Thursdays, 3:00-4:30 PM. All future sessions are currently on hold pending further announcement.
Reading Club Schedule
Current schedule for the A2I2 AI Reading Club.
This page is primarily for scheduling: people should be able to quickly check when the reading club meets, where it is held, what is coming up next, and what has been covered recently.
Since 2017. Thursdays, 3:00-4:30 PM. NA1.421 Waurn Ponds Campus and Zoom.
Notice: All future sessions from 2 April 2026 onward are currently on hold pending further announcement.
NA1.421, Waurn Ponds Campus, with Zoom support.
AGI, generative AI, measuring intelligence, world models, causal reasoning, AI across scales, scientific discovery, and energy-efficient AI.
2026 Schedule
Upcoming and recent sessions.
Upcoming 2026
28 May 2026
On hold pending further announcement. Previously reserved for Linh La.
21 May 2026
On hold pending further announcement. Previously reserved for Duc Kieu.
14 May 2026
On hold pending further announcement. Previously reserved for Thong Bach.
7 May 2026
On hold pending further announcement. Previously reserved for Dr Dung Nguyen.
30 April 2026
On hold pending further announcement. Previously reserved for Dat Ho.
23 April 2026
On hold pending further announcement. Previously reserved for Tri-Nhan Vo.
16 April 2026
On hold pending further announcement. Previously reserved for Tu Do.
Measuring uncertainty in LLMs
9 April 2026, on hold pending further announcement. Previously scheduled with Manh Nguyen.
Causality and its applications
2 April 2026, on hold pending further announcement. Previously scheduled with Long Tran.
Recent 2026
Vision-language-navigation models
26 March 2026, presented by Quang-Hung Le.
Robustness paradigms for time series forecasting
19 March 2026, presented by Hiep Nguyen.
Model Merging for LLMs
12 March 2026, presented by Giang Do.
Equivariant learning in diffusions
5 March 2026, presented by Dr Phuoc Nguyen.
Recent advances in JEPA
26 February 2026, presented by Dr Romero Morais.
What to expect for AI in near/mid-terms? Surviving and thriving in the new world
19 February 2026, presented by Prof Truyen Tran.
What to expect for AI in near/mid-terms? Mapping the future
12 February 2026, presented by Prof Truyen Tran.
Discrete diffusion models
5 February 2026, presented by Duy Tran.
Memory for long-form video
29 January 2026, presented by Thuc Tran.
What to expect for AI in near/mid-terms? Introducing TRIZ
22 January 2026, presented by Prof Truyen Tran.
Recent advances in world models
15 January 2026, presented by Khoa Le.
Holiday
8 January 2026 and 1 January 2026.
Late 2025
Recent archive from the previous cycle.
18 December 2025
Improving LLM Reasoning with RL Post Training, Dr Hung Le.
11 December 2025
Sample Efficient Training For Large Language Models, Dai Do.
27 November 2025
Molecular Dynamics with ML, Linh La.
20 November 2025
Reasoning with discrete diffusion models, Duc Kieu.
13 November 2025
Deceptive alignment in LLMs, Thong Bach.
6 November 2025
Scientific reasoning, Dr Sherif Abbas.
30 October 2025
Scientific LLMs, Minh Vu and Nam Le.
23 October 2025
Agents modelling others, cont., Dr Dung Nguyen.
9 October 2025
AI for continuum mechanics, Dat Ho.
2 October 2025
Why language models hallucinate, Tri-Nhan Vo.
25 September 2025
Implicit neural representation and function encoder, Tu Do.
18 September 2025
Human-centered and data-driven software debugging, Dr Bach Le, University of Melbourne.
11 September 2025
Principled exploration in generative models, Dr Tri Nguyen.
4 September 2025
Vision language foundation models, Dr Kien Do.