Full Program

Lecture 1/3 "The AI-driven Hospital of the Future"

Lecture 2/3 "Foundations of Attention Mechanisms and Transformers"

Coffee break

Lecture 3/3 "AI Safety: Challenges and Solutions"

Lecture TBA

Lunch

Lecture 1/3 “Harnessing Low Dimensionality in Diffusion Models – Generalizability”

Lecture 2/3 “Harnessing Low Dimensionality in Diffusion Models – Controllability”

Lecture 3/3 “Harnessing Low Dimensionality in Diffusion Models – AI For Science”

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https://big-files.icas.cc/Sven-Giesselbach-Multi-Agent-System-IAISS-2025.mp4[/embed]" test=""]Lecture 2/3 "Multi-Agent System"   

Free Time

Dinner

Lecture 1/3 "Foundations of GNN Expressiveness"

Lecture 2/3 "Beyond Standard GNNs: Increasing Expressiveness"

Coffee break

Lecture 3/3 "Expressiveness of GNNs in Practice"

Lecture “Introduction to Data Analytics for Networks – a Historical Perspective and Major Advances”

Lunch

Lecture “Embedding Nodes and Whole Graphs: A Statistical View on Learning from Networked Data”

Lecture 3/3 "Applications of Foundation Models"

Coffee break

Lecture 1/3 "Introduction to Graph Neural Networks"   

Lecture 2/3 "Graph Neural Networks for Physical Simulation"   

Lecture 3/3 "Compositional World Models"   

Dinner

Lecture 1/3 "Fundamental of RL for LLMs"

Lecture 2/3 "RL fine-tuning, then and now"

Lecture 3/3 "Advanced RL fine-tuning and metacognition"

Lecture 1/3 "Self-supervised Learning 1"

Lecture 2/3 "Self-supervised Learning 2"

Lunch

Lecture 3/3 "Vision-Language Learning"

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Coffee break

Lecture 1/3 "From GANs to Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis "

Lecture 2/3 "Control and Guidance in Diffusion Models"

Lecture 3/3 "Conditional Generation of Multimodal Data "

Social Dinner

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Lecture 3/4 "Vision and VLMs Part 1"

Coffee break

Lecture 4/4 "Vision and VLMs Part 2"

Lecture 1/3 "SynthID: A Watermark for AI-generated Text"

Lunch

Lecture 2/3 "AlphaEvolve: AI for Mathematical and Algorithmic Discoveries"

Lecture 3/3 "Large Language Models: History to Present"

Lecture 1/3 "Diffusion Models"

Lecture 2/3 "Flow Matching"

Lecture 3/3 "Generative Models for Molecular Science"

Poster Session

Dinner