Università degli Studi di Pavia

Facoltà di Ingegneria


Artificial Intelligence

Reading Group

Since 2013

Episodes (in reverse chronological order):



  1. 2023.05.26 Ph.D. Program in Electronics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering - University of Pavia

    Probabilistic Graphical Models and Causal Inference

    Episode 3: Structural Causal Models (from Interventions to Counterfactuals) [pdf]

    - Berkeley Admission test (path-specific) [xdsl]
  2. 2023.05.04 Ph.D. Program in Electronics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering - University of Pavia

    Probabilistic Graphical Models and Causal Inference

    Episode 2: Causal Graphical Models [pdf]

    Examples with "GeNIe" (free academic version) available at BayesFusion llc [link]:
    - Berkeley Admission test [xdsl]
    - Berkeley Admission test (modified) [xdsl]
    - Berkeley dataset [csv]

  3. 2023.04.27 Ph.D. Program in Electronics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering - University of Pavia

    Probabilistic Graphical Models and Causal Inference

    Episode 1: Probabilistic Graphical Models [pdf]

  4. 2020.07.10 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2020

    Episode 4, Part 1: TensorFlow Basics [pdf]

  5. 2020.07.07 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2020

    Episode 3: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [pdf]

  6. 2020.07.03 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2020

    Episode 2: The Quest for Deeper Networks [pdf]

  7. 2020.06.30 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2020

    Episode 1: Artificial Neural Networks [pdf]

  8. 2020.06.30 - 2018.07.24 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2020
    Detailed Syllabus [pdf]

  9. 2019.05.20 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2019

    Exercises for laboratory activity [BitBucket]

  10. 2019.05.17 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2019

    Episode 4: TensorFlow Basics - Part 1 [pdf]
    Episode 4: TensorFlow Basics - Part 2 [pdf]

  11. 2019.05.13 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2019

    Episode 3: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [pdf]

  12. 2019.05.10 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2019

    Episode 2: The Quest for Deeper Networks [pdf]

  13. 2019.05.03 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2019

    Episode 1: Artificial Neural Networks [pdf]

  14. 2019.05.03 - 2018.06.10 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course, 2019
    Detailed Syllabus [pdf]

  15. 2018.06.07 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow
    A Short Course for PhD Students


    Submission of Project Proposals [pdf]
    Exercises for laboratory activity [BitBucket]

  16. 2018.05.25 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow
    A Short Course for PhD Students


    Episode 4: TensorFlow Basics - Part 1 [pdf]
    Episode 4: TensorFlow Basics - Part 2 [pdf]

  17. 2018.05.18 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course
    Episode 3: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [pdf]

  18. 2018.05.11 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course
    Episode 2: The Quest for Deeper Networks [pdf]

  19. 2018.05.04 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course
    Episode 1: Artificial Neural Networks [pdf]

  20. 2018.05.04 - 2018.06.14 Ph.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science - University of Pavia

    Deep Learning and TensorFlow - A Short Course
    Detailed Syllabus [pdf]

  21. 2018.01.25

    Marco Piastra [email]
    Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    Smart inventory management: Will Deep Reinforcement Learning help us win the game? [pdf]
    In collaboration with Ariadne Srl
    An experimental application of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to a specific e-commerce problem.

  22. 2017.06.16

    Marco Piastra [email]
    Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    Deep Learning: a theoretical introduction
    A short course for PhD students.
    Episode 3: a bag of wonderful tricks [pdf]
    Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN); basic principles and gradient computations; layer-oriented analysis; image generation; abstraction: what kind of information is represented at each layer; variants and applications; Deep Learning for non-imaging applications.

  23. 2017.06.09

    Marco Piastra [email]
    Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    Deep Learning: a theoretical introduction
    A short course for PhD students.
    Episode 2: the turning point [pdf]
    Probabilistic approach; undirected graphical model; Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM); Deep Boltzmann Machines (DBM); Deep Belief Network as an approximation to DBM; deep autoencoders and associative memory; generative model.

  24. 2017.05.26

    Marco Piastra [email]
    Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    Deep Learning: a theoretical introduction
    A short course for PhD students.
    Episode 1: what we already knew [pdf]
    A review the basic definitions for feed-forward neural networks; formal results related; potential advantages of deep network architectures; ensuing problems for automatic learning.

  25. 2015.10.02

    Edoardo Maria Ponti [email]
    Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
    Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    Machine Learning techniques applied to dependency parsing
    [pdf]

  26. 2015.03.27

    Andrea Pedrini [email]
    Dipartimento di Matematica "Federigo Enriques"
    Università degli Studi di Milano

    The Hidden Topology of a Noisy Point Cloud
    (Part III) [pdf]

    A critical reading of "Geometric Inference for Probability Measures" by Chazal, Steiner & Merigot, 2011.

  27. 2015.03.20

    Andrea Pedrini [email]
    Dipartimento di Matematica "Federigo Enriques"
    Università degli Studi di Milano

    The Hidden Topology of a Noisy Point Cloud
    (Part I) [pdf] and (Part II) [pdf]

    A critical reading of "Geometric Inference for Probability Measures" by Chazal, Steiner & Merigot, 2011.

  28. 2014.02.14

    Giacomo Parigi [email]
    Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    Improving the Machine Interpretation of Internet Posts
    (Part II)
    [pdf]
    Extraction of a lightweight, domain independent semantic network from the Wikipedia categorization system

  29. 2014.01.31

    Giacomo Parigi [email]
    Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    Improving the Machine Interpretation of Internet Posts
    (Part I)
    [pdf]
    Extraction of a lightweight, domain independent semantic network from the Wikipedia categorization system

  30. 2013.06.07

    Giulia Matrone [email]
    Laboratorio di Bioingegneria 2
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    Modeling and simulation of 3D ultrasound imaging systems with integrated micro-beamforming electronics [pdf]

  31. 2013.05.31

    Marco Piastra [email]
    Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    The Connections: point clouds, offset, homotopy type, Delaunay complex, critical function and all that… [pdf]
    A few observations about the relevance of "The Hidden Topology of a Point Cloud" (see below) for effective algorithms

  32. 2013.05.17

    Andrea Pedrini [email]
    Dipartimento di Matematica "Federigo Enriques"
    Università degli Studi di Milano

    The Hidden Topology of a Point Cloud (Part II) [pdf]

  33. 2013.02.22

    Andrea Pedrini [email]
    Dipartimento di Matematica "Federigo Enriques"
    Università degli Studi di Milano

    The Hidden Topology of a Point Cloud (Part I) [pdf]

  34. 2013.01.18

    Laura Brandolini [email]
    Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab
    Università degli Studi di Pavia

    A Discrete Approach to Reeb Graph Computation and Surface Mesh Segmentation: Theory and Algorithm [pdf]

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