The Remote Sensing lab, researcher Tasos Papazafeiropoulos had the opportunity to attend an inspiring week of lectures at the 2025 ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models (FOMO), in Amsterdam, Netherlands!
📅 When: 18–21 March
🎯 Focus: Foundation Models (https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/ellis/events/2025-ellis-winter-school-on-foundation-models-fomo/)
🤝 Organized by: Prof. Dr. Cees Snoek, Prof. Yuki Asano, and the ELLIS unit Amsterdam
This winter school emerged into the cutting-edge world of foundation models, sharing insights about how to address emerging AI challenges in both academia and industry.
💡 Key Topics Covered:
✅ Multimodal Learning
✅ Vision Language Models & Post-Pretraining in Computer Vision
✅ Scaling Laws, Generalization & Open-Endedness
✅ Diffusion Models
✅ Optimizers
✅ Retrieval Augmented Generation
Beyond the lectures, Tasos engaged in interactive sessions, poster presentations, networked with top experts, and took part in dynamic discussions—making it a week full of learning, innovation, and professional growth!
