Foundation models training

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!