Tips

If you are interested in joining the journal club, please send an email to . We will send you an invite to our Discord channel. Check out our LinkedIn group as well.

Logistics

  • We meet every last Thursday of the month between 6 pm and 8 pm. Meeting announcement is done through our Discord channel. The schedule can change based on the members’ availability.
  • We usually meet at one of the many branches in Austin Public Library.

Presentation

  • We take turns to present a paper.
  • When announcing what to read, we encourage the presenter to write a few sentences on “why this paper” to motivate others.
  • It doesn’t have to be a paper. It can be a blog post, newspaper article, or even a tool documentation page. We can also use the journal club as a brainstorming session if the presenter wants to discuss a specific work problem they want to talk about.
  • Every presenter will be introduced in the About page with a short bio. Participants will be mentioned in the posts.
  • Presenters don’t have to know everything about the paper, but they should have enough understanding to lead the discussion.

Guidelines for choosing papers

Reading papers takes a great deal of time. To respect everyone’s time, please consider the following criteria when choosing papers:

  • Papers that are published or peer-reviewed
  • Papers about ideas that are discussed frequently in ML community
  • Papers with high citation counts
  • Papers from renowned research groups
  • Papers that are not too niche in terms of their domain
  • Papers that are not too long
  • Papers that have many interesting discussing points; this means you can choose a bad paper intentionally

Feel free to share any papers of interest in Discord. We will regularly update our Reading List page to track them.

Communication

  • All major correspondence is made in the Discord channel.
  • Meetings are announced in the Discord channel and LinkedIn group.
  • Presenters should give others at least 2 weeks to read the paper.
  • Please notify on Discord about whether you can come next time before the meeting.

Blogging

  • Presenters are welcome to write a blog post about the paper they presented.
  • The blog is hosted through GitHub pages from our repository and we use the Quarto platform.
  • You can write about anything in the post as long as it captures some of our discussion during the meeting.
  • Blogging is optional. If the presenter is too busy to write the post, Hongsup will write a post instead, or he will suggest the presenter to write it together.