Welcome to the Evolution & Deep Learning Reading Group!
We meet every two weeks on Wednesdays at 3:00 PM ET.
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2026 Meetings
| Presenter | Date | Title | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caleb Charpentier | February 25, 2026 | Identifying variation in dinosaur footprints and classifying problematic specimens via unbiased unsupervised machine learning | — |
| Caleb Charpentier | March 11, 2026 | A deep learning approach for morphological feature extraction based on variational auto-encoder: an application to mandible shape | — |
| Arthur Porto | April 1, 2026 | ATLAS Demo | — |
| Caleb Charpentier | April 22, 2026 | Disentangling genotype and environment specific latent features for improved trait prediction using a compositional autoencoder | — |
2025 Meetings
| Presenter | Date | Title | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caleb Charpentier | August 1, 2025 | BioEncoder: A metric learning toolkit for comparative organismal biology | — |
| Moritz Lürig | August 22, 2025 | Deep learning reveals the complex genetic architecture of male guppy colouration | — |
| Mridul Khurana | September 3, 2025 | Hierarchical Conditioning of Diffusion Models Using Tree-of-Life for Studying Species Evolution | — |
| Caleb Charpentier | October 1, 2025 | BIOCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning | — |
| Roberta Hunt | October 15, 2025 | Evolving Interpretable Visual Classifiers with Large Language Models | Zoom Recording |
| Caleb Charpentier | Novermber 12, 2025 | Descriptron: Artificial intelligence for automating taxonomic species descriptions with a user-friendly software package | Zoom Recording |
Add any shared materials (papers, slides, notes, etc., that aren't the paper being presented) directly to the Shared Resources folder.
You can also include external links or demos below:
Caleb Charpentier — calebc22@vt.edu — calebcharpentier.com