Ongoing & Upcoming Courses
Winter term 2025/2026 (see StudIP to sign up and for materials)
Vorlesung: KI: Transformer der Informatik (De)
Mo 12:00-14:00
Tutorium: Mo/Di 16:00-18:00
Studierende werden einen grundlegenden Überblick darüber erhalten wie KI die Methodik der Informatik (und darüber hinaus) verändert und Anwendungen eröffnet: Bildgebende Verfahren, Sprache, Programmieren, Datenschutz, Ethik, Nachhaltigkeit, Hardware, KI + Wissenschaft, etc.
Lecture: Deep Generative Models (En)
Thu 10:00-12:00
Tutorials: Mon 10:00-12:00
The course will span materials on why generative models are critical, independently of whether the goal is to arrive at a decision or to generate data. We will cover the different ways to design generative models and respective mathematical tools necessary for understanding
Seminar: Advances in Lifelong Learning Machines (En)
Mon 14:00-16:00
Throughout the seminar, students will engage with modern literature that
advances the frontiers of lifelong learning machines. They will improve their presentation skills, navigating scientific works, inspect the newest
algorithms, and identify persisting limitations and open research questions.
Blockkurs: Propädeutikum Python (De)
23.03.2026 – 27.03.2026
Studierende lernen in Python geschriebene Programme zu lesen, zu verstehen und auszuführen. Sie lernen die Grundlagen von Datentypen, Funktionen, und Array Operationen, Umsetzung von mathematischen Beschreibungen, Visualisierung, und erste Schnittstellen kennen.
Summer term 2025
Lecture: Life-long Machine Learning (En)
Mon 16:00-18:00 & Wed 10:00-12:00
Whereas machine learning has traditionally concentrated on static pre-defined training datasets and respective test scenarios, recent advances also take into account the fact that the world is constantly evolving. The course traverses the fundamentals of lifelong machine learning, spanning methodology of how to effectively learn in the present, remember the past, and anticipate an unknown future.
Seminar: Modern Perspectives on AI Sustainability (En)
Thu 10:00-12:00
The seminar covers different aspects of AI sustainability. Students will get to engage with a variety of modern perspectives. Throughout the seminar, they will learn to critically engage with current assessments on AI’s impact, analyze the validity of claims with respect to economical, environmental and social sustainability, and separate opportunities from unaddressed harms.
Project: MOCCA – summer 25 & winter 25/26 (En)
Plenum on Fri 10:00-12:00
In the Multi-Objective Continual Coffee Automation (MOCCA) student project, we will make use of various machine learning tools to go from a package of coffee beans to drinks that are catered to individual preferences. This involves several crucial steps that will be pursued in the project, spanning data acquisition & dataset creation, continual machine learning, inclusion of preferences and natural language feedback.
Previous Courses
Course: Continual Machine Learning – Summer 2024
Course 20-00-1135-vl to teach the foundations of lifelong and continual machine learning at TU Darmstadt.
Offered in person at TU Darmstadt every Friday from 14:25 to 16:05 CEST from April 19th until July 19th, 2024. See TUCAN for full details.
Tutorial: Pillars of Forgetting & Lifelong Evaluation at DAICOW-MICCAI 2023
A 30 min tutorial that provides the intuition behind techniques to mitigate forgetting and evaluation. Presented at DAICOW: The 1st MICCAI Tutorial on Dynamic and Continual AI for Medical Imaging. Recording available.
Summer School: Machine Learning Beyond Static Datasets – ESSAI 2023
A five day course offered at ESSAI 2023 from July 24th to July 28th in Ljubljana, Slovenia in a hybrid format. Lectures have been recorded as part of the summer school and are publicly available on their platform (materials & links provided on the course page)
Course: Continual Machine Learning – Summer 2023
Second iteration of the Course 20-00-1135-vl, offered in person at TU Darmstadt every Friday from 14:25 to 16:05 CEST from April 14th until July 14th, 2023. Materials largely analogous and slightly updated to the previously offered “Open World Lifelong Learning” on YouTube, with recordings and materials available publicly, see below.
Course: Continual Machine Learning – Summer 2022
Course 20-00-1135-vl offered in person at TU Darmstadt, every Friday from 14:25 to 16:05 CEST from April 22nd until July 15th. Offered as “Open World Lifelong Learning” on YouTube, lecture recordings and materials are public on the course webpage. A playlist of all videos is also available through the ContinualAI Youtube channel.
