AI Tinkerers - Quito Primer Meetup (Abril)
Apr
24
Thursday
5PM GMT-5
Main Stage Speakers
Johana Belén Duchi Tipán
Data Engineer at DataKnow
Modelo de clasificación de imágenes basado en Transformers para la evaluación de daños estructurales post-sísmicos de acuerdo con la Escala Macrosísmica europea: comparativa con técnicas de aprendizaje de máquina
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Contrasting Transformers and CNNs for earthquake damage classification.
PyTorch
Python
DeiT
DenseNet121
Google Colab
Jose Ignacio Naranjo
Independent
from LLMs to reasoning models
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Scaling inference to build practical, efficient reasoning models.
PyTorch
Unsloth
PEFT
HuggingFace TRL
HuggingFace
Danny Diaz
AI Engineer at Entrepreneurship
Can Identity be fine-tuned with QLoRA for an AI Vtuber?
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Fine-tuning unique AI personalities and managing GPU memory efficiently.
LLaMA 3.2
QLoRA
Unsloth Framework
PyTorch
Python
Pablo Carrera Estrada
Software Engineer at Carrera Estrada & Sistemas
Building High-Performance Search Agents: Local Inference with DuckDuckGo and Google Search Integration
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Build fast, cloud-free search agents with local LLM optimization.
llama.cpp
llama-cpp-agents
GGUF
Flash Attention
Gradio
Eric Hartford
Research Scientist in Artificial Intelligence at Lazarus AI
Building a Unified AI Interface: Live Demo of Dolphin MCP's Cross-Provider Tool Orchestration
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Code solutions for handling diverse LLM function calling APIs.
OpenAI API
Anthropic API
Ollama
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
LMStudio SDKs
Sebastian Sarasti
Machine Learning Engineer at Crossbridge
Reinforcement Learning in Action: Building a Q-Learning System for Real-World Inventory Optimization
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Hands-on Q-Learning code for optimizing inventory and handling lead times.
GPT-4
Llama-2
LangChain
PyTorch
OpenAI API