For the first time in Armenia, the internationally recognized Data Science event, the PyData Yerevan 2022, a 2-day event with Talks, Tutorials, keynote speakers, and community events, is edging closer to its destination. On August 12-13, the event will bring together over 40 accomplished speakers from around the world to share experiences and for attendees…
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PyData Yerevan 5th Meetup | Fine-Tuning Methods for Text-to-Image Models We are excited to share that PyData Yerevan Meetups are returning! During the 5th #PyDataYVN meetup, Arman Chopikyan, an ML Science team lead at Picsart with extensive experience in computer vision, will give a talk on “Fine-tuning methods for text-to-image models”. Modern text-to-image models such as…
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PyData Yerevan October 2023 | Monthly Meetup After a short break, PyData Yerevan monthly meetups are back with a row of insightful talks from foreign and local industry experts! Thanks to PMI Science R&D Center in Armenia for sponsoring PyData Yerevan meetups. Meet the first esteemed PyData Yerevan speaker, Gábor Szárnyas, a Developer Relations Advocate…
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Are you ready for the next PyData Yerevan November 2023 meetup? If you have ever thought about how to prepare your own speech dataset with the help of Internet data, then we have amazing news for you! Join us, as Nikolay Karpov, a Senior Research Scientist in the fields of speech recognition and NLP at…
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We are happy to announce the last PyData Yerevan December meetup of 2023! Vahan Huroyan, a Machine Learning Researcher at the YerevaNN research lab, will feature a talk on “Recent Developments in Self-Supervised Learning for Computer Vision.” During the talk, he will provide an overview of the latest developments in self-supervised learning (SSL) for computer…
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PyData Yerevan January 2024 - Performance of Vector Databases We are happy to announce that the PyData Yerevan meetup talk series is back for 2024! 🚀 Join us for the “Performance of Vector Databases” talk featuring Egor Romanov, Software Engineer at Supabase. The talk will delve into the performance, challenges, and potentialities of vector databases…
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Announcing PyData Yerevan February 2024 meetup! This time, the meetup will host Dr. Alkesei Gorin, a Neurobiologist and Senior Scientist at Emonomy, who will deliver a talk on “Machine Learning Approaches in Neuroscience.” Along with the growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies, neurobiologists are adopting modern machine learning techniques to tackle a broad…
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PyData Yerevan is announcing its PyData Yerevan March 2024 meetup! The upcoming #PyDataYVN meetup will feature a talk on “Langchain: A Framework for Building Large Language Model Apps” by Karen Javadyan, Software Engineer at Snowflake, and Dr. Gor Hayrapetyan, Lead/Senior Data Engineer at Microsoft, Estonia. The landscape of Large Language Models (LLM) and the libraries…
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PyData Yerevan is announcing PyData Yerevan April 2024 Meetup! With the “LLM-Generated Text Detection” talk, Yuri Orshulevich, Senior NLP Engineer at SuperAnnotate, will emphasize the importance of distinguishing machine-generated vs human-written text by exploring possible problems and ways to avoid them. In the evolving AI and NLP landscape, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs)…
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PyData Yerevan June 2024 invites you to the Open Source Sprint aimed at contributing to pandas! pandas is a data-wrangling platform for Python widely adopted in the scientific computing community. What to expect during the Sprint?This Newcomer Sprint will guide you as a new contributor on how you can make your own contributions to the open-source…
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Join PyData Yerevan July 2024 for a talk on “How to Build an LLM for Math Reasoning without Proprietary Data?” featuring Ivan Moshkov, Deep Learning Engineer at NVIDIA, and Daria Gitman, Conversational AI Research Intern at NVIDIA. Recent research has shown the value of synthetically generated datasets in training #LLMs to acquire targeted skills. Current…
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PyData Yerevan October 2024 announces the meetup of its new series! Aleksandr Sarachakov, Biomedical Imaging Team Lead at BostonGene, will deliver a talk on “Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: Harnessing AI, Zarr, and AnnData for High-Speed Biomedical Imaging.” #Zarr and #AnnData, Python-based technologies, are revolutionizing the landscape of biomedical image processing, especially when paired with self-supervised learning…
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Join us for the PyData Yerevan March 2025 Meetup with Mark Hamazaspyan, ML Team Lead! Topic: Visual Document Retrieval March 20, 2025 | 7:00 pm American University of Armenia, 414W PAB Explore how text & visual embeddings enhance document retrieval! Learn from real-world ColPaLi-style models, tackle multimodal challenges, and boost retrieval accuracy. Ideal for OCR,…
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PyData Yerevan invites you to its PyData Yerevan April 2025! Alexan Hayrapetyan, Conversational AI Intern at Nvidia, and Ara Yeroyan, Individual Contributor, will present a talk on “Methods to Increase the Amount of Data for Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Languages.” Low-resource languages like Armenian often lack the volume of labeled data needed for effective speech…
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PyData Yerevan May 2025 PyData Yerevan is back with a May meetup you won’t want to miss! We’re excited to host Mohamed Rashad, Co-Founder & Engineering Lead at Hyperion, who’ll dive into: "Taking AI Agents from Prototype to Production" Mohamed will share what it actually takes to bring AI agents to life in production. Expect…
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PyData Yerevan June 2025 is coming. Machine learning doesn’t stop at deployment - especially when the data keeps changing. At our June PyData Yerevan meetup, we’re diving into concept drift and how to stay ahead of it. Join Gurgen Hovakimyan, Staff R&D Engineer at Synopsys, as he reveals how to go beyond static models and…
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It’s Monday morning - but we’ve got news worth waking up for: PyData Yerevan July 2025 meetup is coming soon! This time, we’ll explore how #NLP can help make sense of real-world, messy product data with Arsine Sarikyan & Levon Chukhajyan from Mindwise Information Technology LLC. Their talk will walk us through a practical pipeline…
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Open Source Sprint Pandas Remember when we said something exciting is coming for Python lovers in Yerevan? Well, here it is. PyData Yerevan is hosting an Open Source Sprint focused on contributing to pandas - one of the most widely used Python libraries for data analysis. Whether you're completely new to open source or have…
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At our PyData Yerevan September 2025 meetup, we’ll explore the very first generative AI task - translation - and what it takes to verify AI when it gets things wrong. Hundreds of millions of words are translated by AI every day. But how do we know if they’re right? Speaker: Adam BittlingmayerOnce part of the Google Translate team,…
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Join us at PyData Yerevan October 2025 to learn new ways of thinking about forecasting and uncertainty. Data models are great at predicting patterns - but what about events that have never happened before? At the October PyData Yerevan meetup, Nikolai Semiachkin will talk about how LLMs and prediction markets can help estimate probabilities for…
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