Welcome at the Big Data Infrastructures Research Group at the (BDI) at the Institute of Computer Science in Vorarlberg (ICV-HSG).
We on the merged path of Big Data Machine Learning and Large Deep Learning Models. Both require massive amounts of storage, compute, and management. At the BDI-Group we are focusing on special research that runs in the middle of these paths but we're asking "Do we really need such big models?" and "Is the current approach to increase the with, add more parameters, or multiply the non-linearities really the best approach?". Another idea might be Specialized Models that are trained not with the boring SGD but more sophisticated methods.
With our industry partners, we are laying the groundwork for integrating bleeding-edge research into their applied day-to-day Machine Learning pipelines.