Symmetry is the fundamental property of crystals, yet generative models don't yield crystals with true symmetries
We solved that with SymmCD and can get crystals from any of the 230 space groups

Learn more at our #ICLR poster w/ @dnllvy.bsky.social @sibasmarak.bsky.social!

arxiv.org/abs/2502.03638

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️

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Screenshot of Google docs generative AI agent asking me to Rephrase, Shorten, Elaborate, More formal.

Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

Diffusion models for crystals show great promise, but mostly don't generate samples with realistic symmetries—a defining property of crystals!
We tackled this with SymmCD, leveraging space groups, Wyckoff positions and asymmetric units. Catch @dnllvy.bsky.social spotlight at AI4Mat to learn more 🌟

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"

(more examples below)

Delighted to be in Leeds joining the School of Computing! Fantastic first impressions — like a "less offensive London" (youtu.be/watch?v=_6_VVLgrgFI). Stay tuned for a PhD position starting next October. Meanwhile, drop me a message with your CV and research interests—I'd love to hear from you!

congratulations, @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social, for the test-of-time award at @neuripsconf.bsky.social!

this award reminds me of how GAN started with this one email ian sent to the Mila (then Lisa) lab mailing list in May 2014. super insightful and amazing execution!