If you are interested in privacy-preserving clinical NLP, we are recruiting a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh! The work is on LLMs/VLMs, AI privacy, and real-world health data in secure research environments.
Apply by April 6th, 2026!
More details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris.
After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.
Kaggle competition for "Airborne Object Recognition Challenge"
@kaggle.com seriously? Are you really hosting an "object recognition" challenge with classes which include "plane,drone,human,ship" and goals which include "identifying objects of interest in operational contexts"?
We are advertising a postdoc position to work on #generative #models, #structure #induction, and MI #estimation with Michael Gutmann as part of @genaihub.bsky.social !
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Get in touch! (#ML #AI)
๐ homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/snaraya3/
๐ michaelgutmann.github.io
๐งตNew paper: "Lost in Backpropagation: The LM Head is a Gradient Bottleneck"
The output layer of LLMs destroys 95-99% of your training signal during backpropagation, and this significantly slows down pretraining ๐
In light of the current funding situation (worldwide), a modest proposal: instead of pouring billions of dollars into GenAI claiming "it *could* accelerate science and research," consider putting 1% of that amount in what *will* accelerate science and research. Namely, funding science and research.
Is this the intrinsic dimension of network activations at a particular layer?
Congratulations!! ๐
We will be running the 13th iteration of the workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) at CVPR this summer. We have an open call for papers that explore questions in visual recognition.
Please see our website for more information:
sites.google.com/view/fgvc13/...
Fantastic opportunity to work on #reliable #LLMs in Edinburgh! Antonio is phenomenal and super fun to work with!
Introducing Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models built by "byteifying" our open Olmo 3โand to our knowledge, the first fully open byte-level LM to match or surpass SOTA subword models across a wide range of tasks. ๐งต
๐ฃ PhD opening โ Fall 2026
The DUCK Lab @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student to join us!
Why ๐ฆ? We work on foundational aspects of #neurosymbolicAI and #SafeAI.
๐ DUCK = Data, Uncertainty, Constraints & Knowledge
๐ฉ Apply by emailing: e.giunchiglia@imperial.ac.uk
I will be presenting this work from 11AM-2PM at #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego today! Come by poster #2012 to learn more :)
At #EMNLP2025 to present the last chapter of my PhD ๐ผ
Let's talk #HateSpeech detection, generalisation and NLP safety at my poster:
๐tomorrow
๐4.30pm
Look for the circus-themed poster ๐ช๐คธ๐ปโโ๏ธ
Work with @tomsherborne.bsky.social @bjoernross.bsky.social and Mirella Lapata at #EdinburghNLP + @cohere.com
I would grab this opportunity and go full VC; I would rephrase the above as multi-label classification with labels: possible / sensical / dystopian and require that the candidates shatter the AI startups
I am hiring a fully-funded #PhD in #ML to work at the University of Edinburgh on ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ and ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
Application deadline: 31 Dec '25. Starts May/Sep '26.
Details in the reply.
Pls RT and share with anyone interested!
A clear view of Edinburgh castle
Servers are back online
A picture of a foggy street
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
An apple, two pears and a banana positioned in a way the looks like a smiley face
Just submitted an application, picked up a banana and was greeted by:
Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026?
My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.
For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod
LLM log probs approx lie on low dimensional ellipses which are hard to "forge", check out Matt's cool work :)
A woman with short brown hair smiles while sitting on a curved, light-wood bench. She wears a blue plaid suit and colorful socks. A blue wall with red circles behind her adds a modern touch to the indoor setting.
Weโre excited to see @nsaphra.bsky.socialโs work featured in @quantamagazine.bsky.socialโ& even more excited that she will be joining the CDS faculty in 2026!
Read about Naomi's research via @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social spr.ly/63323AbqfH
๐ธ Ken Richardson
The one I haven't decoded yet is why it would say bee in Italian, maybe it was a warning.
Then, 5 minutes before the ICLR deadline, it surprised me with motivation in Greek (Ela! means Come on!).
Tiles for three authors on Overleaf that spell out "ALE", as in beer.
The best feature of overleaf is the subliminal messages it produces by choosing how to order the author tiles.
It was a long day, and Overleaf was like, maybe you should go to the pub!
It's been a while, but I am happy to share that my PhD dissertation is finally available online! ๐
Not only it contains most of my work, but there is plenty of brand new content:
publikationen.sulb.uni-saarland.de/handle/20.50...
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At #ACL2025NLP and on the job market (NLP + AI Safety) ๐ผ
It's great to see growing interest in safety/alignment, but we often miss the social context.
Come to our @woahworkshop.bsky.social Friday to dive deeper into safe safety research!
A quiet token from the biggest @aclmeeting.bsky.social โฌ๏ธ
Next week I will be in ๐ด Rio ๐ด attending (and helping organizing) UAI 2025 and TPM 2025.
If you are also attending and want to talk science (e.g. probabilistic generative models, causality, multi-objective machine learning, etc) or just hang out, not everything is work, feel free to reach me out!
