Thanks Kevin! This is so great and must be very calming to watch.

Google PhD fellowship program The Google PhD Fellowship Program recognizes outstanding graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas.

Applications for the global Google PhD Fellowship Program opens on Apr 10th. Fellowships directly support graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields as they pursue their PhD. Learn more and apply by May 15 at goo.gle/phdfellowship.

Avoiding spurious sharpness minimization broadens applicability of SAM Curvature regularization techniques like Sharpness Aware Minimization (SAM) have shown great promise in improving generalization on vision tasks. However, we find that SAM performs poorly in domains l...

(2/2) Not at UCLA but interested in this topic? Check arxiv.org/abs/2502.02407. Thanks to our fantastic intern Sidak (soon to return full-time!) for leading this project, along with collaborators Yann and Atish. Thanks to my UCLA host @baharanm.bsky.social for the seminar invitation!

(1/2) Ever wondered why Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) yields greater generalization gains in vision than in NLP? I'll discuss this at UCLA's CS-201 seminar on February 18th, relating it to the balance of SAM's impact on logit statistics vs model geometry.
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Congratulations Ev!

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Hi folks! I'm excited to be on BlueSky! I'm looking forward to posting about computer science research, ML, scientific advances, tasty food, nature, and making groan-worthy puns.

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1/2 Just a reminder about Google Research Scholar Program, providing up to $60K unrestricted gifts to recognize early-career professors and support world-class research at institutions around the world. This year, we are particularly interested in the following research areas...

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We'll soon review internship applicants for our reasoning group; please submit and ping me if you haven't already!! Can't wait to work with you!!

Just created the Starter Pack for Optimization Researchers to help you on your journey into optimization! 🚀

Did I miss anyone? Tag them or let me know what to add!

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New starter pack! go.bsky.app/GZ4hZzu

For those who don’t feel like they fit into my Grumpy Machine Learners list (which I still need to update based on 100+ requests) I’ve created another starter pack:

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(Self) nominations welcome.

Just put together a starter pack for Deep Learning Theory. Let me know if you'd like to be included or suggest someone to add to the list!

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Dude! These packs are getting out of control 🤪