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We're looking for a new colleague at @amlab.bsky.social: Assistant Professor in AI for Science ๐ฌ๐ค
World-class ML research, Amsterdam's thriving AI ecosystem (ELLIS, startups, big tech), and some of the best academic labor conditions in Europe โค๏ธ
Deadline: May 30 ๐ werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
TMLR's 2025 annual report! The word of the year is growth: whether it's our number of submissions, published papers, or reviewers, pretty much everything has increased ~50%.
EXCEPT: our review period, which is still shorter than NeurICMLR (91 vs 126 days)
Read on for more! 1/n
2025 was a blockbuster year for TMLR -- big growth from 2024, but also cementing our J2C partnership with NeurICMLR, and launching Beyond PDF.
Also, cutting the cord: with the founding EiCs completing their tenure, I am now the old guy ๐ด
Check out the annual report for more!
We have a postdoc opening on the development of AI methods for accelerating computational fluid mechanics:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon โโ 28 Nov โโ e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
Submit your work on to the @euripsconf.bsky.social workshop on on Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning!
differentiable-systems.github.io/workshop-eur...
Submission: 10 October
Notification: 31 October
Workshop: 6 or 7 December in Copenhagen
At #ICML2025 this week?
Come check out our work on controlled generation, simulation-free latent SDEs, and risk monitoring in test-time adaptation, and chat with the awesome students that made it happen!
#SDE #Diffusion #FlowMatching #TTA #UncertaintyQuantification
Are you interested in improving the #interpretability, #robustness and #safety of current AI systems with #causality and #RL?
Apply to our PhD position in Amsterdam ๐ฒ๐ท๐ณ๐ฑ
Deadline: June 15
๐ณ Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching
By @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social , @zmheiko.bsky.social ,
@sharvaree.bsky.social , @erikjbekkers.bsky.social ,
@wellingmax.bsky.social , @canaesseth.bsky.social *, @jwvdm.bsky.social *
๐ As above - paper TBA soon ๐
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๐ Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation
By Andrรฉs Guzmรกn-Cordero*, @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social *,
@jwvdm.bsky.social
๐ This paper will be shared soon - keep your eyes open! ๐คฉ
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๐ธ Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems
By @maxxxzdn.bsky.social , @jwvdm.bsky.social , @wellingmax.bsky.social
๐ arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
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Exciting news: AMLab is happy to have 7 papers accepted at #ICML2025! ๐
See the thread below for the full list ๐ and meet us in Vancouver to discuss them further! ๐จ๐ฆ
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๐ฅ 3 Best Paper Awards for AMLab members!
1. Towards Variational Flow Matching on General Geometries by @olgatticus.bsky.social et al.
2. Generative Uncertainty in Diffusion Models by @metodjazbec.bsky.social et al.
3. SDE Matching by @gbarto.bsky.social et al.
Congrats to everyone! ๐ฅ
Nice work! We were ourselves also wondering why few approaches seem to consider conditional entropy as a function of time (beyond the time-warping in the work of @sedielem.bsky.social, as you note). Great to see that this can aid generation in other settings as well.
Exciting project in Parkinson's disease! Patrik Verstreken's lab (verstrekenlab.sites.vib.be) and my lab are looking for a postdoc to develop and apply ML methods to the analysis of exciting brain-on-chip data. Please spread the word!
More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...
Our colleagues at Climate AI Nordics are seeking collabroators in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and ร
land ๐ฃ
Please reshare this with your networks if you have colleagues who might be interested in joining this team ๐
CmdStanR v 0.9.0 released! According to Andrew Johnson, this should make Windows installation easier plus many other improvements and bug fixes discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstanr-v...
#Bayesian #MCMC
A class photo in front of the AIMS building in Muizenberg, Cape Town.
A selfie with students at AIMS in Muizenberg, Cape Town.
Just returned from an inspiring three weeks at AIMS (aims.ac.za) in Cape Town, where I taught Generative AI with @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social.
I was really impressed with these students, who are engaged, very hard working, and asked some of the best questions that I have ever had in class!
Excellent work by @maxxxzdn
that uses ideas from computational physics to design scalable transformers!
We are hiring on the Generative Media team in London: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
We work on Imagen, Veo, Lyria and all that good stuff. Come work with us! If you're interested, apply before Feb 28.
Variational Flow Matching goes Riemannian! ๐ฎ
In this preliminary work, we derive a variational objective for probability flows ๐ on manifolds with closed-form geodesics, and discuss some interesting results.
Dream team: Floor, Alison & Erik (their @ below) ๐ฅ
๐ arxiv.org/abs/2502.12981
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Come to #accelerate25 the premier conference on #aiformaterials #selfdrivinglabs #chemsky Please RT
Very excited about this line of work by Jacco, which opens up opportunities for more scalable modeling of fluids at the mesoscopic scale. I think this will be particularly promising in the context of applications to materials design!
๐จ Excited to share our work just published in Physical Review Letters with @wellingmax.bsky.social, @jwvdm.bsky.social, @berndensing.bsky.social, Marjolein Dijkstra and Renรฉ van Roij: doi.org/10.1103/Phys....
Details below ๐
I think that a key difference here may be that RPG mechanics are generally less stochastic than the conference reviewing process.
Join us on 27 Feb in Amsterdam for the ELLIS workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data โจ
sites.google.com/view/rl-and-...
Inspiring talks by @eisenjulian.bsky.social, @neuralnoise.com, Frank Hutter, Vaishali Pal, TBC.
We welcome extended abstracts until 31 Jan!
Open #postdoc position in *Organic/Medicinal Chemistry* for generative #AI in Drug Discovery โ join us @tueindhoven.bsky.social ๐ช๐ป
Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Deadline: Jan 15, 25
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/...
Repost appreciated!
Really enjoyed this talk from Arnaud! It is so refreshing when a speaker focuses on providing a lucid overview of methods and their connections, past and present. Something to aspire to for all of us.
It's located near the west entrance to the west side of the conference center, on the first floor, in case that helps!
When a bunch of diffusers sit down and talk shop, their flow cannot be matched๐
It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!
๐Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!
If you're at #NeurIPS2024, join us this afternoon to talk diffusion, flows and all that jazz. Be there or be non-circular!