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Beatrix M. G. Nielsen @beatrixmgn.bsky.social · 5h

So if you did not have the opportunity to come by at ACL in Vienna then here is your second chance! :D
Hope to see you there! eurips.cc/ellis.

ELLIS UnConference - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe

A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Beatrix M. G. Nielsen @beatrixmgn.bsky.social · 5h

Good news everyone!
I’ll be presenting the paper I did with Marco and Iuri "Prediction Hubs are Context-Informed Frequent tokens in LLMs" at the ELLIS UnConference on December 2nd in Copenhagen. arxiv.org/abs/2502.10201

Prediction hubs are context-informed frequent tokens in LLMs

Hubness, the tendency for a few points to be among the nearest neighbours of a disproportionate number of other points, commonly arises when applying standard distance measures to high-dimensional dat...

arxiv.org

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 2d

How can we make AI explanations provably correct — not just convincing? 🤔

Join us for the Theory of Explainable Machine Learning Workshop, part of the ELLIS UnConference Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Dec 2, co-located with #EurIPS.

🕒 Call for contributions open until Oct 15 (AoE)
🔗 eurips.cc/ellis

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 8d

🚀 Applications for the @ellis.eu PhD Program 2025 are now open!
Join Europe’s leading network in AI & Machine Learning research,🌍
📚 Choose among three collaboration pathways: Academic, Industry, or Interdisciplinary. 🗓️ Apply by Oct 31, 2025 🔗 ellis.eu/phd-program

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 13d

✨ EurIPS registration is now open! Get one of the 1,500 tickets available. 500 tickets are discounted for students 🎓.

In Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Dec 2-7, 2025.

❗ Entrance to the ELLIS UnConference is free with a #EurIPS ticket.

Get your ticket now: https://eurips.cc/

@euripsconf.bsky.social

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 14d

🏹 Job alert: Several fully-funded open Post-Doc positions for 'AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics' at @unituebingen.bsky.social

📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Oct 28th (unless filled before)
🔗 ellis.eu/jobs/ai-for-...

AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 19d

Without any theory, machine learning has evolved a universal theory of data representation. Can we post-hoc rationalize it with math?

Boxes of numbers

Machine learning's universal theory of data representation

www.argmin.net

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations to everyone who got their @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers accepted 🎉🎉🎉

At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Sep 1

- Fully funded PhD fellowship on Explainable NLU: apply by 31 October 2025, start in Spring 2026: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

- Open-topic PhD positions: express your interest through ELLIS by 31 October 2025, start in Autumn 2026: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

#NLProc #XAI

PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding Department of Computer Science Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD f

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · Aug 28

I wrote about the tragic death of Adam Raine and the venal negligence of "AI Safety." www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...

The Banal Evil of AI Safety

Chatbot companies are harmful and dishonest. How can we hold them accountable?

www.argmin.net

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Aug 29

🎓 Interested in a #PhD in machine learning or #AI? The ELLIS PhD Program connects top students with leading researchers across Europe. The application portal opens on Oct 1st. Curious? Join our info session on the same day. Get all the info 👉

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI researchers. ELLIS also aims to boost economic growt...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Aug 22

I've been using Kagi for over a year as my default search engine. It's excellent.

Kagi HQ @kagi.com · Aug 22

"Paying for search changes the whole relationship between user, provider, search, and advertisers (the latter now being completely absent). It changes whom the provider is beholden to, their priorities, and ultimately search itself."

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Why You Should Give Kagi A Try | Optional

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Aug 5

Direct your research. Forge lifelong connections. Apply for the 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent PhD graduates with quantitative and computational skills interested in theoretical collaborative research.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · Aug 4

The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs

The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...

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Beatrix M. G. Nielsen @beatrixmgn.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you to everyone who came to talk to us at ACL!

Very happy that so many people are interested in our work :D

If you didn’t manage to have a look yet: This work is relevant if you want to compare representations in language models, and it can be read here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.10201

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Jul 23

🏹 Job alert: Postdoc in Machine Learning (basic research) at @istaresearch.bsky.social in the group of Christoph Lampert (@mlcv-at-ista.bsky.social)

📍Klosterneuburg 🇦🇹
📅 Apply asap
🔗 More info: cvml.ista.ac.at/Postdoc-ML.h...

Machine Learning and Computer Vision Group -- Christoph Lampert -- ISTA

Computer Vision and Machine Learning, ISTA: open postdoc positions, Machine Learning, curiosity-driven, fully-funded

cvml.ista.ac.at

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Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com · Jul 21

Open PhD positions in Denmark! daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...

If you want to apply to work with me and Johannes Bjerva at @aau.dk Copenhagen, I'll be at @ic2s2.bsky.social this week and @aclmeeting.bsky.social next week! DM me if you'd like to meet :)

Dara

daracademy.dk

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅

EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu

eurips.cc

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Stas Syrota @mustas.bsky.social · Jul 14

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🚨 New paper at #ICML2025!
Identifying Latent Metric Structures in Deep Latent Variable Models 🎉
We solve part of the identifiability puzzle in generative models — using geometry. 🧵

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Beatrix M. G. Nielsen @beatrixmgn.bsky.social · Jul 7

We will present the poster on Wednesday 30th of July between 11.00 and 12.30.

If you are in Vienna, let's have a chat about representations in language models and how and when it makes sense to compare them :)

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Beatrix M. G. Nielsen @beatrixmgn.bsky.social · Jul 7

Our paper "Prediction Hubs are Context-Informed Frequent Tokens in LLMs" has been accepted at ACL 2025!

Main points:
1. Hubness is not a problem when language models do next-token prediction.
2. Nuisance hubness can appear when other comparisons are made.

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UniReps @unireps.bsky.social · Apr 1

📢 We are thrilled to introduce the ELLIS (@ellis.eu) x UniReps Speaker Series!📢

🔵🔴 Each monthly session features a 40-min Keynote talk and a 20min-Flash talk.

📜 You can nominate yourself or another researcher as a speaker by filling out the nomination form: forms.gle/EbHatQW7zoVi...

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · Mar 30

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

NeurIPS participation in Europe

We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

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Pioneer Centre for AI @aicentre.dk · Mar 28

DTU Compute is looking for an attractive group leader Tenure Track Assistant / Associate Professor in AI. The position comes with a start package funded by @aicentre.dk and will allow you to establish a group of junior scientists.

📅 Application deadline 30 April 2025
👉https://lnkd.in/dQxZ4hVh

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