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David Picard

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Professor of Computer Vision/Machine Learning at Imagine/LIGM, École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées @ecoledesponts.bsky.social Music & overall happiness 🌳🪻 Born well below 350ppm 😬 mostly silly personal views 📍Paris 🔗 https://davidpicard.github.io/

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Updated: "How far can we go with ImageNet for Text-to-Image generation?"

TL;DR: train a text2image model from scratch on ImageNet only and beat SDXL.

Paper, code, data available! Reproducible science FTW!
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📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.21318
💻 github.com/lucasdegeorg...
💽 huggingface.co/arijitghosh/...

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 9h

Oui enfin le setup a l'air hyper artificiel quand même...

David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 13h

Ah, so this is what you were talking about! Very interesting.

On this topic, I keep saying to my students: "In the experiments, you should put placeholder figures and start writing the analysis. Essentially, if you're not able to predict results before they arrive, maybe we're not doing science!"

David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 23h

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Monomarchos @monomarchos.agency · 1d

Aujourd’hui, Lecornu a été nommé PM. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J’ai reçu un télégramme de l’asile : « Lecornu nommé. Gouvernement bientôt. Sentiments distingués."

David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 1d

Current mood in France

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Le Gorafi @legorafi.bsky.social · 1d

Pour faciliter l’entrée et la sortie des Premiers ministres, Emmanuel Macron installe une immense chatière à Matignon https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/10/10/pour-faciliter-lentree-et-la-sortie-des-premiers-ministres-emmanuel-macron-installe-une-immense-chatiere-a-matignon/

Pour faciliter l’entrée et la sortie des Premiers ministres, Emmanuel Macron installe une immense chatière à Matignon

Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.

www.legorafi.fr

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 1d

Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.

Today I want to share two new works on this topic:

Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492

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Monomarchos @monomarchos.agency · 1d

Aujourd’hui, Lecornu a été nommé PM. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J’ai reçu un télégramme de l’asile : « Lecornu nommé. Gouvernement bientôt. Sentiments distingués."

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 1d

What is the selling point for dots? Cleaner background with still a bit of help? Maybe I should try dots at some point then. Although I fear my terrible handwriting is going to be even more unreadable without the crutch that are the lines.

David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 1d

You like the dots better than the lines or just blank?

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Libération @liberation.fr · 1d

Démontant un à un les arguments avancés contre la taxe Zucman, l’économiste américain Joseph Stiglitz décrit l’égalité fiscale et la taxation des ultrariches comme des conditions de «la démocratie et de la solidarité sociale».

➡️ bit.ly/3KC9TnI

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#CVPR2026 @cvprconference.bsky.social · 1d

Getting ready to submit to #CVPR2026? Take a moment to review the author guidelines, which include important policy details and NEW updates.

Author Guidelines: cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/...

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 1d

🎶 Quel est le point commun entre le târ iranien et les luth européens ? En quoi le banjo américain témoigne-t-il de la traite des esclaves ? Au Musée de la musique, à Paris, les instruments racontent leurs évolutions et leurs voyages au fil de l’histoire...
👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/lhist...

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats! 🎉

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Ferenc Huszár @inference.vc · 1d

When I applied to PhDs, I could derive the E-M algo
after 5 yrs of uni and I felt I stood out. Many applicants didn’t do much ML before.

This year, Miranda, barely out of high school starts her undergraduate with a NeurIPS spotlight, two AI olympiad medals, having bern to EEML 2x plus AI retreat 😨

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 1d

It's October, enjoy the rusty colors!🍁🍂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ulE...

Type O Negative - October Rust - Limited Orange Release - Side 1 - 180g vinyl - HQ

YouTube video by All Cremated Equally

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congrats! 🎊🎉

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Hilde Kuehne @hildekuehne.bsky.social · 2d

The International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems #IMPRS is currently accepting PhD applications! Join our elite doctoral program to conduct research in machine learning, robotics, HCI, computer vision, and related fields.
imprs.is.mpg.de/application

Deadline: Nov. 16, 2025

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 2d

There is also the converse of paper that just take an existing method, use massive engineering to have it beat SOTA, and never credit the original paper.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I’ll see a paper that implements an idea I’ve had but implements it poorly for engineering reasons. But then it’s hard to write a follow up paper because it’s not “novel” anymore

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Julian Tachella @tachellajulian.bsky.social · 2d

💥 DeepInverse v0.3.5 is out! 💥

docs: deepinv.github.io/deepinv/

github: github.com/deepinv/deep...

DeepInverse: a Python library for imaging with deep learning — deepinv 0.3.4 documentation

deepinv.github.io

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Nico Lang @nicolang.bsky.social · 2d

Working on representation learning for Earth Observation?
Come join the discussion at the EurIPS workshop "REO: Advances in Representation Learning for Earth Observation"

Call for papers deadline: October 15, AoE
Workshop site: sites.google.com/view/reoeurips

@euripsconf.bsky.social @esa.int

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Pierre Beyssac @pierreb.bsky.social · 2d

Pétition "non à #ChatControl" à signer sur le site de l'assemblée nationale. petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Non à Chat Control, outil de surveillance de masse - Non à Chat Control, outil de surveillance de masse - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée nationale

Chers Représentants, Je vous écris pour exprimer mes graves préoccupations concernant la proposition de législation Chat Control (Règlement CSAM) actuellement reconsidérée sous la Présidence danoise ...

petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 2d

We are starting with @sattlertorsten.bsky.social . You still can book a teleport to Prague :)

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 3d

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 2d

sDrive et autres ? Oui. Je clique sur "personnels des unités", je rentre mes identifiants de mon employeur dans Janus et ça marche. Je m'en sers assez souvent d'ailleurs, c'est top !