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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Jun 9

On my way to Nashville for hashtag. #CVPR25; almost ready to dance! We will present "TANGO: Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks" at the main conference (June 15) and at the Embodied AI Workshop (June 12).

If you are in Nashville and want to catch up, DM me here or via email!

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · May 23

This is insane

NPR @npr.org · May 22

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students

International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

www.npr.org

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A. Sophia Koepke @askoepke.bsky.social · Mar 12

Our paper submission deadline for the EVAL-FoMo workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social has been extended to March 19th!
sites.google.com/view/eval-fo...
We welcome submissions (incl. published papers) on the analysis of emerging capabilities / limits in visual foundation models. #CVPR2025

Screenshot of the workshop website "Emergent Visual Abilities and Limits of Foundation Models" at CVPR 2025

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Mar 10

Just a reminder that (very) often this is our outcome... and that this short discussion with Nobel prize Ben Faringa is, to me, one of the best I have ever heard about "failures and perseverance": youtu.be/vpPfb6CscyI?...

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Mar 7

#KostasThoughts: When communicating with conference organizers, start by assuming good intentions and always keep it respectful. Remember, these are real people, volunteering their time and making personal sacrifices to bring everything together.

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is the early version on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10402

TANGO: Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated excellent capabilities in composing various modules together to create programs that can perform complex reasoning tasks on images. In this paper, we pro...

arxiv.org

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Feb 27

I am thrilled to share that TANGO (Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks) finally made it to #CVPR2025!
Super proud of my students F. Ziliotto and T. Campari who made an awesome work. It took two rounds of review, some trouble, and many improvements, but this made the work stronger!

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Ahmad Beirami @abeirami.bsky.social · Feb 23

A good review spells out a paper's contributions & strengths/shortcomings targeted for someone who doesn't work on the problem & has not read the paper!

A good review also gives actionable feedback to improve the work regardless of the accept/reject decision.

Happy reviewing!

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NAVER LABS Europe @naverlabseurope.bsky.social · Feb 21

Welcome to NAVER LABS Europe on Bluesky! We chose 'LABS blue' to kickoff our posts & we'd appreciate it if you could share this one widely tinyurl.com/2nt9jdnv 😊 #hiring #jobs #internships

Ad on research positions and internships at NAVER LABS Europe, Grenoble, France in February 2025

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Feb 10

Happy to give a talk very soon in Florence, in a very familiar place ("my alma mater") with some familiar faces, about our recent works in the embodied computer vision field!

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Jan 22

#ICLR decisions are out! We have a paper on social navigation (this is an early version arxiv.org/abs/2404.11327). Great collaboration with @galasso.bsky.social and his awesome students from Sapienza Univ of Rome

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Jan 20

Still have two missing reviews (that hopefully will be done by heroic emergency reviewers)... I am still against "collective punishment" that would impact other co-authors. But I agree that ghosts are the worst; maybe we could consider individual ban preventing submissions to the next conferences.

Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Jan 19

#KostasThoughts: I’m more convinced than ever that desk rejecting all papers from reviewers who ghost the process should be standard practice. It’s completely unprofessional!

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Jan 18

Shoutout to all our #CVPR2025 emergency reviewers who stepped up when others couldn’t or wouldn’t! 🫡

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Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social · Jan 15

Prof. on website vs Prof. in person

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Dhruv Batra @dhruvbatra.bsky.social · Dec 14

Brilliant talk by Ilya, but he's wrong on one point.

We are NOT running out of data. We are running out of human-written text.

We have more videos than we know what to do with. We just haven't solved pre-training in vision.

Just go out and sense the world. Data is easy.

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Dec 14

Congratulations to our fresh CS graduates! They both did a great job at the intersection between vision and language.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Dec 12

Calling all ELLIS PhDs & Postdocs!

Join the #ELLISWinterSchool in Brunico 🇮🇹 on Jan 27-31, 2025 for lectures on Multimodal Learning, with a focus: Generative Models, Embodied AI & Sustainability.

Apply via elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-...

#MachineLearning #AI

ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025 | elias-aiEvent Location and ExperienceWinter School Event Footer

elias-ai.eu

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Dec 11

Congratulations Sara! Well deserved

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Dec 7

So true :)

PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · Dec 7

How long it takes...

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James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · Nov 21

Welcome @stanfordhai.bsky.social to bluesky!

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Nov 27

Super excited to be part of this great winter school (in an amazing place)!

Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Nov 27

ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School on #DeepLearning and #ComputerVision

📍 Brunico, Italy
🗓 January 27-31, 2025
🔗 Event Website: elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-...

ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025 | elias-aiEvent Location and ExperienceWinter School Event Footer

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Ravid Shwartz Ziv @shwartzzzivravid.bsky.social · Nov 25

Looking at ICLR submissions with the lowest score - What a work of art! 🧵

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · Nov 26

It is hard to fully grasp the versatility of linear operations:

- Rotation / projection / skewing
- Dimension reduction
- Discrete differentiation
- Kernel diffusion
- Matching
- Readout
- Fourier transform
- Weighted average / expectation
- Permutation
- Counting
- Intersection

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Zubair Irshad @zubair-irshad.bsky.social · Nov 21

Created a #robotics and #vision starter pack. Feel free to suggest yourself or others missing from the list!

go.bsky.app/HcQYMj

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Lamberto Ballan @lambertoballan.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hi, with my group we are doing several things in the embodied AI area...

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