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Adrian Arnaiz @adri-arnaiz.bsky.social · 1d

The thesis document is available here 📖 ellisalicante.org/publications...

A Sociotechnical Approach to Trustworthy AI: from Algorithms to Regulation

This thesis presents a sociotechnical framework for implementing Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (TAI), integrating technical, human, and regulatory aspects. It emphasizes the importance of aligni...

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Adrian Arnaiz @adri-arnaiz.bsky.social · 1d

I've defended my PhD 🎓🙂

Huge thanks to @nuriaoliver.com for her guidance over these years and to the committee @ccattuto.bsky.social , Isabel Valera, and G. González Serrano for their time, insights, and an inspiring discussion 🙏

Excited for what's coming next!

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CDT Europe @cdteu.org · 8d

📢 The latest EU Tech Policy Brief is here!

In this edition:

⚖️ Joint letter to EU Commission & MSs on the #AIAct ’s implementation

👁️ Danish Presidency’s proposal on EU #CSAR raising concerns on #encryption

💬 Our response to the Gender Equality Strategy’s consultation

👇 More about EU tech policy:

EU Tech Policy Brief: September 2025

Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe‘s Tech Policy Brief! This edition covers the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe and gives CDT’s per...

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ladies and gentlemen, the generative AI industry:

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Aída Ponce Del Castillo @aida.follows.technology · Jul 9

No to simplification of EU digital laws

Weakening the AI Act would undermine accountability, the protection of society and workers and bring legal uncertainty

I have co-signed the letter led by @cdteu.bsky.social 👇🏼

CDT Europe @cdteu.org · Jul 9

⏰ Today, CDT Europe, together with 51 experts, academics & civil society organisations, sent an open letter to the European Commission to express our concerns regarding the forthcoming Digital Simplification package, which could include revisiting the AI Act.

👇🏻 Read the full letter on our website:

Open Joint Letter against the Delaying and Reopening of the AI Act

CDT Europe, alongside the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the European Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), co-drafted a letter signed by 52 civil society or...

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · Jul 10

The Code of Practice is out. I co-wrote the Safety & Security Chapter, which is an implementation tool to help frontier AI companies comply with the EU AI Act in a lean but effective way. I am proud of the result!
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João Vinagre @jvinagre.joaoms.com · Jul 2

A huge milestone was achieved today in the EU towards our common understanding of risks in the online world. If you are a researcher interested in studying societal risks related to very large online platforms and search engines, this is for you!
#DSA
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Commission adopts delegated act on data access under the Digital Services Act

The delegated act on data access under the Digital Services Act enables researchers to obtain unprecedented access to platforms’ internal data to contribute to a safer online world.

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Chaitanya K. Joshi @chaitjo.bsky.social · Jun 30

Needing a permanent doi was a forcing function to revisit this article on Transformers and Graph Neural Networks: arxiv.org/abs/2506.22084

This is (very) old news, so what's new?

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Adrian Arnaiz @adri-arnaiz.bsky.social · Jun 27

Had a great time presenting our work at @icwsm.bsky.social on measuring and mitigating structural social capital disparities in social networks 🕸️

Really appreciated the thoughtful feedback and the chance to connect with such an amazing community!

📄 Read the paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

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Adrian Arnaiz @adri-arnaiz.bsky.social · Jun 11

This paper reflects my and @federico-errica.bsky.social's thoughts on some current GNNs issues (like OSM/OSQ) after spending some time working on them. We also tried to capture concerns that we've seen echoed by parts of the community.

P.S. I thought I had all these issues figured out too 😅

Federico Errica @federico-errica.bsky.social · Jun 3

@neuripsconf.bsky.social what is going on...

We were desk-rejected from NeurIPS for dubious reasons, but that is not going to stop us 🌶️

arxiv.org/abs/2505.15547

Oversmoothing, "Oversquashing", Heterophily, Long-Range, and more: Demystifying Common Beliefs in Graph Machine Learning

After a renaissance phase in which researchers revisited the message-passing paradigm through the lens of deep learning, the graph machine learning community shifted its attention towards a deeper and...

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Federico Errica @federico-errica.bsky.social · Jun 3

@neuripsconf.bsky.social what is going on...

We were desk-rejected from NeurIPS for dubious reasons, but that is not going to stop us 🌶️

arxiv.org/abs/2505.15547

Oversmoothing, "Oversquashing", Heterophily, Long-Range, and more: Demystifying Common Beliefs in Graph Machine Learning

After a renaissance phase in which researchers revisited the message-passing paradigm through the lens of deep learning, the graph machine learning community shifted its attention towards a deeper and...

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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · May 22

Adrian Arnaiz-Rodriguez, Federico Errica: Oversmoothing, "Oversquashing", Heterophily, Long-Range, and more: Demystifying Common Beliefs in Graph Machine Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15547 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.15547 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.15547

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Max Thiessen @maxthiessen.bsky.social · May 25

After a break in April we welcome all of you to the next session of GLOW🌟 next week!

Join and interact with our speakers Christian Koke (scale in GNNs) and Yonatan Sverdlov (sparse geometric MPNNs).

🗓️ May 28th, 5pm CEST on Zoom.

🌐 Details & sign-up: sites.google.com/view/graph-learning-on-weds.

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Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social · Mar 17

I've recently put together a "Fairness FAQ": tinyurl.com/fairness-faq. If you work in non-fairness ML and you've heard about fairness, perhaps you've wondered things like what the best definitions of fairness are, and whether we can train algorithms that optimize for it.

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Adrián Javaloy @javaloyml.bsky.social · Feb 13

Have you ever been curious to try Causal Normalizing Flows for your project but found them intimidating? Say no more 😜

I just released a small library to easily implement and use causal-flows:

github.com/adrianjav/ca...

GitHub - adrianjav/causal-flows: CausalFlows: A library for Causal Normalizing Flows in Pytorch

CausalFlows: A library for Causal Normalizing Flows in Pytorch - adrianjav/causal-flows

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Adrian Arnaiz @adri-arnaiz.bsky.social · Apr 2

If you are interested in contributing to the Graph Learning community, joining the LoG organising team is a great way to do it! 🧠🕸️

logconference.bsky.social @logconference.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨 We’re recruiting organizers for LoG 2025!

Join us in shaping the next Learning on Graphs conference at UCLA this fall.

Passionate about graph ML & building community? Apply by Apr 11 (AOE) 🌍

📋 Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🏠LoG website: logconference.org

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

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logconference.bsky.social @logconference.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨 We’re recruiting organizers for LoG 2025!

Join us in shaping the next Learning on Graphs conference at UCLA this fall.

Passionate about graph ML & building community? Apply by Apr 11 (AOE) 🌍

📋 Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🏠LoG website: logconference.org

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

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Christopher Morris @chrsmrrs.bsky.social · Mar 21

Want to know about the current understanding of the generalization abilities of GNNs? Please have a look at our survey paper arxiv.org/abs/2503.15650.

Joint work with Antonis Vasileiou, Stefanie Jegelka, and Ron Levie.

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Gergely D. Németh @negedng.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our work, "Privacy and Accuracy Implications of Model Complexity and Integration in Heterogeneous Federated Learning" (w\ Miguel Angel Lozano, Novi Quadrianto, and @nuriaoliver.com ) is now published at @ieeeaccess.bsky.social: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...

Privacy and Accuracy Implications of Model Complexity and Integration in Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Federated Learning (FL) has been proposed as a privacy-preserving solution for distributed machine learning, particularly in heterogeneous FL settings where clients have varying computational capabili...

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · Mar 11

We welcome continued feedback and discussion as we head into the final stages of drafting.

Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · Mar 11

The 3rd draft of the EU's GPAI Code of Practice has just been published. It provides clarity on a way to comply with the EU AI Act. I've been co-chairing the Safety & Security Section, focused on managing risks at the frontier of AI development. Full text: code-of-practice.ai?section=safe...

EU AI Act: General-Purpose AI Code of Practice · Draft 3

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LOGML Summer School @logml.bsky.social · Mar 11

🌟Applications open- LOGML 2025🌟

👥Mentor-led projects, expert talks, tutorials, socials, and a networking night
✍️Application form: logml.ai
🔬Projects: www.logml.ai/projects.html
📅Apply by 6th April 2025
✉️Questions? [email protected]

#MachineLearning #SummerSchool #LOGML #Geometry

LOGML 2025

London Geometry and Machine Learning Summer School, July 7-11 2025

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS!
The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Stylized map of Detroit (MI) showing the highway network, and the network of social connections between urban residents. The connections intersecting highways are sparser than elsewehere. Image credit Karo Berghuber (Insta: @kariot.lines)

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Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · Mar 4

12 mandatory free-text input fields in the review form for ICML? Really?

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Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · Jan 29

I am hiring for a Ph.D. student to work in the areas of social network analysis, algorithms and fair machine learning.

Please apply and join our highly motivated team.

For more information please see the call: neumannstefan.com/hiring/

Call for Doctoral Students in Social Network Analysis, Algorithms and Fair Machine Learning

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Adrian Arnaiz @adri-arnaiz.bsky.social · Feb 26

An interesting future resource to keep an eye on will be the resulting report of Working Group 4 on the development of a General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, which will focus on mitigating the risk of GPAI models through AI governance

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Meet the Chairs leading the development of the first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

Chairs announced of the four Working Groups of the first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.

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