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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 5d

@belongielab.org welcomes applications for a PhD position in CV/ML (fine-grained analysis of multimodal data, 2D/3D generative models, misinformation detection, self-supervised learning) / Apply though the ELLIS portal / Deadline 31-Oct-2025

ELLIS @ellis.eu · 7d

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

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...

ellis.eu

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d

We're finally out of stealth: percepta.ai
We're a research / engineering team working together in industries like health and logistics to ship ML tools that drastically improve productivity. If you're interested in ML and RL work that matters, come join us 😀

Percepta | A General Catalyst Transformation Company

Transforming critical institutions using applied AI. Let's harness the frontier.

percepta.ai

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · 12d

I am attending CoRL 2025 in Seoul.
DM me if you are too and want to chat.

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · 14d

10 years is a stretch.
For driving this happened in the last 2 years.
When I started my PhD 3 years ago people were still all in on modular stacks and telling me that E2E / IL will never be useful because it is not interpretable and doesn't guarantee safety.

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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 20d

We're recruiting our next batch of interns. Come join the team! nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIA...

NVIDIA 2026 Internships: PhD Autonomous Vehicles Research - US

By submitting your resume, you’re expressing interest in one of our 2026 Autonomous Vehicles focused Research Internships. We’ll review resumes on an ongoing basis, and a recruiter may reach out if yo...

nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · 22d

IMPRS-IS is recruiting another round of PhD students this year.
If you are looking for a PhD position in machine learning or robotics in Germany, this is the best program to apply to.

imprs.is.mpg.de/application

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · 27d

thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
Blog post about determinism in LLMs.
They make a very interesting point at the end about how the numerical differences between data collection and training forward passes can make an RL algorithm lose its On-policy property.

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Sep 8

Curious: Has an LLM ever replied with "I don't know." or equivalent to a question you asked?

Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Sep 7

Civil software licenses are a useful tool for those who decide that they don't want their research software be used in dual use applications:

civil-software-licenses.github.io

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Sep 6

Really capable autonomous weapons systems are right on the horizon. Figuring out your stance on dual use of research isn't really something you can put off anymore.

Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Sep 4

could you add me?

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Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · Sep 3

ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

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...

ellis.eu

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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · Sep 1

Announcing the @iccv.bsky.social NAVSIM Challenge! What's new? We're testing not only on real recordings, but also perturbed futures generated from the real ones via pseudo-simulation! $8K in prizes + several $1.5k travel grants. Submit by September 20! opendrivelab.com/challenge2025/ 🧵👇

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Katrin Renz @katrinrenz.bsky.social · Aug 20

After finishing my papers for my PhD, I spent some time exploring new directions. I ended up working on Diffusion Language Models with @haoyuhe.bsky.social (he made it work 🚀), @yongcao.bsky.social, @andreasgeiger.bsky.social.

I learned a lot of new things and I am very excited about the results. 🥳

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haoyuhe.bsky.social @haoyuhe.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚀 Introducing our new paper, MDPO: Overcoming the Training-Inference Divide of Masked Diffusion Language Models.

📄 Paper: www.scholar-inbox.com/papers/He202...
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13148
💻 Code: github.com/autonomousvi...
🌐 Project Page: cli212.github.io/MDPO/

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Max Seitzer @maxseitzer.bsky.social · Aug 14

Introducing DINOv3 🦕🦕🦕

A SotA-enabling vision foundation model, trained with pure self-supervised learning (SSL) at scale.
High quality dense features, combining unprecedented semantic and geometric scene understanding.

Three reasons why this matters👇

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Abby Stylianou @astylianou.bsky.social · Aug 13

I have found ACing for NeurIPS this year a miserable experience and I've been struggling to articulate why without basically whining about it being too much work (although.....true. My god the amount of words I'm reading...). But I think I've figured out part of my dislike for this process.

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Convergent Research @convergentresearch.bsky.social · Aug 12

How can we identify what capabilities will matter most in an increasingly intelligence-saturated world?

1. Avoid fast obsolescence
2. Complement AI
3. Use the steering wheel, not just the pedals
4. Imagine good futures

+ our AI-inflected priorities across 7 fields.

Prioritizing Fundamental Capabilities for the Intelligence Age

What science & technology should we steer towards?

convergentresearch.substack.com

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Aug 8

Our paper "CaRL: Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards" has been accepted to the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2025).
See you in Seoul at the end of September.

Code & Paper:
github.com/autonomousvi...

GitHub - autonomousvision/CaRL: [CoRL 2025] CaRL: Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards

[CoRL 2025] CaRL: Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards - autonomousvision/CaRL

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Wenzel Jakob @wjakob.bsky.social · Aug 8

My lab will be recruiting at all levels. PhD students, postdocs, and a research engineering position (worldwide for PhD/postdoc, EU candidates only for the engineering position). If you're at SIGGRAPH, I'd love to talk to you if you are interested in any of these.

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Aug 2

You are right, terrorists (and other illegal organizations) do not care about licenses.
But these organizations typically do not make weapons themselves; they buy or smuggle them.

That is the reason why we restrict building weapons. This happens in corporations that are subject to legal oversight.

Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Aug 1

If they work at a large company, then their legal team will.

But more importanty good actors do read licenses!
We kept it super concise to respect their time.

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Jul 31

valid concern. We discuss this question in the Q&A civil-software-licenses.github.io/qa.html

Q&A - Civil Software Licenses

civil-software-licenses.github.io

Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Jul 31

One concern that I have as an AI researcher when publishing code is that it can potentially be used in dual-use applications.
To solve this, we propose Civil Software Licenses. They prevent dual-use while being minimal in the restrictions they impose:

civil-software-licenses.github.io

Civil Software Licenses

civil-software-licenses.github.io

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Jul 31

C++ questions you can get answers from LLMs.
For repo-specific questions, you can use GitHub issues.

Singularity has become the new standard in large GPU-clusters (particularly in academia) where Dockers root access leads to security problems.

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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · Jul 29

it is planned to be stable. 3.14 isn't out yet. They need to get it stable, get the overhead down and then all the necessary libraries need to add support. I am hopeful that in 1-3 years you can do this in Python as well.

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