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Evangelos Kazakos

@ekazakos.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral researcher @ CIIRC, CTU, Prague working in vision & language. Also robotics noob. PhD from University of Bristol. Ex. Samsung Research (SAIC-C). I love coffee and plants. And socks.

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our work, GROVE, has been accepted to ICCV 2025! 🎉 This is collab. w. Cordelia Schmid & @josef-sivic.bsky.social.

We will release code, models and datasets within next 2 weeks.

We are also working on a search demo for the proposed datasets with user prompts!

I hope to see you all in Honolulu!

Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨🚨📢📢 PAPER ALERT 📢📢🚨🚨

Excited to announce our new work: "Large-scale Pre-training for Grounded Video Caption Generation" with Cordelia Schmid & @josef-sivic.bsky.social.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10781
Project: ekazakos.github.io/grounded_vid...
Code (coming soon): github.com/ekazakos/grove 1/7

Large-scale Pre-training for Grounded Video Caption Generation

We propose a novel approach for captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally dense bounding boxes. We introduce the following con...

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 16h

For those going to @iccv.bsky.social, welcome to our RANSAC tutorial on October 2025 with
- Daniel Barath
- @ericbrachmann.bsky.social
- Viktor Larsson
- Jiri Matas
- and me
danini.github.io/ransac-2025-...
#ICCV2025

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 2d

To keep the tradition, the lineup is 🔥🔥🔥

Giorgos Tolias @gtolias.bsky.social · 2d

The Visual Recognition Group at CTU in Prague organizes the 50th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium with
Torsten Sattler, Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Vicky Kalogeiton, Spyros Gidaris, Anna Kukleva, and Lukas Neumann.
On Thursday Oct 9, 11:00-17:00.

cmp.felk.cvut.cz/colloquium/

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting paper suggesting a mechanism for why in-context learning happens in LLMs.

They show that LLMs implicitly apply an internal low-rank weight update adjusted by the context. It’s cheap (due to the low-rank) but effective for adapting the model’s behavior.

#MLSky

arxiv.org/abs/2507.16003

Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning

One of the most striking features of Large Language Models (LLM) is their ability to learn in context. Namely at inference time an LLM is able to learn new patterns without any additional weight updat...

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 2d

I've added a rule to add posts from this account always in the feed so no need for the tag 😉 But thanks a lot for caring about it mate! ❤️

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 3d

#skyvision

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 4d

ModernVBERT

A vision-language encoder that matches the performance of models 10× its size on visual retrieval tasks!

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.01149
🌐 Blog: huggingface.co/blog/paultlt...
👨‍🍳 Finetuning Cookbook: colab.research.google.com/drive/1bT5LW...
🤗 Models: huggingface.co/ModernVBERT

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 3d

If you install ROCm version of PyTorch for AMD, you can of course use it without any changes in your code and with very negligible differences in performance (without this meaning that CUDA performs better).

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Titas Anciukevičius @anciukevicius.bsky.social · 7d

Hiring a PhD Intern to join our research team at Waymo to advance generative world models! If you have experience in reinforcement learning, generative modeling and 3D computer vision, please apply directly via our careers site: careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2026-su...

2026 Summer Intern, PhD, World Modeling - Mountain View, California, United States

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building ...

careers.withwaymo.com

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 4d

Glad to see people doing this! Add the #skyvision tag in your post to make sure that your post is included in the computer vision feed for @bsky.app. Link of feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Happy to collaborate with anyone interested for improving the feed!

Ignacio Arganda-Carreras @iarganda.bsky.social · 5d

#skyvision 🤓🤗

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Tom Dörr @tom-doerr.bsky.social · 4d

https://github.com/alibaba/EasyCV

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Tom Dörr @tom-doerr.bsky.social · 4d

PyTorch computer vision toolkit with self-supervised learning, transformers, and detection models

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 4d

Oh if you give me a beer I can start singing as well

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 4d

Good, then we agree! 😊

Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 4d

I understand what Andrei is saying. 🙂 I replied to you about subjectivity. You cannot cast it as an RL tree because in real life rewards are subjective. What is rewarding for you might be a loss for me.

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 4d

Very subjective tho.

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I know how to do that very well!

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 4d

So, conference submissions is our only real life now? 🙃

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 5d

Robot installing solar panels

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 5d

you have a "world model" that can do many - if not all - tasks.

I also think we've known that since 1961 when Cover and Hart proved that k-NN converges to the Bayes error when n→∞. Turns out that since our world is finite, n doesn't even need to approach ∞.

But is it a good research question? ...

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 5d

Completely agree about data leakage, it's always the first thing I'm saying when people claim emergence.

But I disagree with the part of treating arXiv papers with minimum respect!

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 5d

I do occasionally for grammar checking

Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 5d

I prefer a bit trickier access to engaging information that stays rather than easy access to boring information that disappears.

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 5d

Looking for PhD opportunites in #NLProc #XAI? We @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk @apepa.bsky.social are hiring for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026.
📆 Application deadline: 31 October 2025
ℹ️ Details: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel...
👀 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

PhD fellowships for start in Spring or Autumn 2026 | CopeNLU

Would you like to join our lab as a PhD student in 2026? We have several openings. Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here. Start in Spring 2026 We have two fully funded 3-year PhD fellowships av...

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 5d

Available #NLProc PhD positions:
- Explainable NLU, main supervisor: myself, start in Spring 2026 tinyurl.com/3uset3dm
- Trustworthy NLP, main supervisor: @apepa.bsky.social, start in Spring 2026 tinyurl.com/yxj8yk4m
- Open-topic: express interest via ELLIS, start in Autumn 2026 tinyurl.com/2hcxexyx

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

lnkd.in

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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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