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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Sep 3

& fellow A Hoyle alexanderhoyle.bsky.social 💫

Alexander Hoyle (@alexanderhoyle.bsky.social)

Postdoctoral fellow at ETH AI Center, working on Computational Social Science + NLP. Previously a PhD in CS at UMD, advised by Philip Resnik. Internships at MSR, AI2. he/him alexanderhoyle.com

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Sep 2

Proud to be among the initiators & drivers of this important development for AI made in Switzerland!

& the pivotal contributions to its success by
A Ilic M Gabriel D Naeff D Dobos A Klimovic A Krause

Special congrats to the team around I Schlag, including E Ďurech & our fellows I Hakimi B Pásztor

ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · Sep 2

EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS today released Apertus, Switzerland's first large-scale, multilingual language model (LLM). As a fully open LLM, it serves as a building block for developers and organizations to create their own applications.
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Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for trans...

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Swiss AI Initiative 2nd Call for Large Grants is NOW OPEN! 🚀
Letter of Intent due: Aug 25, 2025
Full Proposal due: Sept 8, 2025
Full guidelines and submission details are available here: tinyurl.com/3utfdnsn

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Alizée Pace @alizeepace.bsky.social · Apr 26

RL for real-world applications = offline learning + reward learning. How do we make this work?

Find out more at ICLR poster #377 at 10am today!

@gioramponi.bsky.social and I will be presenting our latest work on offline preference-based RL (joint w/ @gxxxr.bsky.social and Bernhard Schölkopf).

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Ghjulia Sialelli @ghjuliasialelli.bsky.social · May 9

It was a pleasure to share my research with the Nordic research community! If you missed it, the recording will soon be online on RISE’s YouTube channel. In the meantime, check out the great many talks that came before: lnkd.in/dEnZpVAe and the upcoming @climateainordics.com workshop.

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · May 16

🎉 Today, @ddmitriev.bsky.social, our second PhD Fellow of the @eth-ai-center.bsky.social, graduated! He was supervised by ETH AI Center Faculty members Prof. Fanny Yang and Prof. Afonso Bandeira. Congratulations, Dr. Daniil Dmitriev! Next, he will join @upenn.edu as a Postdoctoral Researcher.

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Vinzenz Thoma @vthoma.bsky.social · Apr 22

[1/2]Our work “Learning to steer Markovian Agents under Model Uncertainty” explores the problem of steering (unknown) learning dynamics in Markov Games towards desirable outcomes (e.g. Pareto optimal Nash).
My co-author Jiawei Huang is presenting it at ICLR on Apr 24, 3:00-5:30pm GMT+8, Poster #401.

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Apr 22

✨What an insightful academic talk & discussion today at ETH AI Center on Scientific Inference with Diffusion Models by
@stephanmandt.bsky.social (@ucirvine.bsky.social), hosted by our Faculty member Julia Vogt (@ethzurich.bsky.social)

More talks, info, & registration: ai.ethz.ch/research/eve...

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Apr 17

🪧 28 posters, 93 attendees, ∞ interactions. That sums up last week's Zurich Pre-ICLR 2025 poster session at ETH AI Center!✨

🌍 ETH AI Center together with its @ellis.eu Unit Zurich hosted an inspiring afternoon featuring posters from our talented academic community.

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Apr 11

Co-organized with @ethzurich.bsky.social International Affairs & the Italian Embassy in Switzerland.

More talks, information, and registration: ai.ethz.ch/research/eve...

ETH AI Center Academic Talk Series (AICATS)

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Apr 11

☯ "AI at the Service of Humankind". Last week, we had an exciting spotlight academic session at ETH AI Center, including 2 engaging talks and an insightful panel with Prof. Paolo Benanti (The Vatican), Prof. em. Mario Rasetti (PoliTo), and ETH AI Center Faculty Prof. @arkrause.bsky.social

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Andreas Krause @arkrause.bsky.social · Feb 17

We've released our lecture notes for the course Probabilistic AI at ETH Zurich, covering uncertainty in ML and its importance for sequential decision making. Thanks a lot to @jonhue.bsky.social for his amazing effort and to everyone who contributed! We hope this resource is useful to you!

Jonas Hübotter @jonhue.bsky.social · Feb 11

I'm very excited to share notes on Probabilistic AI that I have been writing with @arkrause.bsky.social 🥳

arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05244

These notes aim to give a graduate-level introduction to probabilistic ML + sequential decision-making.
I'm super glad to be able to share them with all of you now!

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Alice Bizeul @alicebizeul.bsky.social · Mar 19

✨New Preprint ✨ Ever thought that reconstructing masked pixels for image representation learning seems sub-optimal?

In our new preprint, we show how masking principal components—rather than raw pixel patches— improves Masked Image Modelling (MIM).

Find out more below 🧵

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thanks for having me, it was great to visit!

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Mar 19

🧬👨‍🏫 We had an interesting academic talk yesterday at ETH AI Center on "Effective Antibody Engineering with Protein Language Models" by Dr. Daniel Danciu (Cradle Bio), hosted by our ETH AI Center Faculty Prof. Dr. Gunnar Rätsch.

🔥 More talks, info, and registration: ai.ethz.ch/research/eve...

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Mar 11

🤖🧑 We had an exciting academic talk today at ETH AI Center on "AI Interacting with People (through Language)" by Prof. Dr. @haldaume3.bsky.social (UMD), hosted by our ETH AI Center Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social.

More talks, registration, & info: ai.ethz.ch/research/eve...

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eth-ai-center.bsky.social @eth-ai-center.bsky.social · Feb 27

🎉 Yesterday, @alizeepace.bsky.social, our first PhD Fellow of the @eth-ai-center.bsky.social, graduated! She was supervised by ETH AI Center Faculty members Prof. Rätsch @gxxxr.bsky.social and Prof. Schölkopf. Congrats, Dr. Pace! Next, she will join Google DeepMind in Zurich as a Research Scientist.

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levilingsch.bsky.social @levilingsch.bsky.social · Feb 14

Still dreaming of a general analytical solution to Navier-Stokes? 😴 Keep dreaming… but maybe not for long!

Our latest work explores AI for symbolic solutions to PDEs—bringing us a step closer to solving fundamental equations in science.

Check it out!

#AI #MachineLearning #Science #PDEs #ETHZurich

Neuro-Symbolic AI for Analytical Solutions of Differential Equations

Analytical solutions of differential equations offer exact insights into fundamental behaviors of physical processes. Their application, however, is limited as finding these solutions is difficult. To...

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