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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · 20d

Submit your work on to the @euripsconf.bsky.social workshop on on Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning!

differentiable-systems.github.io/workshop-eur...

Submission: 10 October
Notification: 31 October
Workshop: 6 or 7 December in Copenhagen

Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning Workshop - EurIPS 2025

differentiable-systems.github.io

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Christian A. Naesseth @canaesseth.bsky.social · Jul 16

At #ICML2025 this week?

Come check out our work on controlled generation, simulation-free latent SDEs, and risk monitoring in test-time adaptation, and chat with the awesome students that made it happen!

#SDE #Diffusion #FlowMatching #TTA #UncertaintyQuantification

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Sara Magliacane @smaglia.bsky.social · Jun 3

Are you interested in improving the #interpretability, #robustness and #safety of current AI systems with #causality and #RL?

Apply to our PhD position in Amsterdam 🚲🌷🇳🇱

Deadline: June 15

Sara Magliacane @smaglia.bsky.social · May 12

New PhD position at the University of Amsterdam in @amlab.bsky.social on learning concepts with theoretical guarantees using #causality and #RL with me, Frans Oliehoek (TU Delft) and Herke van Hoof 💥

Deadline: 15 June

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position on Learning Concepts with Theoretical Guarantees Using Causality and RL

Are you interested in improving the interpretability, robustness and safety of current AI systems? If the answer is yes, please continue reading!

werkenbij.uva.nl

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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · May 6

🐳 Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching

By @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social , @zmheiko.bsky.social ,
@sharvaree.bsky.social , @erikjbekkers.bsky.social ,
@wellingmax.bsky.social , @canaesseth.bsky.social *, @jwvdm.bsky.social *

📜 As above - paper TBA soon 😉

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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · May 6

🌊 Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation

By Andrés Guzmán-Cordero*, @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social *,
@jwvdm.bsky.social

📜 This paper will be shared soon - keep your eyes open! 🤩

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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · May 6

🐸 Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems

By @maxxxzdn.bsky.social , @jwvdm.bsky.social , @wellingmax.bsky.social

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019

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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · May 6

Exciting news: AMLab is happy to have 7 papers accepted at #ICML2025! 🎉

See the thread below for the full list 📝 and meet us in Vancouver to discuss them further! 🇨🇦

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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · May 1

🥇 3 Best Paper Awards for AMLab members!

1. Towards Variational Flow Matching on General Geometries by @olgatticus.bsky.social et al.

2. Generative Uncertainty in Diffusion Models by @metodjazbec.bsky.social et al.

3. SDE Matching by @gbarto.bsky.social et al.

Congrats to everyone! 🔥

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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · May 1

Nice work! We were ourselves also wondering why few approaches seem to consider conditional entropy as a function of time (beyond the time-warping in the work of @sedielem.bsky.social, as you note). Great to see that this can aid generation in other settings as well.

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Pedro J. Goncalves @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social · Apr 24

Exciting project in Parkinson's disease! Patrik Verstreken's lab (verstrekenlab.sites.vib.be) and my lab are looking for a postdoc to develop and apply ML methods to the analysis of exciting brain-on-chip data. Please spread the word!

More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...

Postdoc position: Computational methods for neurodegeneration research - VIB

About the labs The Verstreken Lab and the Gonçalves Lab are based in Leuven, Belgium and part of the

jobs.vib.be

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · Apr 2

Our colleagues at Climate AI Nordics are seeking collabroators in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland 📣

Please reshare this with your networks if you have colleagues who might be interested in joining this team 🌍

Climate AI Nordics @climateainordics.com · Apr 2

Climate AI Nordics hits 140 members! 🎉 Using AI for climate resilience. Join our 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪 network, especially if you're in Iceland 🇮🇸, Faroe Island 🇫🇴, Greenland 🇬🇱 or Åland 🇦🇽! Let's build solutions. Sign up: climateainordics.com/join/ #ClimateAI

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Mar 31

CmdStanR v 0.9.0 released! According to Andrew Johnson, this should make Windows installation easier plus many other improvements and bug fixes discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstanr-v...

#Bayesian #MCMC

CmdStanR: v0.9.0 Release

Hello all, I’m excited to announce that we have now released CmdStanR v0.9.0! This is a minor release, wrapping up several months of bugfixes, quality-of-life improvements, and updates to documentatio...

discourse.mc-stan.org

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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · Mar 24

Just returned from an inspiring three weeks at AIMS (aims.ac.za) in Cape Town, where I taught Generative AI with @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social.

I was really impressed with these students, who are engaged, very hard working, and asked some of the best questions that I have ever had in class!

A class photo in front of the AIMS building in Muizenberg, Cape Town.

A selfie with students at AIMS in Muizenberg, Cape Town.

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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · Mar 5

Excellent work by @maxxxzdn
that uses ideas from computational physics to design scalable transformers!

Max Zhdanov @maxxxzdn.bsky.social · Mar 5

🤹 Excited to share Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems

joint work with @wellingmax.bsky.social and @jwvdm.bsky.social

preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
code: github.com/maxxxzdn/erwin

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Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social · Feb 21

We are hiring on the Generative Media team in London: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

We work on Imagen, Veo, Lyria and all that good stuff. Come work with us! If you're interested, apply before Feb 28.

Research Scientist, Generative Media

London, UK

boards.greenhouse.io

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Olga Zaghen @olgatticus.bsky.social · Feb 19

Variational Flow Matching goes Riemannian! 🔮

In this preliminary work, we derive a variational objective for probability flows 🌀 on manifolds with closed-form geodesics, and discuss some interesting results.

Dream team: Floor, Alison & Erik (their @ below) 💥

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.12981
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · Feb 13

Come to #accelerate25 the premier conference on #aiformaterials #selfdrivinglabs #chemsky Please RT

Acceleration Consortium @accelerationc.bsky.social · Feb 12

Registration for the 2025 Accelerate conference in Toronto (Aug 11–14) opens soon! Be the first to know: zr2z766pxls.typeform.com/accelerate25

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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · Feb 13

Very excited about this line of work by Jacco, which opens up opportunities for more scalable modeling of fluids at the mesoscopic scale. I think this will be particularly promising in the context of applications to materials design!

Jacobus Dijkman @jdijkman.bsky.social · Feb 13

🚨 Excited to share our work just published in Physical Review Letters with @wellingmax.bsky.social, @jwvdm.bsky.social, @berndensing.bsky.social, Marjolein Dijkstra and René van Roij: doi.org/10.1103/Phys....

Details below 👇

Learning Neural Free-Energy Functionals with Pair-Correlation Matching

The intrinsic Helmholtz free-energy functional, the centerpiece of classical density functional theory, is at best only known approximately for 3D systems. Here we introduce a method for learning a ne...

doi.org

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Jacobus Dijkman @jdijkman.bsky.social · Feb 13

🚨 Excited to share our work just published in Physical Review Letters with @wellingmax.bsky.social, @jwvdm.bsky.social, @berndensing.bsky.social, Marjolein Dijkstra and René van Roij: doi.org/10.1103/Phys....

Details below 👇

Learning Neural Free-Energy Functionals with Pair-Correlation Matching

The intrinsic Helmholtz free-energy functional, the centerpiece of classical density functional theory, is at best only known approximately for 3D systems. Here we introduce a method for learning a ne...

doi.org

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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · Jan 17

I think that a key difference here may be that RPG mechanics are generally less stochastic than the conference reviewing process.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · Jan 7

Join us on 27 Feb in Amsterdam for the ELLIS workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data ✨

sites.google.com/view/rl-and-...

Inspiring talks by @eisenjulian.bsky.social, @neuralnoise.com, Frank Hutter, Vaishali Pal, TBC.

We welcome extended abstracts until 31 Jan!

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Francesca Grisoni @fragrisoni.bsky.social · Dec 21

Open #postdoc position in *Organic/Medicinal Chemistry* for generative #AI in Drug Discovery — join us @tueindhoven.bsky.social 💪🏻

Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Deadline: Jan 15, 25

jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/...

Repost appreciated!

Postdoc In Organic/Medicinal Chemistry for generative AI in Drug Discovery

De TU/e is voortdurend op zoek naar wetenschappelijk en niet-wetenschappelijk personeel om haar ambities waar te maken. Kijk hier voor ons actuele vacatureaanbod.

jobs.tue.nl

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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · Dec 15

Really enjoyed this talk from Arnaud! It is so refreshing when a speaker focuses on providing a lucid overview of methods and their connections, past and present. Something to aspire to for all of us.

Arnaud Doucet @arnauddoucet.bsky.social · Dec 15

The slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here
drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...

BreimanLectureNeurIPS2024_Doucet.pdf

drive.google.com

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Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social · Dec 12

When a bunch of diffusers sit down and talk shop, their flow cannot be matched😎

It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!

🕒Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!

It's located near the west entrance to the west side of the conference center, on the first floor, in case that helps!

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Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social · Dec 13

If you're at #NeurIPS2024, join us this afternoon to talk diffusion, flows and all that jazz. Be there or be non-circular!

Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social · Dec 12

When a bunch of diffusers sit down and talk shop, their flow cannot be matched😎

It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!

🕒Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!

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