Pietro Michiardi
@michiardi.bsky.social
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Prof at Eurecom, studying and sometimes contributing to probabilistic machine learning, generative modeling, stochastic processes. https://michiard.eurecom.io/
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vertaix.bsky.social
Our paper introducing Alternators has been accepted at TMLR. Alternators are a new class of generative models that outperform state-space models, such as Mambas, and diffusion models such as ScoreGrad. Check it out!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.11848
Code: github.com/vertaix/Alternators
#MLSky #Vertaix
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rtroncy.bsky.social
📢A unique fully funded three-years PhD position is open at POLITO and EURECOM.
Title: Enhancing Educational Storytelling with Human-Centered AI in the LLM Era
Application deadline: April 28, 2025
Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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sedielem.bsky.social
Amazing interview with Yang Song, one of the key researchers we have to thank for diffusion models.

The most important lesson: be fearless! The community's view on score matching was quite pessimistic at the time, he went against the grain and made it work at scale!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6z...
History of Diffusion - Yang Song
YouTube video by Bain Capital Ventures
www.youtube.com
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sebastianraschka.com
I just shared a new article, "The State of Reasoning Models", where I am exploring 12 new research articles on improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs (all published after the release of DeepSeek R1): magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...

Happy reading!
The State of LLM Reasoning Models
Part 1: Inference-Time Compute Scaling Methods
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
michiardi.bsky.social
Happy to share that our paper, "Information Theoretic Text-to-Image Alignment," has been accepted at ICLR 2025! 🚀

Kudos to the team: Chao Wang, the PhD student leading this work, Alessandro Finamore, Max Gallo, and Giulio Franzese.

arxiv.org/abs/2405.20759
Information Theoretic Text-to-Image Alignment
Diffusion models for Text-to-Image (T2I) conditional generation have recently achieved tremendous success. Yet, aligning these models with user's intentions still involves a laborious trial-and-error ...
arxiv.org
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canaesseth.bsky.social
Really excited about this! We note a connection between diffusion/flow models and neural/latent SDEs. We show how to use this for simulation-free learning of fully flexible SDEs. We refer to this as SDE Matching and show speed improvements of several orders of magnitude.

arxiv.org/abs/2502.02472
SDE Matching: Scalable and Simulation-Free Training of Latent Stochastic Differential Equations
The Latent Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) is a powerful tool for time series and sequence modeling. However, training Latent SDEs typically relies on adjoint sensitivity methods, which depend ...
arxiv.org
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vcastin.bsky.social
How do tokens evolve as they are processed by a deep Transformer?

With José A. Carrillo, @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social and @pierreablin.bsky.social, we tackle this in our new preprint: A Unified Perspective on the Dynamics of Deep Transformers arxiv.org/abs/2501.18322

ML and PDE lovers, check it out!
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pamattei.bsky.social
We’re organizing once again the Gznerative Modeling Summer school this spring on the Côte d’Azur, merged for the occasion with SFdS’s Statlearn!
Applications are open!
jesfrellsen.bsky.social
Excited about

🎓 Generative Modeling Summer School / Statlearn
🗓️ Mar 31 - Apr 4, 2025, France

ℹ️ gemss.ai
🎟️ Deadline: Jan 27, 2025

🧑‍🏫 Yingzhen Li, @stephanmandt.bsky.social, Aude Sportisse, Anna Korba, @glouppe.bsky.social, @jesfrellsen.bsky.social, @pamattei.bsky.social, @jmtomczak.bsky.social, TBA
Generative Modeling Summer School (GeMSS)
gemss.ai
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jesfrellsen.bsky.social
Excited about

🎓 Generative Modeling Summer School / Statlearn
🗓️ Mar 31 - Apr 4, 2025, France

ℹ️ gemss.ai
🎟️ Deadline: Jan 27, 2025

🧑‍🏫 Yingzhen Li, @stephanmandt.bsky.social, Aude Sportisse, Anna Korba, @glouppe.bsky.social, @jesfrellsen.bsky.social, @pamattei.bsky.social, @jmtomczak.bsky.social, TBA
Generative Modeling Summer School (GeMSS)
gemss.ai
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arnauddoucet.bsky.social
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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rtroncy.bsky.social

Meet EULER (EURECOM Language Model for Education and Research) and our new #Socratic LLM for AI-Driven Education, eurecom-blog.medium.com/eurecoms-soc...
Model available @huggingface.bsky.social and @ollama.bsky.social
#LLM #RAG #EduTech
Socrates teaching its method
michiardi.bsky.social
Great job Moto! Congrats!
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srushnlp.bsky.social
Discrete diffusion has become a very hot topic again this year. Dozens of interesting ICLR submissions and some exciting attempts at scaling. Here's a bibliography on the topic from the Kuleshov group (my open office neighbors).

github.com/kuleshov-gro...
GitHub - kuleshov-group/awesome-discrete-diffusion-models: A curated list for awesome discrete diffusion models resources.
A curated list for awesome discrete diffusion models resources. - kuleshov-group/awesome-discrete-diffusion-models
github.com
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tyrellturing.bsky.social
1/ I work in #NeuroAI, a growing field of research, which many people have only the haziest conception of...

As way of introduction to this research approach, I'll provide here a very short thread outlining the definition of the field I gave recently at our BRAIN NeuroAI workshop at the NIH.

🧠📈
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r3rt0.bsky.social
🧠 Come work with us! In addition to our postdoc position on modelling, our lab at @institutpasteur.bsky.social we also seek a postdoc to help us create the most complete open atlas of brain folding development! This is part of our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join us! (1/10)
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motonobu-kanagawa.bsky.social
We are organising the First International Conference on Probabilistic Numerics (ProbNum 2025) at EURECOM in southern France in Sep 2025. Topics: AI, ML, Stat, Sim, and Numerics. Reposts very much appreciated!

probnum25.github.io