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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · May 6

📐 On the Importance of Embedding Norms in Self-Supervised Learning

By Andrew Draganov, @sharvaree.bsky.social , Sebastian Damrich, Jan Niklas Böhm, Lucas Maes, Dmitry Kobak, @erikjbekkers.bsky.social

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.09252

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Christian A. Naesseth @canaesseth.bsky.social · Apr 13

Make sure to get your tickets to AABI if you are in Singapore on April 29 (just after #ICLR2025) and interested in probabilistic modeling, inference, and decision-making!

Tickets (free but limited!): lu.ma/5syzr79m
More info: approximateinference.org

#Bayes #MachineLearning #ICLR2025 #AABI2025

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Jes Frellsen @jesfrellsen.bsky.social · Mar 31

Now, the fantastic @jmtomczak.bsky.social is telling us about probabilistic circuits at GeMSS/Statlearn 2025 @gemssai.bsky.social

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Miles Cranmer @milescranmer.bsky.social · Apr 2

We have just opened a fully-funded PhD position at Cambridge, supervised by me & Vasily Belokurov.

Topic: AI + astronomical imaging (broadly defined).
Deadline: April 16.

Please share with anyone who may be interested!

www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/dire...

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Mar 25

Is the list of accepted workshops out? Where can I find it?

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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · Jan 6

It’s a green light for the Frugal AI Challenge! 🚀
For the next month, we invite all members of the AI community to participate in one of our 3 AI for Climate tasks, with the goal of developing a highly accurate model while consuming as little energy as possible ⚡

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icmlconf.bsky.social @icmlconf.bsky.social · Jan 4

ICML 2025 Call for Workshops is out.
icml.cc/Conferences/...

ICML 2025 Call for Workshops

icml.cc

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Kristina Ulicna @kristinaulicna.bsky.social · Dec 19

Exciting news! 🚀 The Learning Meaningful Representations of Life ( #LMRL 🌟) workshop is returning at #ICLR2025! 🎉

On 27th / 28th April 2025 in Singapore 🇸🇬, this popular event returns with a fresh organizing team 👇 & bold new ideas 🧠 to explore bridging AI & life sciences 🧬

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 19

I see a few familiar names. ☺️☺️
Congrats Anna and Jakub!

TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · Dec 19

Hierarchical VAE with a Diffusion-based VampPrior

Anna Kuzina, Jakub M. Tomczak

Action editor: Arto Klami

https://openreview.net/forum?id=NUkEoZ7Toa

#autoencoders #vampprior #generative

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Joey Bose @joeybose.bsky.social · Dec 18

🔊 Super excited to announce the first ever Frontiers of Probabilistic Inference: Learning meets Sampling workshop at #ICLR2025 @iclr-conf.bsky.social!

🔗 website: sites.google.com/view/fpiwork...

🔥 Call for papers: sites.google.com/view/fpiwork...

more details in thread below👇 🧵

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 18

This is very important and I am so glad about the efforts taken in Tübingen by Claire. Kudos! 👏

ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · Dec 18

With “Tübingen Women in Machine Learning”, Claire Vernade and her team have created a local community. Their aim is to empower women and make them more visible. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/a-network... @twiml.bsky.social #TWiML #WiML

A network for women to support each other

There are still far fewer women than men working in the field of machine learning. With "TWiML", Claire Vernade has fostered a community for women in Tübingen.

www.machinelearningforscience.de

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 17

The horses braids are perfect ✨

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 16

Incredible 🎉

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Jakub M. Tomczak @jmtomczak.bsky.social · Dec 15

Shar, you are simply amazing! And working you with is a highlight!

Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 14

@neuripsconf.bsky.social Program Chair spotted 😁😁

@jmtomczak.bsky.social Jakub, seeing you work towards making NeurIPS happen, has been awe inspiring. What a mammoth effort!

A proud advisee moment 🥹

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 15

🥹🥹 thank you!

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 14

@neuripsconf.bsky.social Program Chair spotted 😁😁

@jmtomczak.bsky.social Jakub, seeing you work towards making NeurIPS happen, has been awe inspiring. What a mammoth effort!

A proud advisee moment 🥹

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 12

I am rooting for you all 💪🎉☀️

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 12

Loving bsky community. Since I joined, I got to meet a lot of new people especially women in ML/AI!
It's really heart warming to see that there are so many incredible women doing really cool work especially on the days when you face the challenges of working in severely skewed gender ratio groups.

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 11

Kudos Jakub! 🎉
What an incredible feat! ✨✨

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Dec 11

Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one.
So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗
go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Dec 9

"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."

Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate

The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study

www.science.org

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 9

I will be at @newtheory.ai 🚀 launch party in Vancouver! Hope to see you all! ✨

colin-r-odonnell.bsky.social @colin-r-odonnell.bsky.social · Dec 9

I'm excited to start talking with the community about what we're up to; co-founding @newtheory.ai the next generation of foundational AI, w/ @christian-shewmake.bsky.social if you're going to be at NeurIPS this week, I'd love to invite you to our soft-launch event 😏🥳 partiful.com/e/rgVdt2XkzZ...

RSVP to New Theory Soft Launch! | Partiful

Spun out of Berkeley/Redwood Center, New Theory is building new foundational models rooted in Geometric Deep Learning that break the scaling laws of transformer-based architectures, paving the way for...

partiful.com

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Sharvaree Vadgama @sharvaree.bsky.social · Dec 9

Come say hi to our team at @neuripsconf.bsky.social

AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · Dec 9

♻️Learning Symmetries via Weight-sharing with Doubly Stochastic Tensors

by Putri van der Linden, @algarciacast.bsky.social, @sharvaree.bsky.social, Thijs P. Kuipers, @erikjbekkers.bsky.social

🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96699
📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04594

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Learning Symmetries via Weight-Sharing with Doubly Stochastic Tensors

Group equivariance has emerged as a valuable inductive bias in deep learning, enhancing generalization, data efficiency, and robustness. Classically, group equivariant methods require the groups of in...

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Jakub M. Tomczak @jmtomczak.bsky.social · Dec 4

I am super hyped and happy with our recent paper on a ✨VampPrior 2.0✨: Hierarchical VAE with a diffusion-based VampPrior! 🦇 We got SOTA VAE results on CIFAR-10! Kudos to Anna Kuzina because this TMLR paper is the last chapter in her PhD thesis 🤩
📃 tinyurl.com/22rvzc4f
💻 github.com/AKuzina/dvp_...

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · Dec 3

Many organizations for women in tech and other under-represented groups have shut down the past few years like Women Who Code and Girls In Tech. One of the reasons cited is lack of funds

If you are able to, please donate to organizations that support underrepresented people in tech 🧵

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