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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 6d

✨ EurIPS registration is now open! Get one of the 1,500 tickets available. 500 tickets are discounted for students 🎓.

In Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Dec 2-7, 2025.

❗ Entrance to the ELLIS UnConference is free with a #EurIPS ticket.

Get your ticket now: https://eurips.cc/

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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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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 7d

EurIPS workshop on AmOrTIzED InfErENcE!!!1!

Luigi Acerbi @lacerbi.bsky.social · 7d

Short abstract submission is open (DL Oct 16, 2025 AoE)
Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters.

🌍 Location: Copenhagen (co-located with #EurIPS)
📅 Date: 2 Dec, 2025
🔗 Website: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...
📝Call for abstracts: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...

Amortized ProbML 2025 - Call for Papers

Accepted papers will be presented as posters during the workshop poster session on 2nd December, 2025. Please be aware that this is not the same as the ELLIS UnConference poster session.

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Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · 15d

My full interview with MLStreetTalk has just been posted. I really enjoyed this conversation! We talk about the bitter lesson, scientific discovery, Bayesian inference, mysterious phenomena, and key principles for building intelligent systems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-jT...

The Real Reason Huge AI Models Actually Work

YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

www.youtube.com

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 15d

Most of the #EurIPS workshops now have their websites online 🙌

A lot of them have active call for participation and/or papers, so if you see something relevant to your field of research please consider submitting!

Links for most workshops are available at: eurips.cc/workshops/

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Vincent Fortuin @vincefort.bsky.social · 18d

Looks like a good candidate paper for the Salon des Refusés at @euripsconf.bsky.social

Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 19d

This is not OK.

I don't submit often to NeurIPS, but I reviewed papers for this conference almost every year. As a reviewer, why would I spend time trying to give a fair opinion on papers if it's what happens in the end???

Noa Garcia @noagarciad.bsky.social · 20d

This is the metareview

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 19d

And lastly, if @neuripsconf.bsky.social would choose to reverse the decisions on the papers affected by space constraints, we would be happy and able to accommodate their presentation

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20d

Fuck yeah

Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 20d

Some Good News, everybody!

"Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it can clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within a decade.

futurism.com

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Vincent Fortuin @vincefort.bsky.social · 19d

I love the Salon des Refusés idea!

EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to everyone who got their @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers accepted 🎉🎉🎉

At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23d

I reference data science at the singularity constantly as it's not just a model of why data science blew up, but also how any field or org can organize itself around data, code sharing, and benchmarks: arxiv.org/abs/2310.00865

Data Science at the Singularity

A purported `AI Singularity' has been in the public eye recently. Mass media and US national political attention focused on `AI Doom' narratives hawked by social media influencers. The European Commis...

arxiv.org

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 20d

Our NeurIPS submission arxiv.org/abs/2502.08938 did not get in, but it's one of my favorite papers and I think one of the better papers we've ever put out so I want to highlight it

Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games

In the past decade, motivated by the putative failure of naive self-play deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in adversarial imperfect-information games, researchers have developed numerous DRL algorithm...

arxiv.org

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 20d

Unfortunately, our submission to #NeurIPS didn’t go through with (5,4,4,3). But because I think it’s an excellent paper, I decided to share it anyway.

We show how to efficiently apply Bayesian learning in VLMs, improve calibration, and do active learning. Cool stuff!

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2412.06014

Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and SigLIP, have found remarkable success in classification, retrieval, and generative tasks. For this, VLMs deterministically map images and text descripti...

arxiv.org

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MicahDraws @ getting vGen Verified! @micahdraws.bsky.social · 23d

For anyone who is spiraling, I definitely recommend www.positive.news for a nice palate cleanser and reminder that there are still things going right despite all the garbage fires

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 23d

I wrote a response to Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI here: aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...

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Shubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is years old at this point. Still very underrated and little known. arxiv.org/abs/2103.15671

Martingale posterior distributions

The prior distribution on parameters of a sampling distribution is the usual starting point for Bayesian uncertainty quantification. In this paper, we present a different perspective which focuses on ...

arxiv.org

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Sep 3

Reminded again of Kevin Murphy's excellent RL overview: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265
A lot of the stuff covered here really is at the cutting edge and not compiled so nicely anywhere else

Reinforcement Learning: An Overview

This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based methods, policy-based methods, model-based m...

arxiv.org

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Vincent Fortuin @vincefort.bsky.social · Sep 1

Possibly one of the best PhD programs in the world if you are passionate about machine learning and AI:

ELLIS @ellis.eu · Aug 29

🎓 Interested in a #PhD in machine learning or #AI? The ELLIS PhD Program connects top students with leading researchers across Europe. The application portal opens on Oct 1st. Curious? Join our info session on the same day. Get all the info 👉

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 researchers. ELLIS also aims to boost economic growt...

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨AISTATS workshop proposals open!

Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦

Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs.

virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
Deadline: Oct 17, AOE

Call for Workshops

virtual.aistats.org

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Christoph Lampert (MLCV@ISTA) @mlcv-at-ista.bsky.social · Aug 28

Let's push for the obvious solution: Dear @neuripsconf.bsky.social ! Allow authors to present accepted papers at EurIPS instead of NeurIPS rather than just additionally. Likely, at least 500 papers would move to Copenhagen, problem solved.

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Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social · Jul 5

Agustinus is hiring! A great place to start a research journey.

Agustinus Kristiadi @agustinus.kristia.de · Jul 4

📣 [Openings] I'm now an Assistant Prof @westernu.ca CS dept. Funded PhD & MSc positions available! Topics: large probabilistic models, decision-making under uncertainty, and apps in AI4Science. More on agustinus.kristia.de/openings/

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅

EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu

eurips.cc

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ruining art with Gemini 2.5 Flash. (These are all the prompts, in their entirety)

"make this painting less gloomy"
"it is still pretty disturbing, make it less gloomy emotionally"
"even less gloomy"

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are excited to bring #EurIPS 2025 to Copenhagen in December.

Consider becoming a sponsor and support us in making this inaugural event a success! Sponsorship packages are available and can be further customized if necessary.

Reach out if you have any questions ❔
Info: eurips.cc/become-spons...

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Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · Aug 9

Regardless of whether you plan to use them in applications, everyone should learn about Gaussian processes, and Bayesian methods. They provide a foundation for reasoning about model construction and all sorts of deep learning behaviour that would otherwise appear mysterious.

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Fixed it for you...

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