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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 20d

On September 10th, we lost one of the kindest souls to ever prance across planet Earth. I'm grateful I was able to say goodbye before she passed.

chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Remembering Lavina Jadhwani 1983–2025 - Chicago Reader

The director, writer, and advocate died September 10, leaving a rich legacy as a theatermaker, mentor, and friend at theaters across the U.S.

chicagoreader.com

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Jun 13

First time receiving a figurine of myself!

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Atharva Sehgal @aseg.bsky.social · Jun 13

I’m presenting Escher (trishullab.github.io/escher-web) at #cvpr2025 Saturday morning (Poster Session #3). Escher builds a visual concept library with a vision‑language critic (no human labels needed). Swing by if you’d like to chat about program synthesis & multimodal reasoning!

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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · May 22

Steered generation for protein optimization: On datasets with ~10^2 measurements, steering a discrete diffusion model outperforms RL on a protein language model for generating improved variants.

@jsunn-y.bsky.social @francesarnold.bsky.social @yisongyue.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2505.15093

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · May 21

I am DONE as Faculty Search Chair for @caltech.edu and DONE with General Chair for @iclr-conf.bsky.social! Hoping for an academic year with much less service work 🥂

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · May 19

Thrilled to see Ben Riviere start his own group at @nyutandon.bsky.social & @nyucourant.bsky.social! Space robots meets AI!

Check him out here: sites.google.com/view/riviere...

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · May 8

Congratulations to Cloris Cheng for winning a Hertz Fellowship! It's been a pleasure working with such a brilliant, enthusiastic and kind person.

www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Caltech-Affiliated Students Awarded 2025 Hertz Fellowships

Caltech fourth-year student Cloris Cheng and incoming graduate student Edward Chen have been awarded Hertz Fellowships for five years of graduate study.

www.caltech.edu

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 28

That's a wrap for #ICLR2025! See you all next year in Brazil! Please all welcome @bharathhariharan.bsky.social as the new Senior Program Chair! (With @cvondrick.bsky.social continuing on as General Chair.)

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thanks to everyone for helping make #ICLR2025 successful. 🥳 It was an honor to serve as General Chair.

The best part was using @iclr-conf.bsky.social as my personal meme account the past two years (first as Senior Program Chair). I hope that future ICLR organizers continue the tradition. 🤪

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 28

#ICLR2025 Opening Reception Highlight Video, courtesy of SlidesLive.

slideslive.com/39038386/icl...

ICLR 2025 Opening Reception Highlight Video · SlidesLive

Professional Conference Recording

slideslive.com

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 28

Last day of #ICLR2025. Let's make it count! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💨

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 27

Huge thanks to the #ICLR2025 Organizing Committee (including many who couldn't make it to the conference) 👏👏👏

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Apr 26

More info:
bsky.app/profile/yiso...

Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Mar 14

We present InverseBench for benchmarking plug-and-play diffusion approaches for inverse problems in physical sciences.

PnP diffusion approaches are attractive for scientific inverse problems because they can flexibly incorporate domain-specific models.

Website: devzhk.github.io/InverseBench/

Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Apr 26

Poster session for InverseBench is happening now! #ICLR2025

devzhk.github.io/InverseBench/

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 25

#ICLR2025 Expo Exhibits. #FeelTheAGI (or at least a chatbot)

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 25

#ICLR2025 opening ceremony cultural performance

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Lily Xu @lilyxu.bsky.social · Apr 24

Monday
Hall 4 #3

Climate Change AI workshop, where we have:
🧪 @yisongyue.bsky.social keynote on AI for Science
🐘 Iadine Chades keynote on AI for Biodiversity

Panels
🌏 Opportunities for ML for Climate Action in Asia
☀️ Data-Centric ML in Climate Applications

www.climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...

Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

ICLR 2025 Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

www.climatechange.ai

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 24

Loving this poster session energy! #ICLR2025

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 23

Who is jetlagged and ready to ROCK!? #ICLR2025

Let's gooooo!!!! 😱😱💪💪

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 23

📢📢 Junior researchers attending #ICLR2025, be sure to check out the mentoring chat sessions!

More info here:
blog.iclr.cc/2025/04/23/i...

You can find all the sessions on the ICLR.cc schedule!

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 16

For #ICLR2025, we piloted an LLM that provided optional feedback to some reviewers. Results are promising: over 12K suggestions were incorporated by reviewers to improve review quality. See our blog post for details and more analysis blog.iclr.cc/2025/04/15/l...

Leveraging LLM feedback to enhance review quality – ICLR Blog

blog.iclr.cc

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Apr 23

To be fair we did some steep gradient ascent from last year 😂

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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · Apr 23

The calm before the storm #ICLR2025 🔥🔥🔥

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Apr 22

On my way to Singapore for #ICLR2025. My first (and hopefully last) time General Chairing a major AI conference 😂

Looking forward to exciting conversations about frontiers of AI, its impact to science and engineering, and new opportunities!

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Apr 20

I use the goldfish strategy.

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