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Antti Honkela

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Computer science 46%
Biology 34%
ahonkela.bsky.social
@iclr-conf.bsky.social regarding your LLM policy, can you please confirm that one does not need to have an LLM usage section in the main body of the paper if LLMs did not play a significant role as defined here?
Extract of ICLR LLM use policy with the following text highlighted: "However, new this year, if LLMs played a significant role in research ideation and/or writing to the extent that they could be regarded as a contributor, then authors should describe the precise role of the LLM in the main body of the paper in a separate section on LLM usage."

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elsa-ai.eu
Happy to share the recap of the #health #privacy #session at #CAMDA2025 by our amazing team!

elsa-ai.eu/the-health-p...

#ELSAAI #research #challenge #safeandsecure #AI

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differentialprivacy.org
$( varepsilon, δ)$ Considered Harmful: Best Practices for Reporting Differential Privacy Guarantees
Juan Felipe Gomez, Bogdan Kulynych, Georgios Kaissis, Jamie Hayes, Borja Balle, Antti Honkela
http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10945
$( varepsilon, δ)$ Considered Harmful: Best Practices for Reporting Differential Privacy Guarantees
Juan Felipe Gomez, Bogdan Kulynych, Georgios Kaissis, Jamie Hayes, Borja Balle, Antti Honkela
http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10945
Current practices for reporting the level of differential privacy (DP)
guarantees for machine learning (ML) algorithms provide an incomplete and
potentially misleading picture of the guarantees and make it difficult to
compare privacy levels across different settings. We argue for using Gaussian
differential privacy (GDP) as the primary means of communicating DP guarantees
in ML, with the full privacy profile as a secondary option in case GDP is too
inaccurate. Unlike other widely used alternatives, GDP has only one parameter,
which ensures easy comparability of guarantees, and it can accurately capture
the full privacy profile of many important ML applications. To support our
claims, we investigate the privacy profiles of state-of-the-art DP large-scale
image classification, and the TopDown algorithm for the U.S. Decennial Census,
observing that GDP fits the profiles remarkably well in all three cases.
Although GDP is ideal for reporting the final guarantees, other formalisms
(e.g., privacy loss random variables) are needed for accurate privacy
accounting. We show that such intermediate representations can be efficiently
converted to GDP with minimal loss in tightness.

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steglelab.bsky.social
⏰ A quick reminder that Track I of the Health Privacy Challenge is still running strong, exploring privacy preservation in bulk RNA-seq datasets! We’re excited to see the innovative solutions Blue Teams and Red Teams will bring to the competition! #🫐🍅 #CAMDAConference #ISMB/ECCB2025

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steglelab.bsky.social
Exciting News! 🚀 We’re pleased to launch Track II of the Health Privacy Challenge 🫐🍅, focused on single-cell data! We invite the participants to explore the privacy and utility of synthetic single-cell RNA-seq data! #CAMDAConference
Register to participate: benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu?ch=4
Overview - Health - ELSA Benchmarks Platform
benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu

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ellisinstitute.fi
Call for Principal Investigators in #machinelearning & #artificialintelligence closes in 2 weeks! Why apply?
- Professorship affiliation at universities in Finland
- Research infrastructure incl. @lumi-supercomputer.eu
- Generous startup package
- @ellis.eu network
➡️ www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit
Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland
Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning
www.ellisinstitute.fi

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samikaski.bsky.social
I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit
Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland
Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning
ellisinstitute.fi

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lacerbi.bsky.social
1/ 🎉 We launched the *Helsinki Probabilistic Machine Learning Lab*, which combines multiple research groups at @univhelsinkics.bsky.social - and part of FCAI and ELLIS - working on, guess what, Probabilistic ML and AI.

And we are hiring! Please repost!

Website: www.helsinki.fi/probabilisti...
Helsinki Probabilistic Machine Learning Lab

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icthiit.bsky.social
We are now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellows (3 years) or Research Fellows (5 years) in ICT. Deadline 2 February at 11:59 PM Finnish time
Find out more information @ shorturl.at/uMk4i #postdocjob #postdoc #artificialintelligence #datascience #bioinformatics #algorithms #AcademicSky
HIIT Postdoctoral and Research Fellow positions
Apply now HIIT Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in ICT The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Fellows. HI...
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ahonkela.bsky.social
Very interesting challenge on privacy of synthetic data organised together with @steglelab.bsky.social and other ELSA project partners.

Please spread the word!
steglelab.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce The Health Privacy Challenge, an interactive opportunity for advancement at the intersection of computational biology and privacy research, brought to you as a part of CAMDA Conference at #ISMB/ECCB2025 🫐🍅
Register to participate: benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu?ch=4
Overview - Health - ELSA Benchmarks Platform
benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu

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steglelab.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce The Health Privacy Challenge, an interactive opportunity for advancement at the intersection of computational biology and privacy research, brought to you as a part of CAMDA Conference at #ISMB/ECCB2025 🫐🍅
Register to participate: benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu?ch=4
Overview - Health - ELSA Benchmarks Platform
benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu
ahonkela.bsky.social
This would be rather suboptimal for those living further away from big centers or working in an area where most of the relevant community is elsewhere. Unfortunately we need common meetings to avoid fragmenting the community.

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maosbot.bsky.social
I have seen some anti-peer-review takes on here, and, believe me, I understand the frustrations, but I would urge caution before doing or publicly saying anything too drastic. We live in age rife with misinformation and anti-intellectualism—not everyone wants academia to survive
ahonkela.bsky.social
Risk is twofold: 1) Europeans risk losing access to models developed outside Europe, while 2) European researchers face significant additional burden to comply with the rules. This risks violating the freedom of research.

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