Really appreciated Joshua Gans' postmortem on an experiment in vibe researching joshuagans.substack.com/p/reflection... Taste is still paramount and the models are instruction-tuned to sycophancy to all hell

Reflections on Vibe Researching

My year-long experiment in AI first research

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🏹 Job alert: Postdoc in Human-Computer Interaction with Explainable AI at University of Copenhagen 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 📅 Apply by Feb 1st 🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=153139

Postdoc in Human-Computer Interaction with Explainable AI

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The promise of AI chat assistants: they solve 90% of the problems users have (by looking up the docs and telling them) My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor

I am happy to announce that our article "When Does Closeness in Distribution Imply Representational Similarity? An Identifiability Perspective" has been accepted at NeurIPS 2025! 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.037... Details below 👇

When Does Closeness in Distribution Imply Representational Similarity? An Identifiability Perspective

When and why representations learned by different deep neural networks are similar is an active research topic. We choose to address these questions from the perspective of identifiability theory, whi...

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Andrej Karpathy’s take on AI coding agents feels grounded. The industry’s chasing full autonomy when models still hallucinate too much. Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.

Good news everyone! I’ll be presenting the paper I did with Marco and Iuri "Prediction Hubs are Context-Informed Frequent tokens in LLMs" at the ELLIS UnConference on December 2nd in Copenhagen. arxiv.org/abs/2502.10201

Prediction hubs are context-informed frequent tokens in LLMs

Hubness, the tendency for a few points to be among the nearest neighbours of a disproportionate number of other points, commonly arises when applying standard distance measures to high-dimensional dat...

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AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics

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...

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Without any theory, machine learning has evolved a universal theory of data representation. Can we post-hoc rationalize it with math?

Boxes of numbers

Machine learning's universal theory of data representation

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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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PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding Department of Computer Science Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD f

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I wrote about the tragic death of Adam Raine and the venal negligence of "AI Safety." www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...

The Banal Evil of AI Safety

Chatbot companies are harmful and dishonest. How can we hold them accountable?

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🎓 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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"Paying for search changes the whole relationship between user, provider, search, and advertisers (the latter now being completely absent). It changes whom the provider is beholden to, their priorities, and ultimately search itself." blog.optional.page/misc/kagi/

Hi! Anyone remember when I was saying that it might be functionally impossible to operate as a trans academic in the US in ~3-5 months, say, 3-5 months ago?

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The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs

The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...

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Thank you to everyone who came to talk to us at ACL! Very happy that so many people are interested in our work :D If you didn’t manage to have a look yet: This work is relevant if you want to compare representations in language models, and it can be read here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.10201

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Open PhD positions in Denmark! daracademy.dk/fellowship/f... If you want to apply to work with me and Johannes Bjerva at @aau.dk Copenhagen, I'll be at @ic2s2.bsky.social this week and @aclmeeting.bsky.social next week! DM me if you'd like to meet :)

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1/ 🚨 New paper at #ICML2025! Identifying Latent Metric Structures in Deep Latent Variable Models 🎉 We solve part of the identifiability puzzle in generative models — using geometry. 🧵

Our paper "Prediction Hubs are Context-Informed Frequent Tokens in LLMs" has been accepted at ACL 2025! Main points: 1. Hubness is not a problem when language models do next-token prediction. 2. Nuisance hubness can appear when other comparisons are made.

📢 We are thrilled to introduce the ELLIS (@ellis.eu) x UniReps Speaker Series!📢 🔵🔴 Each monthly session features a 40-min Keynote talk and a 20min-Flash talk. 📜 You can nominate yourself or another researcher as a speaker by filling out the nomination form: forms.gle/EbHatQW7zoVi...

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

NeurIPS participation in Europe

We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

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DTU Compute is looking for an attractive group leader Tenure Track Assistant / Associate Professor in AI. The position comes with a start package funded by @aicentre.dk and will allow you to establish a group of junior scientists. 📅 Application deadline 30 April 2025 👉https://lnkd.in/dQxZ4hVh

🏹 Job alert: The PURRlab (Pattern Recognition Revisited lab) at the IT University of Copenhagen invites individuals to apply for 2 year PhD/Postdoc positions on evaluation metrics for multimodal health data. 📍 Copenhagen 📅 Apply by April 30 🔗 More info: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Multiple PhD and postdoc positions on evaluation metrics for multimodal health data at the IT University of Copenhagen

The PURRlab (Pattern Recognition Revisited lab) at the IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a PhD or a 2 year Postdoc p

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I still can't comprehend how an AC (a professor) accepts the role but then never responds back to emails and never completes their tasks😖! We need urgent 5 emergency reviewers to complete reviews for ACL by the end of today. Area: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness. Please reach out if you can help! Thanks🙏