Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University
@philiptorr.bsky.social
Professor Oxford in Machine Learning Involved in many start ups including FiveAI, Onfido, Oxsight, AIStetic. Eigent, etc I occasionally look here but am mostly on linkedin, find me there, www.linkedin.com/in/philip-torr-1085702
Official annoucement here, excited to be joining this set of fellows as a Schmidt AI2050 Fellow www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-...
Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society - Schmidt Sciences
Media Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences announced today that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit hu...
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this looks great, but i have the strange urge to share it without fully reading it.
Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last yr.Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice! “virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”
This seems a bit like punishing the victims rather than perpetrators
Dinner to celebrate Oxford's Deep Mind scholars with Deep Mind founder, Demis Hassabis, and new incoming PhD, Anda! Thanks to Deep Mind and Demis for generously supporting so many students. In the beautiful Divinity school of Oxford.
New Ellison institute at Oxford, set to bring, 100 or 1000s of jobs, lnkd.in/e6HA-_ZP
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uper happy to be one of the organizers of this, eurips.cc, now an option to officially present your papers in Europe and save greenhouse gas!!!!! Please repost and spread the word!!! Please repost!!!!
EurIPS Copenhagen 2025 - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Co-authored with: Isaac Friend, Keir Reid, Igor Krawczuk, Vincent Wang, @jakobmokander.bsky.social kander.bsky.social , @philiptorr.bsky.social , Julia C Morse and Robert Trager
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Malware malbec and gummie bears!
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As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time. | Philip Torr, FR...
As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time.
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Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder has picked up on our paper on how to fool AI agents, you can watch her desrcibing our work here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY7_....
AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready?
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Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers Wei Pang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, @edwardjian.bsky.social, Xi He, @philiptorr.bsky.social tl;dr: great stuff! arxiv.org/abs/2505.21497
Had the privilege of speaking at Oxford Brookes graduation today, was really fun event, and inspiring to see. Amazing to see people off on their, hopefully, exciting journeys.
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Just about to speak at this to promote UK PLC! www.linkedin.com/posts/polly-...
#policy #universities #tech #researchers #professionals #ai | Polly Benjamin
📢 Are you an AI researcher or engineer looking for your next career move? Join leading UK AI business professionals and academics on a webinar on 14th May to explore the strength of the UK’s AI sector...
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Read more: cemde.github.io/Domain-Certi... Thanks to my amazing collaborators: - @alasdair-p.bsky.social, Preetham Arvind, @maximek3.bsky.social, Tom Rainforth, @philiptorr.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk - Bernard Ghanem at KAUST - Thomas Lukasiewicz at @tuwien.at. (7/7)
Shh, don't say that! Domain Certification in LLMs
Domain Certification - A novel framework providing provable, adversarial defenses for LLMs safety.
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Cooperation on AI safety is necessary but also comes with potential risks. In our new paper, we identify technical AI safety areas that present comparatively lower security concerns, making them more suitable for international cooperation—even between geopolitical rivals. lnkd.in/e_FzCFW9
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We will be hosting a live Q&A to discuss our project on April 10 at 11:30AM BST. Join here: lu.ma/encode-proje... More about the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship: encode.pillar.vc/blog-posts/f...
Encode Project Q&A – AI for Drug Discovery · Zoom · Luma
Join us for a virtual info session to learn more about the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship. 🧪 This session will feature Philip Torr, one of of our faculty…
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I wanted to coin the "Torr Law", which is that if you think of a research idea, it will magically appear on the internet within a few days, case in point, this is a cool first step on the way to making AI scientists paperswithcode.com/paper/bench-...
Papers with Code - @Bench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Human-centered Assistive Technology
No code available yet.
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Excited to be working with the UK Excited to be work with the UK AI Security Institute, even more important than normal in these turbulent times. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
Strengthening AI Resilience | AISI Work | Philip Torr
Excited to be work with the UK AI Security Institute, even more important than normal in these turbulent times.
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📄 Dive In: paperhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19964. Work led by @lovisheindrich.bsky.social - [Lovis is in the job market, you should hire him, he is great!] and thanks to @philiptorr.bsky.social and @vthost.bsky.social for advising.
Do Sparse Autoencoders Generalize? A Case Study of Answerability
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising approach in language model interpretability, offering unsupervised extraction of sparse features. For interpretability methods to succeed, they m...
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🏛️ This work was made possible with OATML and TVG at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). Special thanks to @yaringal.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, and @alasdair-p.bsky.social for their contributions. 📖 Read the paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10809
Attacking Multimodal OS Agents with Malicious Image Patches
Recent advances in operating system (OS) agents enable vision-language models to interact directly with the graphical user interface of an OS. These multimodal OS agents autonomously perform computer-...
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Stable Virtual Camera: Generative View Synthesis with Diffusion Models Jensen (Jinghao)Zhou, Hang Gao, Vikram Voleti, @adyaman.bsky.social, Chun-Han Yao, @markboss.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, Christian Rupprecht, Varun Jampani arxiv.org/abs/2503.14489
this is a great idea, having a parallel Neurips in Europe is long over due, especially as travel to the US is difficult now for a lot of scientists. Thoughts? www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
NeurIPS participation in Europe | Philip Torr | 10 comments
this is a great idea, having a parallel Neurips in Europe is long over due, especially as travel to the US is difficult now for a lot of scientists. Thoughts?… | 10 comments on LinkedIn
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This is an amazing opportunity, please repost We have two visiting posts open in collaboration with Pillar,VC. You'll get: - £115k salary - £100k compute - Access to AI models, tools, and agent systems, pls repost www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
Reposting this opportunity as it is a great one! | Philip Torr
Reposting this opportunity as it is a great one!
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Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
Note Oxford has advertized many AI positions including a new faculty position, lnkd.in/eGYekxGy, see more here eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/
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