Opportunity at Imperial College for a two year Schmidt "AI in Science" postdoc: www.imperial.ac.uk/ix-ai-in-sci... If you know someone who might be interested, please tell them to contact me. The internal departmental deadline is the 3rd of July.

As an academic, I have always been very concerned of the costs to our students of private renting. This act is an important step in the right direction. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renters' Rights Act: What it means for tenants and landlords

The biggest shake up of renting rules in England for 30 years affects millions of people.

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Interesting. I like in particular the idea of "taste" and the advice to grad students: www.anthropic.com/research/vib...

Vibe physics: The AI grad student

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

anthropic.com

Yesterday we had the pleasure of having my former PhD advisor, Martin Vetterli, visiting me. We took advantage of the occasion to take a picture with my current student.

I am very excited about our new paper on Computational Lightfield Microscopy for Calcium Imaging which has just appeared in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Light-field deep learning enables high-throughput, scattering-mitigated calcium imaging | PNAS

Light-field microscopy (LFM) enables high-throughput functional imaging by scanlessly encoding entire volumes in single snapshots. However, LFM’s c...

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It looks like I have to add Wiley to the list of publishers I refuse to publish with or review for 🤷🏻‍♂️

Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

We are hiring. We have a post-doc position on machine learning for large-scale shared representations of dynamic environments with a focus on developing novel neural distributed compression algorithms. Please spread the news, opening here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time. This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says

The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

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very happy that our paper on memorization in diffusion models: "Tracing the Roots: Leveraging Temporal Dynamics in Diffusion Trajectories for Origin Attribution" has been accepted at #NeurIPS2025

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

Naomi Alderman@naomialderman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

yes. yes yes. the UK is (not just the originator but) the setting for some of the most popular culture in the world. there is a whole genre of videogames that are set in an imagined Britain. 'soft' power is real economic and even political power.

#BookSky

If you are at #ICML2025 come to our spotlight poster "LotteryCodec: Searching the Implicit Representation in a Random Network for Low-Complexity Image Compression" on Thursday: eedavidwu.github.io/LotteryCodec/

as someone only able to use the left hand, I'm really looking forward to attending this concert (is it too late for me to become a great pianist like Nicholas McCarthy? 😏): www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Left turns: How a terrible war injury led to the birth of one-handed piano music

After losing his arm in the first world war, pianist Paul Wittgenstein commissioned extraordinary new works that he could perform with just his left hand. I’m aiming to keep his incredible legacy aliv...

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new preprint on diffusion posterior sampling using invertible neural networks is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2505.12935

LatentINDIGO: An INN-Guided Latent Diffusion Algorithm for Image Restoration

There is a growing interest in the use of latent diffusion models (LDMs) for image restoration (IR) tasks due to their ability to model effectively the distribution of natural images. While significan...

arxiv.org

Ingrid Daubechies' Bakerian lecture is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0Y...

How mathematicians are helping art historians | The Royal Society

YouTube video by The Royal Society

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There's a lot of big news today/this week, but Apple just dropped a nuke of a paper about LLMs & LRMs, specially around "high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse." This is the biggest sign yet that if AI ever lives up the hype, it won't be via those approaches:

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

machinelearning.apple.com

I am very happy that The Bakerian Medal and Lecture 2025 is awarded to Ingrid Daubechies and I am looking forward to attending her lecture tomorrow: royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

Bakerian Medal and Lecture | Royal Society

This prize lecture is the premier lecture in the physical sciences.

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I thoroughly enjoyed the EEE Alumni Event organized by @imperialeee.bsky.social It’s inspiring to hear successful young professionals with a PhD with us speak openly also about their personal failures and rejections. When such honesty comes from accomplished individuals, it feels even more powerful.

I have cleaned up the notebooks for my course on Optimal Transport for Machine Learners and added links to the slides and lecture notes. github.com/gpeyre/ot4ml

This is a good article. It's so easy to generate results with AI tools that we are rushing to publish them without doing the hard work of checking that they really hold up. This problem predates AI though. So much computational modelling has the same problems www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...

I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me

I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

understandingai.org

I have cleaned a bit my lecture notes on Optimal Transport for Machine Learners arxiv.org/abs/2505.06589

Optimal Transport for Machine Learners

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributi...

arxiv.org

The 2025 call for the Imperial College Research Fellowships (ICRFs) is now open (www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and...). Any top researcher with less than four years of Post-doc experience and interested in computational imaging is welcome to contact me.

Imperial College Research Fellowships

The Imperial College Research Fellowship (ICRF) scheme is designed for outstanding early career researchers looking for an opportunity to focus on re...

imperial.ac.uk

just back from the party to celebrate the reopening of the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery. The Gallery in the evening is as stunning as ever. The new wing will open to the public on Saturday.

Our research group in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel (Switzerland) is looking for several PhD candidates and one post-doc who have a theoretical background in optimization and machine learning or practical experience in the field of reasoning.

Universität Basel: Post-doc position in the field of Optimization and Deep Learning Theory

The Optimization of Machine Learning Systems Group (Prof. A. Lucchi) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel is looking for one post-doctorate to work in the a...

jobs.unibas.ch

When I have time, I enjoy walking around relatively unexplored areas of London. This is the Three Mills along "The Line Sculpture Trail"

It's not often that you get to spend two days discussing bio-imaging challenges with Nobel Prize winners. Hence, this photograph 😏

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

wired.com

Very happy to be participating in this Wellcome Trust workshop on barriers and challenges in bio-imaging. The team includes top scientists and Nobel prize winners! Learned a lot in day one and looking forward to day two.

Characterizing finely the decay of eigenvalues of kernel matrices: many people need it, but explicit references are hard to find. This blog post reviews amazing asymptotic results from Harold Widom (1963!) and proposes new non-asymptotic bounds. francisbach.com/spectrum-ker...

Our pre-print on image transmission using joint source-channel coding techniques and generative diffusion models is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.12484

SING: Semantic Image Communications using Null-Space and INN-Guided Diffusion Models

Joint source-channel coding systems based on deep neural networks (DeepJSCC) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in wireless image transmission. Existing methods primarily focus on minim...

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