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https://vita-group.github.io/ 👨‍🏫 UT Austin ML Professor (on leave) https://www.xtxmarkets.com/ 🏦 XTX Markets Research Director (NYC AI Lab) Superpower is trying everything 🪅 Newest focus: training next-generation super intelligence - Preview above 👶
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 31 days ago • 1664 comments

Since taking absence from my university role, students thrive even better: consistent conference productivity (NeurIPS ICLR etc basically on autopilot); two new PhD fellowships (NVIDIA, IBM); multiple paper awards; and most recently, several successful job placements including a new professor (HKU)

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I love this adorable lady’s narrative and hope it seen by more people 【Asians being seen 第二则-哔哩哔哩】 b23.tv/GZ4h0HO

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

current price to buy or invest a #GenAI startup: is it already too inflated?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Me: I’m feeling like my life on a busy shaky ferry😭 My junior student: Maybe a busy shaky ferry in new waters is better than a calm ferry always in the same waters #IAmEducated

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

medium.com/@brawlingoce...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The not-so-great-yet human intelligence wishes y’all Happy Holidays! 🎁🎄

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Hard at work on the AAMAS rebuttals. Yes reviewer 2 we.are looking at you

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

The not-so-great-yet human intelligence wishes y’all Happy Holidays! 🎁🎄

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

With o3 rocketing to (kinda) super-intelligence overnight, I’m prepping my fallback gig: selling “hand-crafted” research to anyone nostalgic for the pre-AI era. Turns out boutique history may be the only job left! #FutureProof #AIRevolution

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent post about the recent OpenAI o3 results on ARC (& other benchmarks). I don't know how @natolambert.bsky.social manages to write these so quickly! I highly recommend his newsletter. www.interconnects.ai/p/openais-o3... I am (more slowly) writing my own take on all this, coming soon.

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

@ruisicai.bsky.social was awarded NVIDIA graduate fellowship blogs.nvidia.com/blog/graduat... It marks the 8th PhD fellowship brought back to VITA group in the last 4 years🎇🎆 alongside NSF GRFP, Apple, Amazon, Adobe, IBM, Qualcomm, and Snap When students are too compelling, PI feels useless :(

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(1/n) My favorite "optimizer" work of 2024: 📢 Introducing APOLLO! 🚀: SGD-like memory cost, yet AdamW-level performance (or better!). ❓ How much memory do we need for optimization states in LLM training ? 🧐 Almost zero. 📜 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05270 🔗 GitHub: github.com/zhuhanqing/A...

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone’s saying #GenAI tools ‘unleash human creativity’— the new politically correct mantra! But are they empowering us, or just tricking us into creating better training data for themselves? 🤔 Who’s really learning here? #HumanVsMachine

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

fortune.com/2024/12/09/n... It’s exciting to see another pitch on neurosymbolic AI by @fortune.com , after one nice by @reuters.com last month I don’t believe we are already in the monotonic deceasing “convex optimization”-like path of AI. It’s always more fun to back & forth like good non-convex!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

(1/n) My favorite "optimizer" work of 2024: 📢 Introducing APOLLO! 🚀: SGD-like memory cost, yet AdamW-level performance (or better!). ❓ How much memory do we need for optimization states in LLM training ? 🧐 Almost zero. 📜 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05270 🔗 GitHub: github.com/zhuhanqing/A...

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

After using ChatGPT Pro ($200 paid) to help me write an ML data loader for a complex format, I’ve realized one thing: there’s no going back… It’s like having a 24/7 genius intern who doesn’t complain, never sleeps, and somehow gets me. 🤖💻 #AIcoding #GPT

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

Renaissance Philanthropy and XTX Markets have launched a $9.2 million "AI for Math fund" to support the development of new AI tools as long-term building blocks to advance mathematics. (I have agreed to serve on the advisory board for this fund.) renaissancephilanthropy.org/news-and-ins...

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Originally, I was a transformer — fully attending to all inputs. Now, after the baby arrived, I’ve downgraded to an SSM: barely retaining the last few… Wait, what was I saying? #NewParentLife #SleepDeprived

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Being faculty these days is really like "hey undergrad, please don't use chatgpt" "hey grad student, please just ask chatgpt"

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

#StandwithSouthKorea

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

BlueSky - this could be your 2010 Egyptian revolution moment. Need decent hashtag or similar to help people follow. @kfriedhoff.bsky.social is evidently one guy to follow, and @sarahjeong.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

🎉 #NeurIPS2024 is almost here, and the VITA group is bringing the heat (even if most of us are skipping the trip this year for family commitments, vacations...etc. Students and postdocs actually have lives! 😄) We’re thrilled to present 9 main conference papers, 5 workshop papers and a keynote talk:

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Seeing this from a quant finance textbook. Well said, calling out the pretense …

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments