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We are hiring continuing academic in #cyber security! Come join one of Australia's best groups (brokenassumptions.org), alongside stars like @bipr.bsky.social, @shaananc.bsky.social, Olga Ohrimenko, Thuan Pham, Xingliang Yuan, & Sarah Erfani. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91947...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

CBA trials myGov ID verification www.cyberdaily.au/security/116...

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

Curious to see how they plan to anonymise our NHS data for training ML models. I personally wouldn’t know how to start doing that www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

If the UK can do it, why can't Australia? www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The NACC (Australia's Commonwealth attempt at an anti-corruption commission) has been quite the disappointment.

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Excited to co-organise another summer school on learning theory! This time in beautiful Odense, Denmark. Please share and apply here: event.sdu.dk/algoml2025

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

BoM data finds 2024 was Australia’s second-hottest year on record www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

I seem to be on a "defend LLMs for personal use" kick. It seemed like fun to see how I've used them in the past month. In most cases, I first did a search that proved useless (often, spending a long time following links that looked like they could be helpful…but weren't). ↵

submitted 58 days ago • 9 comments

I've been thinking about in-context learning for nearly 3 years. While there is still plenty I don't fully understand, five papers have--to a very large extent--shaped my perspective on it, and I believe everyone should read them.

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

Fuck no. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

submitted 62 days ago • 46 comments

📢 Outstanding PhD opportunity! The successful candidate will be based at The University of Manchester Dept. of CS ✨ to work on learning theory and methods for novel types of distributional shifts, co-supervised with @samikaski.bsky.social ⏳ DL 31.Jan.2025. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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As the year winds down, the summer sun shines and boxing day does its thing 🏏, reminder that if you want to follow #ComputerScience academics in Australia 🇦🇺 and NZ 🇳🇿, there's a starter pack perfect for you: go.bsky.app/N5x6GLQ

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

Loving the new Yayoi Kusama exhibition @ National Gallery Victoria #Melbourne

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Announcing the accepted papers for ALT 2025! It was a very competitive year, and we were able to accept only 51 of 144 submissions. Thanks to my co-chair Po-Ling Loh and the entire program committee for their hard work! See you in Milan in February! algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2025/acce...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is hiring a lecturer or reader in embodied natural language processing. Apply by 31 Jan 2025 at edin.ac/4fqgawg

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

I was on NPR with @bobbyallyn.bsky.social re Australia’s teen social media ban. Tests by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology found that age algorithms are off by an average of 5yrs for West Africans–discriminating in practice. 🎧 Take a listen! www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

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Found slides by Ankur Moitra (presented at a TCS For All event) on "How to do theoretical research." Full of great advice! My favourite: "Find the easiest problem you can't solve. The more embarrassing, the better!" Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/15VaT... TCS For all: sigact.org/tcsforall/

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I look forward to co-directing the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR with @catherineregis.bsky.social We will be designing the program in the coming months and will soon share ways to get involved with this new community. Read more here: cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

Now that @mkearnsphilly.bsky.social is here, this starter pack just became the real deal. Better refollow it. go.bsky.app/21nFz12

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Actual content post: Have not talked much about this work yet but we have a paper on Oracle-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Max Value Ensembles at this year's #NeurIPS. We provide an efficient algorithm to ensemble policies given a value function oracle. arxiv.org/abs/2405.16739

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Touching story of the innovations of an immigrant overcoming adversity. As with so many other skilled immigrants, Australia benefits. Short sighted to scape goat people who want to build a better society, economy and world. We should welcome them instead. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

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An advent calendar of some of my favourite TCS/Maths talks. Day #1: Avi Wigderson on Reading Alan Turing. It is a gem of a talk, full of insights about Turing's work, writing style, and influences on mathematics and computer science. Pure joy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uk_...

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

I'm excited about a new paper that gives tractable generalizations of Aumann's Agreement Theorem, with an eye towards human/model collaboration in machine learning. We can implement algorithms that can "converse" with people and quickly come to agreement on downstream actions. 🧵

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

Two weeks remaining to apply to this position. I'll also be at NeurIPS, if you want to chat you can DM or email me. :)

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Test-of-time award for Asiacrypt 2009 is awarded two amazing papers on lattice-based cryptography! Big congratulations to my former PhD supervisor and now close collaborator Ron Steinfeld and other recipients including Vadim Lyubashevsky and Damien Stehle!

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

It's 2040. ICLR rebuttal now lasts two years. Reviewer 2 still hasn't read your paper but has strong opinions about it

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

Want to learn / teach RL?   Check out new book draft: Reinforcement Learning - Foundations sites.google.com/view/rlfound... W/ Shie Mannor & Yishay Mansour This is a rigorous first course in RL, based on our teaching at TAU CS and Technion ECE.

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

The PCP theorem, a jewel of theoretical computer science, establishes that any NP statement can be assessed by a randomized verifier who only checks a vanishing fraction of the proof (indeed, a constant # of characters!) This has had incredible impact, most notably on how ML reviews are conducted

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On the TCS job market: Tamalika Mukherjee! Tamalika's research: (1) designing computationally efficient privacy-preserving algorithms for data analysis, (2) understanding their societal implications through the lens of equity and policy. Keywords: sublinear, DP 1/2 #TCSSky #AcademicJobMarket

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Hire Hao, he's great!

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Ensemble Everything Everywhere is a defense against adversarial examples that people got quite exited about a few months ago (in particular, the defense causes "perceptually aligned" gradients just like adversarial training) Unfortunately, we show it's not robust... arxiv.org/abs/2411.14834

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I noticed a lot of starter packs skewed towards faculty/industry, so I made one of just NLP & ML students: go.bsky.app/vju2ux Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!

submitted 97 days ago • 102 comments

It's tough to gain visibility as a young researcher, and it's job market season! Are you a theoretical computer science PhD/postdoc on the job market? I don't have a crazy juge audience but I'll try to help a bit: fill this form, and I'll tweet your pitch and info! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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By the way, did I mention that next year's IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW'25, will be in Sydney? I did not? Well, it'll be in Sydney! (I'm TPC co-chair, along with Ángela Capel Cuevas and Yingbin Liang) www.ieee-itw2025.org

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Help a lady out! Send me your favorite starter packs, please!

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

It is frankly ridiculous how the ARC toys with the time and job security of grant applicants over and over again. It demands rigid adherence to deadlines and criteria from applicants yet its own processes are vague and shifting

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The Australian Government is cramming through its under-16yrs old social media ban with an insane 24 hour period for public notice and comment!!! 🤯 Kudos to my team at unimelb for putting a submission together so fast.

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