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human being | assoc prof in #ML #AI #Edinburgh | PI of #APRIL | #reliable #probabilistic #models #tractable #generative #neuro #symbolic | heretical empiricist | he/him 👉 https://april-tools.github.io
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great to have David Watson (dswatson.github.io) visiting us today and talking about #trustworthy #AI #ML for tabular data with #trees and #circuits with connections to #generative modeling, #causality and #fast inference!

The NeurIPS Call for Workshops is now live. Proposals are due May 30 AoE, with acceptance notification on July 4 AoE. neurips.cc/Conferences/...
 If you plan to submit a proposal for a workshop, please read our detailed guidance in our new blog post: blog.neurips.cc/2025/04/12/g...

"This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

props to that reviewer who just spotted that several references of a survey did not exist! very likely that those refs and (part of) the manuscript have been generated by LLMs without authors thoroughly checking.

Large language models are less effective at clinical prediction tasks than locally trained machine learning models academic.oup.com/jamia/advanc... #llms #machinelearning #MLSky (not surprising but important to document)

props to that reviewer who just spotted that several references of a survey did not exist! very likely that those refs and (part of) the manuscript have been generated by LLMs without authors thoroughly checking.

is this the American dream?

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

Make sure to get your tickets to AABI if you are in Singapore on April 29 (just after #ICLR2025) and interested in probabilistic modeling, inference, and decision-making! Tickets (free but limited!): lu.ma/5syzr79m More info: approximateinference.org #Bayes #MachineLearning #ICLR2025 #AABI2025

Check out Neehar Kondapaneni's upcoming ICLR 2025 work which proposes a new approach for understanding how two neural networks differ by discovering the shared and unique concepts learned by the networks. Representational Similarity via Interpretable Visual Concepts arxiv.org/abs/2503.15699

""" transactions processed through [this app using #AI] were, at times, manually completed by contractors in the Philippines and Romania and, at other times, completed by bots. """ www.notebookcheck.net/AI-shopping-...

Passing by luxury clothing retailers (Gucci, Prada, etc), I feel lucky that CS researchers don't waste money to play these types of vapid status games. Anyway, this is Dr. Prof. Kamath (rank-n university) thrilled to announce my group's 23 accepted NeurIPS papers!!!!

oh good, that will take care of the *checks notes* zero Chinese vehicles sold in the US

and what a great #PhD summer school! Thanks @jesfrellsen.bsky.social @pamattei.bsky.social and @jmtomczak.bsky.social for organizing it (and having me). Amazing talks, interactions, location and food 💙

Love the sentiment but wtf is this data graphic

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

Baden-Württemberg has set up a postdoc program for researchers whose research is obstructed by politics if the project relates to an existing research focus. If you are affected by researching AI and Simulation (www.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de) or Ethics and AI (www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de), DM me.

10/10 Onion headline

Mark your calendars ! 🏔️Machine Learning Autumn School at Aussois (France). 🏔️ 16-21 nov 2025. Submission deadline to present your work via talk or poster: 28th of April. mlataussois.sciencesconf.org Great line-up of speakers ! ⬇️

What is reasoning and have LLMs learned it? We answer these two questions in our new pre-print using the phase transition in random 3-SAT. arxiv.org/abs/2504.039... Together with @rishihazra95.bsky.social, @gabventurato.bsky.social and @lucderaedt.bsky.social Here is also a longer thread:

The audacity of Columbia to send me all these fundraising emails. I’ve never hit delete faster.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

...don’t know if you noticed, but reviews are out! 👀 Good luck with your rebuttal, you're almost there! 🍀

if I were an author and I had a big TV adaptation in the works I prolly wouldn’t tweet that ace people can fuck off on asexual awareness day AND the day the creator of one of the biggest shows on a competing network came out as ace, but clearly I lack the Brains Genious of jowling kowling rowling

garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of-llms-mastering-math-have : "[T]he AIs were never able to recognize when they had not solved the problem. In every case, rather than give up, they confidently output a proof that had a large gap or an outright error.”

the most succinct and informative figure demonstrating the relationship between academic science and biotechs by @yisongyue.bsky.social

and what a great #PhD summer school! Thanks @jesfrellsen.bsky.social @pamattei.bsky.social and @jmtomczak.bsky.social for organizing it (and having me). Amazing talks, interactions, location and food 💙

🥇 Accepted workshops are out! www.auai.org/uai2025/work... Get ready for a day of great talks, panels, and discussions on causality, tractable models, and safe AI. Don't forget to submit your work, and see you in Rio! 🇧🇷

this.

now everyone can give Open ai their images for free

I like this year's @icmlconf.bsky.social rebuttal format! 🏃 Only two rounds, limited characters per answers and more energy preserving than the one at @iclr-conf.bsky.social last year 🤕

Now, the fantastic @jmtomczak.bsky.social is telling us about probabilistic circuits at GeMSS/Statlearn 2025 @gemssai.bsky.social

to all reviewers who kindly accepted the invitation to review for #UAI2025 🙏, you can do it! one more push! 🦾 and if you have trouble submitting your reviews by Monday 24th AoE... please contact ⚡ immediately ⚡ your area chair!