Not long ago, breakthroughs in AI research often came from lone academics or small teams using desktop hardware. These days, not so much. Are you anxious about how to stay competitive in AI as an academic? Georgios N. Yannakakis and I wrote this piece for you: arxiv.org/abs/2304.06035

Proud that our work on how collaborators push scientists to switch topics has been selected for a plenary talk at IC2S2 in Copehagen. Fun collaboration with Sara Venturini, @satyaki30, Francesco Rinaldi and Francesco Tudisco. The paper is just out on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2304.06826

Preprint alert for all hypergraph lovers (or haters): We introduce a method to learn whether we need more than pairwise interactions to represent the underlying structure of a dynamical system. Joint work with Michael Scholkemper Francesco Tudisco Michael Schaub arxiv.org/abs/2306.01813

Excited to host Lorenzo Rosasco @lrntzrsc and Agnese Seminara @AgneseSeminara from MaLGa at GranSassoScienceInst for a fantastic lecture series on Learning and Navigating Dynamical Systems

La risposta delle allieve e degli allievi della Scuola Normale al lutto nazionale

The ILAS Early Career Speakers (a prize supported by Elsevier) in Madrid:  Teresa Conde, Andreas Bluhm, Massimiliano Fasi, Luyining Gan, Giovanni Barbarino! Many congratulations! #ILAS2023 #mathematics #linearalgebra Elsevier News

Mathematician at an AI conference.

JOBS!!! Chancellor’s Fellowships (5-year tenure track lecturer/reader positions) now advertised in the School of Maths at the University of Edinburgh. Areas of interest: Data Science and AI; Climate and Environmental Sustainability; Health and Life. See: maths.ed.ac.uk/school-of-math…

They proposed a workshop for #NeurIPS2012 on fairness in machine learning. It was rejected. Why? Not clear if anyone would be interested.

New blog post: Yet Another ICML Award Fiasco The story of the ICML Conference 2023 Outstanding Paper Award to the D-Adaptation paper with worse results that the ones from 9 years ago Please share it to start a needed conversation on mistakenly granted awards parameterfree.com/2023/08/30/yet…

Adversarial Robustness of Artificial Intelligence - bit.ly/3QEoKON Call for papers to form a special issue of Eur. J. App. Math.

Scientists can make their collaborators switch topics, especially if they are productive and highly cited! Check out our paper "Collaboration and topic switches in science", just out in Scientific Reports. IU Luddy @satyaki30 Francesco Tudisco rdcu.be/dvUcN

Introducing AlphaGeometry: an AI system that solves Olympiad geometry problems at a level approaching a human gold-medalist. 📐 It was trained solely on synthetic data and marks a breakthrough for AI in mathematical reasoning. 🧵 dpmd.ai/alphageometry

Fantastic quote and fantastic analogy

Working on this project was really fun and instructive! Also, Adit (Aaditya Ura) is insanely talented and currently looking for PhD positions -- catch him if you can! 🚀 (I'm available to help/co-sup via, e.g., ELLIS!)

Network science opportunity with fantastic supervisor Santo Fortunato 👇👇

Over 92% of authors of papers on Covid-19 knew nothing about infectious diseases! Problem or opportunity? Both! Read our comment, just out in Nature Human Behaviour . IU Luddy Dr. Majumder is writing 🖋 Francesco Tudisco S @satyaki30 nature.com/articles/s4156…

My understanding is that OpenAI heavily use Weco AI's codebase (AIDE, github.com/WecoAI/aideml) without giving proper credit -- they rebrand the benchmark as MLE-bench, use Weco AI's evaluation metrics, and their contribution is ~limited to adding o1-preview on top of it 🫤