The 15th edition of the Lisbon Machine Learnings School (LxMLS 2025) is looking for its monitor team. As always alumni are especially welcome. Apply before the month ends! bgmartins.github.io/lxmls-website-…

Super proud of what this team is doing! And I can’t wait to share more soon.

🎉Our Spurious Rewards is available on ArXiv! We added experiments on - More prompts/steps/models/analysis... - Spurious Prompts! Surprisingly, we obtained 19.4% gains when replacing prompts with LaTex placeholder text (\lipsum) 😶‍🌫️ Check out our 2nd blog: tinyurl.com/spurious-prompt

Lex Fridman you know what i learned? 1m qps is actually easier than 100k qps. at my last big tech wagie job, my last eng lead explained why the scale swallows up the errors the scale. swallows up the tails but the tails! the tails are people like me we are weird. we use the app, weird

All this "perplexity went down but benchmark did not go up" as if it was fully unexpected. It's "transfer learning" right? there should be a limit to the transfer, i.e. objectives are not the same.

Labs team and part of or org. for LxMLS2025. Starting our ... 🤔 ... 15th edition!

LxMLS dinner at Casa do Alentejo

A great week in Lisbon. Huge thanks to Andre Martins, Mario Figueiredo, Fernando, Zita, Bruno, Ramon Astudillo Mariana and all the organizers. Was good catching up with everyone this year including Desmond Kyunghyun Cho Maxime Peyrard.

wild.

Kawin Ethayarajh My uneducated guess is that the US numbers stayed pretty steady, but the Chinese submissions doubled.

Heading to #Interspeech2025! I’ll be involved in a tutorial, regular and special sessions (22 papers) & MLC-SLM workshop — and excited to chat about our new project: ESPnet3, CHiME-9, Urgent3, LARC, and YODAS++. If you’re interested, come say hi — let’s collaborate! 🚀

This is hepning in two hours!

If you think about when the first rumours of Q* started, it's like a year before O1-preview ... shouldn't we have heard something about the next thing already? not the best of signs?

Granite Embedding R2 Models are here! 🔥 8k context 🏆 Top performance on BEIR, MTEB, COIR, MLDR, MT-RAG, Table IR, LongEmbed ⚡Fast and lightweight 🎯 Apache 2.0 license (trained on commercial friendly data) Try them now on Hugging Face 👉 hf.co/ibm-granite

Peer review is at risk of disappearing mainly for reasons unrelated to the rise of bureaucrats to power on the orgs that coordinate/control it, but this is definitely making the situation far worse.

Is it me or that there has been an update to ChatGPT''s voice and now it sounds like it has difficulties speaking and breathing at the same time?

IMO the problem with telling young people "work very hard" is that, at best, it is a necessary but not sufficient condition. So much more is needed like knowing what you want, how to get there, what are your limits, people skills, etc. "Work hard" alone is a recipe for burnout.

If domain adaptation provides a moat against LLM providers is a million (billion) $ question. Watching Cursor's trajectory is probably one of the best ways to answer it.

Accepted at NeurIPS 2025! See you in San Diego! ☀️🌊

we finally have western qwen and you won't ever believe who this is.