Two more weeks to submit your work on tensors/low-rank factorizations in the workshop

Looks like an awesome workshop!

“And which great efficiency expert will lead this important new effort to streamline?” “Actually there will be two people in charge”

Looking forward to this talk!

Laura is an amazing researcher. Excited about this talk!

Wow! Awesome. Thanks so much to the authors for pulling this valuable information together in a beautiful and accessible form.

🥲 Current image diffusion models struggle to generate complex images such as "a mustachioed squirrel holding an ax-shaped guitar on a stage." 😎 Find a proxy prompt where rare associations are replaced with common ones, and alternate between the two prompts during generation!

LLM scaling, pretraining or test-time, has lost its magic when it comes to humor understanding. Despite advances from GPT-4 to o3, we've seen zero and sometimes negative progress on humor understanding of the New Yorker cartoons. 🧵Our new paper on how to unlock expert-level

Surprising to also see how STEM fine-tuning transfers to reasoning about humor and jokes!

... although we don't know if Grok 4 is consulting with the boss to dominate HumorBench, techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/gro… :)

Looking forward to seeing folks tomorrow afternoon!

Wow. Amazing progress. Congrats to the whole team!

Congratulations, Sharon!

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Congratulations, Jifan. Working with you has been super rewarding! I can't wait to see what you accomplish next.

This is incredible: In a blistering dismantling of HHS Secretary RFK Jr., Sen. Warnock noted that we're seeing child deaths from measles for the 1st time in decades. "You are a hazard to the health of the American people." Make sure everyone sees this.

MIT rejects Trump compact trib.al/G9mfAG6

Please share widely. The UW–Madison ECE Department is recruiting at the assistant, associate, or full professor in foundational AI and machine learning tinyurl.com/4kwh8mvm

Attended a talk today about the possibilitiy of AI systems having qualia, such as pain or pleasure. Reminded me of the great novel “Blindsight” by Peter Watts, that considered whether consciousness is necessary for intelligence. Maybe we already have our answer?