Happening today in the East Exhibit Hall #4306!

Announcing the Outstanding Papers for ALT 2025! We recognized four papers with this award. Congrats to all recipients! 1/5

machinelearning.apple.com/updates/apple-… Congrats to my amazing student Guanghui Wang (and of course, everyone else on this list. :)

Congratulations 🎉 to Guanghui Wang (Guanghui Wang) for being named a 2025 Apple Ph.D. Scholar in the company's artificial intelligence/machine learning fellowship program. Wang, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech School of Computer Science, is focused on researching machine learning theory,

This sounds great! Please consider submitting a proposal.

Heading to #ICLR2025 to present our SCSL workshop paper on understanding how last-layer retraining methods mitigate spurious correlations! openreview.net/pdf?id=B2W51aq… Stop by on Monday, April 28 to chat and learn more 🙂

My students Tyler LaBonte and Kuo-Wei Lai co-authored a really interesting work and will be presenting it at AISTATS in a couple of days! Check out Tyler's post for more details.

I have an opening for a post-doc position: I am looking for smart people with a strong CV in optimization and/or online learning All my ex post-docs (Kwang-Sung (Kwang) Jun, Mingrui Liu, and El Mehdi SAAD) became assistant professors, I'd like to continue this trend 😉 Please share it!

Announcing the first workshop on Foundations of Post-Training (FoPT) at COLT 2025! 📝 Soliciting abstracts/posters exploring theoretical & practical aspects of post-training and RL with language models! │ 🗓️ Deadline: May 19, 2025

This promises to be an awesome event!

Really enjoyed writing this review on the recently expanded landscape of human outer mitochondrial membrane protein biogenesis, its evolution across eukaryotes, and comparisons to the ER biogenesis systems! Jonathan Weissman's Lab nature.com/articles/s4155…

System is so broken: - researchers write papers no one reads - reviewers don't have time to review, shamed to coauthors, use LLMs instead of reading - authors try to fool said LLMs with prompt injection - evaling researchers based on # of papers (no time to read) Dystopic.