I'm reading "Algorithmic Accountability for the Public Sector," by Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Now Institute, and Open Gov Partnership. opengovpartnership.org/documents/algo…

Excited to release the paper detailing our GNN developed for ETA prediction in Google Maps, as well as the various methods we employed for making it stable production-ready! Congrats to the whole team, esp. Austin and Jen who helped push this paper over the finish line! :)

Graph neural networks are one of the best-kept secrets of the deep learning revolution: a model class that both really works, to the point of creating actual commercial value, and gives a useful conceptual framework for thinking about deep learning.

This is so exciting for CU Denver and the MURP program. Congrats @PDez90! news.ucdenver.edu/rhodes-scholar…

Congratulations! Can’t wait to read it! Amia Srinivasan

Our (asynchronous, low commitment) NEH Digital Humanities course on the philosophy, and practice, of quantitative analysis in the humanities has 1000+ students and a very lively chat on the Discord. Join us! To receive a certificate on completion, join by Sept 15. faha.complexityexplorer.org

Call for nominations for National AI Advisory Committee which will advise the President and the National AI Initiative Office on a number of topics as they relate to AI. Includes subcommittee focused on AI and Law Enforcement. AAAI AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) commerce.gov/news/press-rel…

"Desiderata for Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective" (by Yixin Wang and Michael Jordan) formalizes representation learning desiderata using causal notions, with a focus on "efficiency" in supervised, and "disentanglement" in unsupervised learning arxiv.org/abs/2109.03795

Introducing the '21 DeepMind x UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence Reinforcement Learning Lecture Series, a comprehensive introduction to modern RL. Follow along with our researchers are they explore Markov Decision Processes, sample-based learning algorithms & much more: dpmd.ai/2021RLseries 1/2

AISTATS 2022 is now accepting submissions! We welcome papers on artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. To submit, follow cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AISTATS2022/ (and make sure to check the FAQs aistats.org/aistats2022/fa…)

I am so honoured and humbled to have my decade-long work and ideas on economic diversification in Africa profiled by Peter Coy for the The New York Times New York Times Opinion Very thankful for getting this platform to share these ideas. Read the piece here: nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opi…

Joan Bruna (@joanbruna) is one of the keynote speakers at the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2021. #DLBCN

How can we train RL agents that act optimally, *without* sharing any information between them through emergent conventions? "Off-Belief Learning" finally solves this! It takes the weirdness out of learning in Dec-POMDPs and is a huge leap for human-AI coordination & AI safety🤖🧑‍🔧

I'm very excited to share a Survey of Generalisation in Deep Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org/abs/2111.09794), written with Amy Zhang, Edward Grefenstette and Tim Rocktäschel. Curious about generalisation in RL? Then this is the survey for you! Here's a thread giving a quick overview...

Very excited for Ingmar Weber's talk in just a week at the Spring 22 MD4SG Colloquium series! details below 👇

Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda. Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children. 1/🧵

The Blueprint for an #AIBillofRights is for all of us: - Project managers designing a new product - Parents seeking protections for kids - Workers advocating for better conditions - Policymakers looking to protect constituents whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

1. It is with great sadness that we learn the news of Bruno Latour’s passing today. He was an intellectual giant, a friend, & someone whose work inspired me greatly. A thread for those who want to know more about this extraordinary life.

Great advice from @howardaldrich on using the literature in academic writing- as "interpretive notes", not summaries howardaldrich.org/2015/12/using-…