If you're going to be in Vienna for #ICLR2024 , check out Mentoring Chats. It's a unique opportunity to chat with senior researchers and ask them about their journey and research. We have an exciting line up of mentors! See here for more details: blog.iclr.cc/2024/05/01/hug…

Come, study, and get a Ph.D. with us at AI at Meta! Let’s make LLMs more useful together for everyone!

Positions are 4-year fixed-term in London - jointly supervised by academics from UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence and researchers at FAIR.

metacareers.com/jobs/487527087…

Meta UCL MetaOpenSource

From the recent announcements, hard not to feel NeurIPS Conference is accelerating away from a 'research conf in ML' and towards a 'general public World Fair on AI, everyone welcome, we have fairy floss on level 2 and Hollywood thought leaders on 3, peer-reviewed research in Annex 67B'

The proceedings of ALT 2024 are out 📚
Thanks daniel hsu for the great collaboration on the program, and thanks to all authors and attendees who made this event so cool in San Diego this winter.
Stay tuned for ALT 2025!

📢 Two PhD positions in our group, the Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory group (SACT) at Engineering Sydney Uni, w/ Joachim Gudmundsson (@JoachimGudmunds)& André van Renssen

Area: computational geometry, esp. geometric graphs, spanners, graph augmentation, and routing

(link below)

If you have cool work on anything Bayesian accepted at a recent conference, come and present it at AABI via our super easy and streamlined fast-track submission!

As soon as I arrived in Singapore I registered to the French embassy so that I can vote for the 2024 European Parliament election.

To all my friends from 🇪🇺, please vote 🙏

So much amazing material. This year blog posts are 💎

My ICLR 2024 blog post is now out! I review TabPFN, a meta-learned Transformer that does tabular classification via in-context learning instead of backprop / SGD. (Link is in alt text of photo.)

Another 🔥 ICLR blogpost from Costa Huang, this time on the details of RLHF. So. Many. Details.
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2024/blog/the-…

🚀Exciting news! Our Python package, skglm, is pushing back the limits of sklearn
Last week two industrial feedbacks revealed that it solves problems in seconds that sklearn struggled with for hours

So happy to see our academic work have such impact!

github.com/scikit-learn-c…

Are you/do you have/do you know a TCS student who would would benefit from attending #STOC2024 ? The call for travel support is up: acm-stoc.org/stoc2024/trave…
Deadline ⏰ April 20th, 2024

Don't self-censor! You miss all the travel grants you don't apply for.

to commemorate my duties as #COLT2023 chair, i have ceremonially submitted my reviews 2 days *before* the deadline this year. a historical first for me, to honor the #COLT2024 chairs Aaron Roth& Shipra Agrawal🥂
consider saving them & the ACs from a severe anxiety attack by following suit

What a great workshop today at our Tübingen Women in Machine Learning event! It's nice to see so many of you get together on International Women's Day to discuss science, chat and network. Ulrike Luxburg Claire Vernade Michela Petriconi Katharina Eggensperger Albane Ruaud Intelligent Systems #twiml

Big update to #optax ! v0.2.0 is out with backtracking line-search 🚀 This means learning-rate free optimizers like Armijo SGD are now easier than ever to implement. What experiments will you try first?