Today I learned a student of mine from China gave up waiting for his Canadian visa after over a year without updates: 1. He was a Vector Scholarship awardee. 2. He had to set aside $20K under the Direct Stream (for faster visa processing), despite being my funded student. 3. He

This is apparently not a single case. IRCC attention please: Canada needs more talents in AI, but why do we keep delaying visa for them without clear reasons?

The same happened to me every year. Last year I have 5 offers accepted, only 2 can come. Canada is losing talents.

This seems to be a recurring story at the start of this academic year. It seems to target a few countries, more transparency would be welcome to advise students.

Mark Carney Doug Ford

I posted the same thing two years ago. So sad that things are getting even worse.

NVIDIA research will present a few NLP works at ACL 2025 ACL 2025 at Austria 🇦🇹 NEKO: Cross-Modality Post-Recognition Error Correction with Tasks-Guided Mixture-of-Experts LM Industry Session Oral, Hall L 11:00 to 12:30 CET, Monday aclanthology.org/2025.acl-indus… (Yenting Lin

I'm being featured on the University of Waterloo main site at uwaterloo.ca today! uwaterloo.ca/news/mathemati… Is it possible for a professor to successfully bridge academic research and industry innovation? The answer, it turns out, is Yupp

Yeah… this is why we usually call it “Non-autoregressive sequence generation” in early days! 👀 nar-tutorial.github.io/acl2022/

Neel Nanda Hehe we did in fact call it a scratchpad when we originally came up with the idea: arxiv.org/abs/2112.00114

Is it now common to assume all reviewers are irresponsible and start to threaten them before deadline?

When Sam Altman told me at the AI summit in Paris that they were serious about releasing open-source models & asked what would be useful, I couldn’t believe it. But six months of collaboration later, here it is: Welcome to OSS-GPT on Hugging Face! It comes in two sizes, for both

Totally agree. I really wish reviewers could focus more on being constructive rather than judgmental. What's especially frustrating is how rebuttal often feels like trying to please reviewers. I recently pointed out a factual error in a reviewer's claim, and unsurprisingly, it

Really cool to see Cursor expanding into terminal! I've always felt that terminal interaction is a missing piece in data collection for code LLMs: models are mostly trained on static github repos, but we developers constantly interleave coding and observing terminal outputs.

Our new paper Digital Discovery is out💡Kyunghyun Cho Angelica Chen Do LLMs capture intrinsic chemistry, beyond string representations? Across SMILES & IUPAC: ❌ SOTA models: very low consistency (<1%) ⚖️ 1-to-1 mapped finetune ↑ consistency, not accuracy Read: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Just learned I've been permanently banned from r/MachineLearning on Reddit. I cannot figure out why. It seems to be for the attached post I made about ManusAI's blogpost, but I do not see which rule it violates. Does anyone have a guess why? Does anyone know any