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The official account of the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab) at UvA, co-directed by Max Welling and Jan-Willem van de Meent.

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Max Zhdanov @maxxxzdn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
🤹 New blog post! I write about our recent work on using hierarchical trees to enable sparse attention over irregular data (point clouds, meshes) - Erwin Transformer, accepted to ICML 2025 blog: maxxxzdn.github.io/blog/erwin/ paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019 Compressed version in the thread below:
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Don's miss this exciting opportunity! 🔥 🚨Application deadline on the 15th of June
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs at UvA @smaglia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
One more week to apply to this exciting position... and another position on #CausalRepresentationLearning and #ReinforcementLearning for learning provably correct #concepts from raw data opening up soon!
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs at UvA @smaglia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
New PhD position at the University of Amsterdam in @amlab.bsky.social on learning concepts with theoretical guarantees using #causality and #RL with me, Frans Oliehoek (TU Delft) and Herke van Hoof 💥 Deadline: 15 June werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position on Learning Concepts with Theoretical Guarantees Using Causality and RL
Are you interested in improving the interpretability, robustness and safety of current AI systems? If the answer is yes, please continue reading!
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🐳 Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching By @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social , @zmheiko.bsky.social , @sharvaree.bsky.social , @erikjbekkers.bsky.social , @wellingmax.bsky.social , @canaesseth.bsky.social *, @jwvdm.bsky.social * 📜 As above - paper TBA soon 😉 🧵8 / 8
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🌊 Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation By Andrés Guzmán-Cordero*, @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social *, @jwvdm.bsky.social 📜 This paper will be shared soon - keep your eyes open! 🤩 🧵7 / 8
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
⚠️ The Perils of Optimizing Learned Reward Functions: Low Training Error Does Not Guarantee Low Regret By Lukas Fluri*, @leon-lang.bsky.social *, Alessandro Abate, Patrick Forré, David Krueger, Joar Skalse 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2406.15753 🧵6 / 8
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🔁 SDE Matching: Scalable and Simulation-Free Training of Latent Stochastic Differential Equations By @gbarto.bsky.social , Dmitry Vetrov, @canaesseth.bsky.social 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.02472 🧵5 / 8
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📐 On the Importance of Embedding Norms in Self-Supervised Learning By Andrew Draganov, @sharvaree.bsky.social , Sebastian Damrich, Jan Niklas Böhm, Lucas Maes, Dmitry Kobak, @erikjbekkers.bsky.social 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.09252 🧵4 / 8
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
⚖️ A machine learning approach to duality in statistical physics By Prateek Gupta, Andrea Ferrari, @nabiliqbal.bsky.social 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2411.04838 🧵3 / 8
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🐸 Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems By @maxxxzdn.bsky.social , @jwvdm.bsky.social , @wellingmax.bsky.social 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019 🧵2 / 8
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Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems
Large-scale physical systems defined on irregular grids pose significant scalability challenges for deep learning methods, especially in the presence of long-range interactions and multi-scale couplin...
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Exciting news: AMLab is happy to have 7 papers accepted at #ICML2025! 🎉 See the thread below for the full list 📝 and meet us in Vancouver to discuss them further! 🇨🇦 🧵1 / 8
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🥇 3 Best Paper Awards for AMLab members! 1. Towards Variational Flow Matching on General Geometries by @olgatticus.bsky.social et al. 2. Generative Uncertainty in Diffusion Models by @metodjazbec.bsky.social et al. 3. SDE Matching by @gbarto.bsky.social et al. Congrats to everyone! 🔥
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Test of Time Winner Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization Diederik P. Kingma, Jimmy Ba Adam revolutionized neural network training, enabling significantly faster convergence and more stable training across a wide variety of architectures and tasks.
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Max Zhdanov @maxxxzdn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🤹 Excited to share Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems joint work with @wellingmax.bsky.social and @jwvdm.bsky.social preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019 code: github.com/maxxxzdn/erwin
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Mátyás Schubert @matyasch.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A few weeks ago, I presented SNAP at the wonderful #Bellairs Workshop on Causality in Barbados🐢 This Friday 🫰meets 🤌 as I will get to present SNAP again at the kick-off of the newest season of @causalclub.di.unipi.it! Check out this, and their other amazing upcoming talks at causalclub.di.unipi.it
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Olga Zaghen @olgatticus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Variational Flow Matching goes Riemannian! 🔮 In this preliminary work, we derive a variational objective for probability flows 🌀 on manifolds with closed-form geodesics, and discuss some interesting results. Dream team: Floor, Alison & Erik (their @ below) 💥 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.12981 🧵1/5
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs at UvA @smaglia.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Congratulations to "my" first PhD student Dr. @rmassidda.it who defended today at the University of Pisa *with honours* a thesis on "Methodological Advancements for Causal Abstraction Learning" 🎉 Riccardo is an amazing @ellis.eu PhD co-supervised w/ Davide Bacciu @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
💡 ➡️ 🧠 ➡️ 🚀
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Facts 💃🏻
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The Christmas spirit has arrived at AMLab! 🎄✨ Yesterday we kicked off the holidays with a festive group dinner and a fun Secret Santa exchange. 🎅 Wishing everyone a restful and joyful winter break and a happy new year! ❄️💫
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
looks can be deceiving! ;)
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Professor Imbens also had a mentoring session with our PhD students actively working on causality, discussing their ideas and the potential impact of their applications! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 @matyasch.bsky.social @roelhulsman.bsky.social @rmassidda.it @danruxu.bsky.social 🔥
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Yesterday, we had the honor of hosting 2021 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Guido Imbens, at our Lab! 🤩 We had the chance to attend his inspiring talk on Experimental Design in Marketplaces 📈👩‍💻 A big thank you to @smaglia.bsky.social for making this event possible 💥
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Grigory Bartosh @gbarto.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🧑‍🏫Neural Flow Diffusion Models at #NeurIPS2024 tomorrow! Discover how to build learnable noising processes for straight-line generative trajectories end-to-end and without simulations!🤯 📍West Ballroom A-D #6809 ⏰Fri 13 Dec 4:30 pm — 7:30 pm 🔗https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94656
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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Here are the dapper @metodjazbec.bsky.social and Alexander Timans, presenting their work on early-exit with risk control.
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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Come see @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social and @gbarto.bsky.social present their work on variational flow matching now in West Ballroom A-D #7103!
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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
François Cornet and @gbarto are presenting their work on Equivariant Neural Diffusion now at East Exhibition #2403!
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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Come talk to @zmheiko.bsky.social about his work on sample-efficient black box variational inference! (East Exhibition Hall #4105)
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Congrats to @smaglia.bsky.social for now being an ELLIS Scholar! 🤩🥳🎉
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🧑‍💻 Practical Shuffle Coding by Julius Kunze, Daniel Severo, @jwvdm.bsky.social , James Townsend 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93780 🧵12 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🪢FlowLLM: Flow Matching for Material Generation with Learned Base Distributions by Anuroop Sriram, @bkmi.bsky.social, Ricky T. Q. Chen, Brandon Wood 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96921 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23405 🧵11/ 12
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FlowLLM: Flow Matching for Material Generation with Large Language Models as Base Distributions
Material discovery is a critical area of research with the potential to revolutionize various fields, including carbon capture, renewable energy, and electronics. However, the immense scale of the che...
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
⛓️SPO: Sequential Monte Carlo Policy Optimisation by @mvmacfarlane.bsky.social , Edan Toledo, Donal Byrne, Paul Duckworth, Alexandre Laterre 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94776 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07963 🧵10/ 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
♻️Learning Symmetries via Weight-sharing with Doubly Stochastic Tensors by Putri van der Linden, @algarciacast.bsky.social, @sharvaree.bsky.social, Thijs P. Kuipers, @erikjbekkers.bsky.social 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96699 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04594 🧵9/ 12
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Learning Symmetries via Weight-Sharing with Doubly Stochastic Tensors
Group equivariance has emerged as a valuable inductive bias in deep learning, enhancing generalization, data efficiency, and robustness. Classically, group equivariant methods require the groups of in...
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🪪VISA: Variational Inference with Sequential Sample-Average Approximations by @zmheiko.bsky.social, @canaesseth.bsky.social, @jwvdm.bsky.social 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93819 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09429 🧵8 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🌐Space-Time Continuous PDE Forecasting using Equivariant Neural Fields by @davidmknigge.bsky.social*, @dafidofff.bsky.social*, Riccardo Valperga, Samuele Papa, Jan-jakob Sonke, Erik Bekkers, Efstratios Gavves 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93158 📜https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06660 🧵7 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🚪Fast yet Safe: Early-Exiting with Risk Control by @metodjazbec.bsky.social*, Alexander Timans*, Tin Hadži Veljković, Kaspar Sakmann, Dan Zhang, @canaesseth.bsky.social, Eric Nalisnick 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94477 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20915 🧵6 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🕵️When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges of Partial Observability in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback by @leon-lang.bsky.social, Davis Foote, Stuart Russell, Anca Dragan, Erik Jenner, Scott Emmons 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94754 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17747 🧵5 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🦠Equivariant Neural Diffusion for Molecule Generation by François Cornet, @gbarto.bsky.social, Mikkel Schmidt, @canaesseth.bsky.social 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96702 🧵4 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
⚙️Variational Flow Matching for Graph Generation by @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social *, @gbarto.bsky.social*, @canaesseth.bsky.social, @wellingmax.bsky.social, @jwvdm.bsky.social 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94958 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04843 🧵3 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🌊Neural Flow Diffusion Models: Learnable Forward Process for Improved Diffusion Modelling by @gbarto.bsky.social , Dmitry Vetrov, @canaesseth.bsky.social 🪪https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/94656 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12940 🧵2 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If you are attending #NeurIPS2024🇨🇦, make sure to check out AMLab's 11 accepted papers ...and to have a chat with our members there! 👩‍🔬🍻☕ Submissions include generative modelling, AI4Science, geometric deep learning, reinforcement learning and early exiting. See the thread for the full list! 🧵1 / 12
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Congratulations to @mvmacfarlane.bsky.social for the 3rd place in ARC Prize 2024! :) 📄 Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.08706 🏆 Details: arcprize.org/2024-results
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Searching Latent Program Spaces
Program synthesis methods aim to automatically generate programs restricted to a language that can explain a given specification of input-output pairs. While purely symbolic approaches suffer from a c...
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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I will be at NeurIPS this week. @amlab.bsky.social will be presenting 10 papers in total, and I myself am involved with 3 (see thread). I am also *hiring* for a postdoc position on data-efficient surrogate models for fluid dynamics. Come talk to me if you are on the market!
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Yesterday the Amsterdam Causality Meeting took place at LAB42, hosted by @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social and co-organized by @smaglia.bsky.social 💥 We attended inspiring talks by @rmassidda.it , currently visiting AMLab, and @phillip-lippe.bsky.social 🤩 👩‍💻 Slides: amscausality.github.io/upcoming/ 👩‍💻
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🚨 Happening today! 🚨 Don't miss the upcoming talks of @rmassidda.it and @phillip-lippe.bsky.social for the Amsterdam Causality Meeting, taking place this afternoon at UvA Science Park! 💥 See you there :)
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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
📢 The next Amsterdam Causality Meeting supported by the #ELLISunitAmsterdam will take place on Wednesday! 📅 December 4th ⏰ 14.30-17.30 📍 Lab 42 in L3.36 🔗 amscausality.github.io/upcoming/ Come and join us! 🚀✨
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Upcoming Meetings
Causality meeting 2023 with VU, UvA, Amsterdam UMC and CWI
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thanks to the organizers and participants for such an inspiring event and poster session! 🤩 The drinks and snacks were also well appreciated, as @maxxxzdn.bsky.social demonstrates 😉
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
During the poster session, AMLab members presented their NeurIPS papers. 🇨🇦 If you will also be in Vancouver, make sure to check them out! 🧐
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