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Awesome Machine Learning Summer Schools @awesome-mlss.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

AI is hard. Each day we're contending with hundreds of new models, "State of the Art" is now a bi-weekly update But what about the hardware revolution? Check out our latest newsletter: newsletter.awesome-mlss.com/p/the-hard-w... Join us as we explore "The Hard(ware) Part of AI" in our second issue

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The Hard(ware) Part of AI - Awesome MLSS Newsletter

2nd Edition

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/04/2025

Interesting thread/piece. One fun thing about this AGI-by-2027 stuff is, we get to find out of it's true, pretty soon!

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

💡 New ICLR paper! 💡 "On Linear Representations and Pretraining Data Frequency in Language Models": We provide an explanation for when & why linear representations form in large (or small) language models. Led by @jackmerullo.bsky.social, w/ @nlpnoah.bsky.social & @sarah-nlp.bsky.social

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Awesome Machine Learning Summer Schools @awesome-mlss.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

To all our followers, do remember to take time for yourself!

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Natasha Jaques @natashajaques.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Human-AI cooperation is important, but existing work trains on the same 5 Overcooked layouts, creating brittle strategies. Instead, we find that training on billions of procedurally generated tasks trains agents to learn general cooperative norms that transfer to humans... like avoiding collision

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Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Just shared a new article on "The State of Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning"! If you are new to reinforcement learning, this article has a generous intro section (PPO, GRPO, etc) Also, I cover 15 recent articles focused on RL & Reasoning. 🔗 magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-state-...

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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

👏 Meet our eleven new Digital Futures Institute Fellows! Congratulations @lboungr.bsky.social, Rowan Boyson, Mark Cote, Amrita Dhillon, Alex Gould, Elisabeth Kelan, @niccoloridi.bsky.social, Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, Astrid Van den Bossche, @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social & @lorenzoz.bsky.social 🔽

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Digital Futures Institute announces eleven new Fellows for 2025-26

Eleven interdisciplinary projects awarded Fellowships from the Digital Futures Institute for the 2025-26 cohort.

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Awesome Machine Learning Summer Schools @awesome-mlss.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

SUMMER SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT AI4Science Summer School deadline is in ONE DAY! Make sure you apply. For more information, go to awesome-mlss.com/summerschool... We also have a biweekly newsletter for you. To subscribe, head on to newsletter.awesome-mlss.com/subscribe

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awesome MLSS Newsletter

Stay ahead with bi-weekly updates on new machine learning summer schools, upcoming deadlines, and latest research news.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Speculating with a friend today about the @iclr-conf.bsky.social Test of Time award and we were trying to see if any papers could compete with Bahdanau et al (ie ATTENTION) but uh apparently we didn’t notice the just announced winner: Kingma & Ba (ADAM). Damn. ICLR 2015 was STACKED.

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Awesome Machine Learning Summer Schools @awesome-mlss.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

SUMMER SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT There are ML Summer Schools with deadlines less than ten days away! Follow deadlines here: awesome-mlss.com Most urgent: BAI Summer School on AI Agents and Agentic Systems 2025 - 1 day AutoML School 2025 - 4 days AI4Science Summer School 2025 - 6 days

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Machine Learning Summer School Guide

Find machine learning and artificial intelligence summer schools worldwide by topics, locations, dates, and deadlines. Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, and more.

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Large language models are less effective at clinical prediction tasks than locally trained machine learning models academic.oup.com/jamia/advanc... #llms #machinelearning #MLSky (not surprising but important to document)

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Large language models are less effective at clinical prediction tasks than locally trained machine learning models

AbstractObjectives. To determine the extent to which current large language models (LLMs) can serve as substitutes for traditional machine learning (ML) as

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The transformer was invented in Google. RLHF was not invented in industry labs, but came to prominence in OpenAI and DeepMind. I took 5 of the most influential papers (black dots) and visualized their references. Blue dots are papers that acknowledge federal funding (DARPA, NSF).

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just finished The AI Mirror by @shannonvallor.bsky.social. Very highly recommended. Transcending the stale accelerationist/doomer debate, Vallor reminds us what technology is for, and where (some of the) true dangers of AI lie. Powerful stuff, eloquently written global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Though to be fair, it didn’t do quatrains, so I asked for them

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Fun options: ask for an arcade game, a 3D game, a strategy game, etc. And don’t be satisfied with the first result, push back and ask for improvements.

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Andi @andimara.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Today, we share the tech report for SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models. 🔥 Explaining how to create a tiny 256M VLM that uses less than 1GB of RAM and outperforms our 80B models from 18 months ago! huggingface.co/papers/2504....

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Paper page - SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models

Join the discussion on this paper page

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abonte.bsky.social @abonte.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🤔 **Why join?** 1️⃣ Explore a rich, large-scale dataset for mobile sensing research. 2️⃣ Receive feedback for your work from an expert TPC. 3️⃣ Accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to @ieeepervasive. 4️⃣ Get the chance to win the Best Paper Award.

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Awesome Machine Learning Summer Schools @awesome-mlss.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Stanford HAI releases 2025 AI index Report with cross domain data on how AI is impacting our lives hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202... @stanfordhai.bsky.social

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The 2025 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The deadline for the EoI is tomorrow (April 11th)! We have: ✨6 confirmed speakers. ✨A session on interdisciplinary research. ✨A tutorial. ✨A panel discussion. ✨Poster and networking sessions.

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Great event on Tuesday at @stanfordhai.bsky.social convened by Dazza Greenwood and concluding talk by @tobinsouth.bsky.social around the legal landscape and challenges with #AIAgents. Recommend watching the recording and providing feedback here: www.dazzagreenwood.com/p/ai-agents-...

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AI Agents x Law Initiative

A New Stanford and Industry Initiative Launched Yesterday

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Johns Hopkins APL @jhuapl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Using artificial intelligence and innovative materials science techniques, APL is leading an effort to rapidly discover revolutionary materials that allow critical operations in specific, extreme environments. jhuapl.link/6xf

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Johns Hopkins APL Employing AI to Discover Materials for National Security Needs

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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The DFG is funding independent research groups in AI (tinyurl.com/36f5m6kd). If you're interested in coming to Göttingen (Germany) by applying for one of these groups, we have an online event to inform you what the process is and how we could support you (tinyurl.com/yfpeambm). Check it out!

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Förderinitiative „Künstliche Intelligenz“

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Srishti @srishtiy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

When we read the news, images can convey different things than text itself. Unlike other works which look at text, we study this as a “multimodal” framing problem & analyze where text and images communicate different “frames”. Checkout our paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.20960 @aicentre.dk

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Multi-Modal Framing Analysis of News

Automated frame analysis of political communication is a popular task in computational social science that is used to study how authors select aspects of a topic to frame its reception. So far, such s...

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Ai2 launched a new tool where your responses from OLMo get mapped back to related training data. We're using this actively to improve our post-training data and hope many others will use it for understanding and transparency around leading language models! Some musings:

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Looking at the training data

On building tools where truly open-source models can shrine (OLMo 2 32B Instruct, for today). OLMoTrace lets you poke around.

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Clément Dumas @butanium.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New paper w/@jkminder.bsky.social & @neelnanda.bsky.social What do chat LLMs learn in finetuning? Anthropic introduced a tool for this: crosscoders, an SAE variant. We find key limitations of crosscoders & fix them with BatchTopK crosscoders This finds interpretable and causal chat-only features!🧵

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The Wyss Institute at Harvard University @wyssinstitute.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Members of the Wyss' Molecular Robotics Initiative are exploring a new frontier in DNA: using it as a building material to solve a whole new set of problems at the nanoscale. Learn more about their work in DNA nanotechnology. #NationalRoboticsWeek #Nanotechnology

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Evolving how we use DNA through nanotechnological innovations

By Jessica Leff On April 25, 1953, a group of researchers published papers in Nature detailing the molecular structure of DNA, the building block of the genetic code of all organisms, for the first…

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Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This week, @stanfordhai.bsky.social released the 2025 AI Index. It’s well worth reading to understand the evolving ecosystem of AI. Some highlights that stood out to me: 1/

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Cornell Tech @cornelltech.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Researchers at #CornellTech have released a dataset extracted from more than 300,000 public #Reddit communities, and a report detailing how Reddit communities are changing their policies to address a surge in #AI-generated content. Learn more: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

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Dataset reveals how Reddit communities are adapting to AI | Cornell Chronicle

According to the research, the number of subreddits with AI rules more than doubled in 16 months, from July 2023 to November 2024.

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Will Smith @willsmithvision.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Web: neuralatex.com Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187 Source: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187 (click "TeX source")

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Neuralatex: A machine learning library written in pure LATEX

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We have also added #Maverick which is arguably better but (similarly to other models) struggles when the evidence is not easy to retrieve (ie requires more reasoning than simple retrieval -- hard set). More here: novelchallenge.github.io

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NoCha leaderboard

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Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

How do stories shape perceptions and policies about AI? Filmmakers and AI researchers came together at a workshop to create new narratives about AI. Here, they discussed how this workshop reshaped their understanding of AI and creativity: hai.stanford.edu/news/explori...

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Exploring the Ethics of AI through Narrative | Stanford HAI

A workshop at Stanford convened filmmakers and researchers to think about the implications of artificial intelligence.

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Cornell Tech @cornelltech.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Congrats to #CornellTech Ph.D. student Tobias Weinberg, whose work received a best paper honorable mention award at CHI 2025! His research, which helps people with speech disabilities express humor using assistive tech, was highlighted in a recent article: www.yai.org/news-stories...

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Bringing Humor and Innovation to Assistive Technology

As a teenager, Tobias Weinberg faced the unimaginable — losing his ability to speak and with it, the ease of expressing humor, a vital part of human connection. At just 15, a neurological condition to...

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

OpenAI: "Users have told us that understanding how the model reasons ... helps build trust in its answers." Anthropic: "Do reasoning models accurately verbalize their reasoning? Our new paper shows they don't." www.anthropic.com/research/rea...

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Reasoning models don't always say what they think

Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

RL backlog -- some extra RL / reasoning notes I’ve been sitting on (or forgot about): 1. OpenAI’s many forms of RL, 2. On distilling chain of thoughts vs. RL, 3. Did DeepSeek distill o1?, and 4. Why latent reasoning is so interesting.

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RL backlog: OpenAI's many RLs, clarifying distillation, and latent reasoning

Notes I forgot to publish. Closing some loose ends in the reasoning model discussions.

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Sikata Sengupta @sikatasengupta.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If you are at #NeurIPS, we will be presenting this work (#6610) from 4:30-7:30PM today and would love to chat! @marcelhussing.bsky.social @optimistsinc.bsky.social @aaroth.bsky.social

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Mor Geva @megamor2.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🎉 Our Actionable Interpretability workshop has been accepted to #ICML2025! 🎉 > Follow @actinterp.bsky.social > Website actionable-interpretability.github.io @talhaklay.bsky.social @anja.re @mariusmosbach.bsky.social @sarah-nlp.bsky.social @iftenney.bsky.social Paper submission deadline: May 9th!

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Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Excited to speak at the workshop on Technical AI Governance in Vancouver this summer! #ICML2025

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Georgia Tech Research @gtresearch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Georgia Tech researchers figured out how our brains process visual information, and it could expand our knowledge of sensory perception, leading to applications in neuro-medicine and artificial intelligence. b.gatech.edu/3E2FgEN

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Georgia Tech Research @gtresearch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A new machine learning technique from Georgia Tech computing researchers can better predict tsunamis, coastal flooding, and tide changes. 🌊 b.gatech.edu/4hBMDRz

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University of Toronto @utoronto.ca · 01/04/2025

Karina Vold says the rapid development of AI systems has left both philosophers & computer scientists grappling with difficult questions. #UofT 💻 uoft.me/bsp

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MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory @csail.mit.edu · 20/03/2025

Cable-driven mechanisms enable streamlined, precise motion, but are difficult to assemble by hand. MIT’s "Xstrings" 3D printing approach automates how these objects are put together, allowing users to customize designs for things like: - A lizard robot - A wall sculpture Full video: bit.ly/4il1aCj

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