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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 4h

I think it's overly optimistic with the timing. I'm waiting for the last step anytime now 😬

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 10h

Guys, I don't think we have the same definition of "outstanding"...

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 16h

The Swedes are in da place! In today's seminar, we're learning 3D with @davnords.bsky.social

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 16h

I nearly missed the time when the trees in front of the lab turned red! But here there are, with a different viewpoint than usual 🍂🍁

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Also, pretty image! The website for the project is gorgeous, check it out: arijit-hub.github.io/projects/din... Code and models are available: github.com/arijit-hub/d...

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

If you sample from a fixed DINO feature, you can do DINO inversion. Not sure how useful this is, but it's neat nonetheless because it show that the self-condition can be used to steer the generation process

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Doing so is much faster than the other uses of a pretrained feature extractor, and leads to a massive improvement compared to the baseline (i.e., without DINO) both in latent and pixel flow-matching.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

During Sampling, you start with the usual Gaussian noise for the image and zeros for the self-condition, and then you rollout the predicted DINO to the next sampling step The predicted features are fairly stable and act like an anchor guiding the image ODE

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

The training is also very simple and is similar to the self-conditioning in RIN (Jabri ICML'23). You do a 1st forward with 0, get your predicted DINO features (detached) and pass them as additional condition to the 2nd forward+backward pass Since there is only 1 ODE, there is only 1 noise schedule

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Today has a great "Magritte sky", with the deep blue and the white fluffy clouds.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm not saying LLMs are made in hell, but the similarity...

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

What a weird acknowledgment. I've seen companies doing that in the past, but that's a first for a theoretical CS paper by academics. I don't think there is any opinion in that paper. Is it because of Anthropic? (paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.07977 lowers the complexity of 3SUM and related problems)

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Big pb with the US servers or what? I keep having that and my networks works perfectly fine.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Il faut regarder par catégorie. Le gros de l'exp vient de CS.LG, CS.CV et CS.CL c'est à dire l'IA moderne.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

outlook (the webapp) is just unusable. It has more bugs than a first year student's assignment. How is this company valued trillions of $? I just cannot understand that. It's pure crap. the worst email app I've ever used, and I used to host my own webmail...

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

One more year, one more card from my mom (Her comment was "it's not a Trabant, but you get the idea". Do I really look like a Trabi? 🙄)

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

The convolution is back in the office! (Yes, this is a straight sheet of paper)

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Who else has this visualization engraved in their brain?

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

🏫🎒 First class of the year! Excited to present new material, I hope it'll be mutual.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Drag'n drop figures for illustrating 1-NN. This would take so long without an LLM, I would not do it. I'm like a kid in a candy store with these interactive figures. I like interactive demos soooo much.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Guys, do you have the slightest idea who you are sending this to? I know I have a common name, but I'm pretty sure an LLM would not have included me in the list of recipients after only 1 google search.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Excuse-me Claude, but... Where did you get that from?

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Si seulement ça pouvait percoler dans un peu plus de têtes... (au passage: je me demande si les 100 jours, c'est un truc qui se fait dans d'autres pays)

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Every year this cartoon becomes more relevant. (the author does not seem to have a bluesky account).

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

This sentence is terrifying for any institutional organisation relying on this company. It should break immediately many many contracts with somewhat important information.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember folks, if it leaves your computer, it's no longer "your data"

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Don't get me started on the Poincaré was wrong thread, I don't have time for that! In my notes, I am mostly contrasting those 2 quotes.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

For reference, this is the real setup from another angle

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

Let's try this. The table is actually split in 2 separated by close to a meter and the camera is positioned to make it appear seamless.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm sorry but, waaaat? Only 1 week of R-AC discussion but 6 weeks to release the decisions? How? That doesn't make any sense.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

So apparently our roof has become a tinder hotspot for black redstart (rougequeue noir en français). They're very noisy during court, it seems. Surprisingly curious too.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

La célèbre station balnéaire de Charme et Chênes 😎 🤭

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026

opendata.paris.fr/explore/data...

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026

Spam complètement invraisemblable reçu ce matin 💀 Comment peut-on en 2026 1) écrire ce genre de foutaises de boomers au moment où le pays prend en pleine poire la réalité du climat qu'il a construit, 2) avoir le culot de l'envoyer à un chercheur d'une école du ministère de la transition écologique ?

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

Sur la question du pourquoi les gens et les gouvernements successifs ne prennent pas les décisions qui s'imposent, je rappelle que cet article à presque 20 ans : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... La réponse est alors claire : un égoïsme important doublé d'un niveau catastrophique en calcul de proba.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 25/07/2026

Everything is burning in Europe. May people remember that next time they have to vote. (Link to the map, in French: www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...)

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Trying to appeal to my gigantic ego, I see... But no, sorry, it doesn't work.

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