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Emile van Krieken

@emilevankrieken.com
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Assistant professor @ VU Amsterdam, prev University of Edinburgh. Neurosymbolic Machine Learning, Generative Models, commonsense reasoning www.emilevankrieken.com

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Adrián Javaloy @javaloyml.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It has been a while since I have been active here, and lots of things have changed: different city, different role. I have been swamped, but I finally managed to update my website. More news sooner than later! (I accept suggestions for lab names) adrianjav.github.io
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Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 01/09/2026
We're hiring a postdoc on Neurosymbolic World Models in the Learning and Reasoning group! The position is together with Filip Ilievski and @cgmsnoek.bsky.social, and offers the possibility for PhD co-supervision. Feel free to reach out to us for any questions! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...
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Vacancy — Postdoc Neurosymbolic Reasoning in Multimodal World Models
Are you passionate about cutting-edge research on multimodal reasoning, operating in an international research environment, and co-supervising PhD students? Then keep reading: this 2-year fully-funded...
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Andreas Grivas @andreasgrv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Missed our poster on byte-level LLMs at ICLR on Tuesday? Come chat to us at the CoLoRAI workshop tomorrow afternoon at 15:15! grigoris.ece.wisc.edu/workshops/co... @emilevankrieken.com @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social
Andreas Grivas, Emile van Krieken and Antonio Vergari presenting the poster "Fast and Expressive Multi-Byte Prediction with Probabilistic Circuits"
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
shamelessly stolen
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∅🌸 @snowanddrugs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 08/06/2026
🎓 Applications are now open for the ELLIS Summer School on Machine Learning & Computer Vision in Munich! Get insights into: → Computer Vision → Machine Learning → Natural Language Processing 📍 TU Munich 🇩🇪 📅 15–18 September ⏰ Apply by 30 June 🔗 bit.ly/4vvEzJk
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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Fund basic research and art. Let the dreamers and tinkerers of your society do their thing. You pay for the possibility of minor and major miracles.
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Robert Peharz @ropeharz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨 Last call for applicants interested in #Neurosymbolic AI / #NeSy! We’re still looking for a PhD student or postdoc to join the 🇦🇹 FWF Cluster of Excellence Bilateral AI: www.bilateral-ai.net jobs.tugraz.at/de/jobs/4663... jobs.tugraz.at/de/jobs/71ba... 📅 Deadline: May 31 (just a few days left!)
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Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
value-driven transport! a new framework for generative modeling, combining elements of * optimal control / RL * optimal transport * stochastic primal-dual optimization thread about our new work with @pmorenoz.bsky.social (@upf.edu) & Adrian Müller (@ethz.ch) 1/
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Viacheslav Borovitskiy @vabor112.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My first paper with my first PhD student @pedrocvieira.bsky.social just landed on arXiv! 🎉 “Do Deep Ensembles Actually Capture Uncertainty in Graph Neural Networks?” Spoiler alert: the answer is largely no—at least, not much more than a single model does. 🧵👇 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2605.22593
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Do Deep Ensembles Actually Capture Uncertainty in Graph Neural Networks?
While deep ensembles are widely considered to be the default method for uncertainty quantification in deep learning, their effectiveness for graph-structured data is often simply assumed based on succ...
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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Do you want to connect with the European AI research community? NeurIPS Europe is coming to Paris (Dec 9th-13th) and we are looking for sponsors to help to make it happen. Tiers from Bronze (10k€) to Platinum (60k€). neurips.cc/sponsors/pro... @ellis.eu
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Erik Bekkers @erikjbekkers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We're looking for a new colleague at @amlab.bsky.social: Assistant Professor in AI for Science 🔬🤖 World-class ML research, Amsterdam's thriving AI ecosystem (ELLIS, startups, big tech), and some of the best academic labor conditions in Europe ❤️ Deadline: May 30 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in AI for Science (AI4Science)
<p><span>Are you passionate about advancing Machine Learning by integrating insights from the natural sciences? Are you eager to bridge the 3rd (<em><span>computational</span></em>) and 4th (<em><span...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Claude Code has certainly made me write code faster. But it turns out, the bottleneck is still experiment run time and experiment analysis
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’m seeing close to zero reaction/conversation about this on here. This is huge news for open research on language models, especially in the US.
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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Sharing “Neural Thickets”. We find: In large models, the neighborhood around pretrained weights can become dense with task-improving solutions. In this regime, post-training can be easy; even random guessing works Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.12228 Web: thickets.mit.edu 1/
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs at UvA @smaglia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🚨2 PhD positions with me @amlab.bsky.social on learning causally grounded concepts 🚨 Are you interested in improving the #interpretability #robustness and #safety of AI by integrating #causal reasoning? Join us in beautiful Amsterdam 🇳🇱🌷🚲 Deadline: 20 April www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3593...
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2 PhD Positions on Learning Causally Grounded Concepts for Safe AI
Are you interested in improving the interpretability, robustness and safety of AI by integrating causal reasoning? The Causality team in the AMLab group at the University of Amsterdam is looking for 2...
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
You are here
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Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 13/03/2026
Claude just told me to remove an offhand footnote about Anthropic's dealings with the DoW 😱🤨
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Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 13/03/2026
Spot-on. My work got cognitively more challenging, not less, with LLMs, as much more challenging things are achievable now.
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Nathan Godey @nthngdy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🧵New paper: "Lost in Backpropagation: The LM Head is a Gradient Bottleneck" The output layer of LLMs destroys 95-99% of your training signal during backpropagation, and this significantly slows down pretraining 👇
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 10/03/2026
Well, this seems like a big deal. arxiv.org/abs/2603.087... "This is the first algorithm that can PAC learn even intersections of two halfspaces in time 2^o(n)."
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Learning Functions of Halfspaces
We give an algorithm that learns arbitrary Boolean functions of $k$ arbitrary halfspaces over $\mathbb{R}^n$, in the challenging distribution-free Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning model, ...
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 07/03/2026
LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions.
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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The AI discourse sometimes seems to center on "Is AI good or is it bad?" I find this framing unproductive. AI is not a fixed thing. I would prefer to ask "How might we use this technology for good, and mitigate the bad?" What a shame if the best use we can come up with is no use at all.
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Martin Carrasco @martin.topology.rocks · 04/03/2026
To kick off the PhD journey with @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks: What are the limitations of the WL metric, and what is an 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤? We answer these questions with our 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 arxiv.org/abs/2511.03068 @olgatticus.bsky.social, Kavir and @erikjbekkers.bsky.social
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Graph Homomorphism Distortion: A Metric to Distinguish Them All and in the Latent Space Bind Them
A large driver of the complexity of graph learning is the interplay between structure and features. When analyzing the expressivity of graph neural networks, however, existing approaches ignore featur...
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Ian Li @ianli18.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"He is from [MASK] [MASK]" → "San York"? dLLMs fail because they ignore token dependencies. This Factorization Barrier arises from a structural misspecification: models are restricted to fully factorized outputs. We break this barrier with CoDD, enabling coherent parallel generation. 🚀
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Cameron @cameron.stream · 28/02/2026
Sam is a snake
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
time traveler from 12 months from now just sent me this
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 26/02/2026
In light of the current funding situation (worldwide), a modest proposal: instead of pouring billions of dollars into GenAI claiming "it *could* accelerate science and research," consider putting 1% of that amount in what *will* accelerate science and research. Namely, funding science and research.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
why do science? it won,t make the model Bigger
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
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Sam Duffield @samduffield.com · 30/01/2026
New open source: cuthbert 🐛 State space models with all the hotness: (temporally) parallelisable, JAX, Kalman, SMC
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs at UvA @smaglia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Best conference with the best people and in the best place 😎 😜 Also the submission deadline is conveniently one month later than #ICML2026, just in case you needed it 😅
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NeSy 2026 Conference @nesyconf.org · 20/01/2026
🦕The 20th conference on Neurosymbolic AI will be in Lisbon, Portugal, September 1-4, 2026! The CFP is out: 2026.nesyconf.org/call-for-pap... with two phases: 🚨 Deadline 1: Feb 24 (abstract), Mar 3 (full) 🚨 Deadline 2: Jun 9 (abstract), Jun 16 (full) #neurosymbolic #NeSy2026
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Call for Papers
NeSy AI is the association for neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence. It runs NeSy, the premier international conference on neural-symbolic learning and reasoning, yearly since 2005, with a focus on n...
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Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We introduce epiplexity, a new measure of information that provides a foundation for how to select, generate, or transform data for learning systems. We have been working on this for almost 2 years, and I cannot contain my excitement! arxiv.org/abs/2601.03220 1/7
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Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 13/01/2026
Good call! I maintain a list of Neurosymbolic folks on Bsky, see here 🦕 go.bsky.app/RMJ8q3i
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs at UvA @smaglia.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
#XAI, #neurosymbolic methods #nesy and #causal #representation #learning #CRL all care about learning #interpretable #concepts, but in different ways. We are organizing this #ICLR2026 workshop to bring these three communities together and learn from each other 🦾🔥💥 Submission deadline: 30 Jan 2026
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Samy Badreddine @sbadredd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Emile will present our work on Knowledge Graph Embeddings at Eurips' Salon des Refusés on Friday! We show how linearity prevent KGEs from scaling to larger graphs + propose a simple solution using a Mixture of Softmaxes (see LLM literature) to break the limitations at a low parameter cost. 🔨
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NeSy 2026 Conference @nesyconf.org · 29/11/2025
Recordings of the NeSy 2025 keynotes are now available! 🎥 Check out insightful talks from @guyvdb.bsky.social, @tkipf.bsky.social and D McGuinness on our new Youtube channel www.youtube.com/@NeSyconfere... Topics include using symbolic reasoning for LLM, and object-centric representations!
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NeSy conference
The NeSy conference studies the integration of deep learning and symbolic AI, combining neural network-based statistical machine learning with knowledge representation and reasoning from symbolic appr...
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Antonia Wüst @toniwuest.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
🚨 New paper alert! We introduce Vision-Language Programs (VLP), a neuro-symbolic framework that combines the perceptual power of VLMs with program synthesis for robust visual reasoning.
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Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 28/11/2025
Almost off to @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 🇪🇺! I'll present 3 posters: 🧠 Neurosymbolic Diffusion Models: Thursday's poster session. Going to NeurIPS? @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social and @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social will present the paper in San Diego Thu 13:00 arxiv.org/abs/2505.13138
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Sophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · 27/10/2025
The simplex algorithm is super efficient. 80 years of experience says it runs in linear time. Nobody can explain _why_ it is so fast. We invented a new algorithm analysis framework to find out.
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Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book
Narrowing the gap between theory and practice is a longstanding goal of the algorithm analysis community. To further progress our understanding of how algorithms work in practice, we propose a new alg...
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Eleonora Giunchiglia @e-giunchiglia.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Want to use your favourite #NeSy model but afraid of the reasoning shortcuts?🫣 Fear not💪🏻In our #NeurIPS2025 paper we show that you just need to equip your favourite NeSy model with prototypical networks and the reasoning shortcuts will be a problem of the past!
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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)! Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!) arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data! LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data We extend this effort to 45 new languages!
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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.eurosky.social · 18/09/2025
Unfortunately, our submission to #NeurIPS didn’t go through with (5,4,4,3). But because I think it’s an excellent paper, I decided to share it anyway. We show how to efficiently apply Bayesian learning in VLMs, improve calibration, and do active learning. Cool stuff! 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2412.06014
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Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models
Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and SigLIP, have found remarkable success in classification, retrieval, and generative tasks. For this, VLMs deterministically map images and text descripti...
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Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 19/09/2025
Accepted to NeurIPS! 😁 We will present Neurosymbolic Diffusion Models in San Diego 🇺🇸 and Copenhagen 🇩🇰 thanks to @euripsconf.bsky.social 🇪🇺
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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A really neat paper thinking through what "Identifiability" means, how we can determine it, and implications for modeling. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.18853 #statssky #mlsky
A schematic showing some techniques for assessing identifiability and how computation-
ally expensive they are for computational models of different types, ranked in a typical order of
computational complexitA diagram of implication conditions between identifiability concepts discussed. Note
how structural unidentifiability makes practical identifiability impossible, both locally and globally.
Conversely, practical global identifiability, that may be (loosely) tested as described in the ‘Brute
force checks . . . ’ section, would guarantee the other identifiability conditions
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