Reposted by Emile van KriekenAdrián Javaloy @javaloyml.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It 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 1163
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 01/09/2026We'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...workingat.vu.nlVacancy — Postdoc Neurosymbolic Reasoning in Multimodal World ModelsAre 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... 122
Reposted by Emile van KriekenAndreas Grivas @andreasgrv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Missed 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 1124
Reposted by Emile van KriekenDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I especially love this diagram. 5248542011
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 26/06/2026This is how i learned there is going to be a neuromancer series omg 1290
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 26/06/2026"But it is also ridiculously slow to review..." Yeah, that's the issue. While the amount of manuscripts to review seems to increase exponentially.. 020
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 26/06/2026I agree, LLM's writing is so bad too. I didn't expect it but a good writing style is one of the most valuable skills right now! 020
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 24/06/2026Yes I had a discussion on this today. Now that papers and results are so easy to fake, the quality of a paper can be hard to confidently assess beyond matters of style and expected impact. 210
Reposted by Emile van KriekenAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When 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. 236168297554
Reposted by Emile van KriekenELLIS @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 0144
Reposted by Emile van KriekenKilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Fund 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. 03111
Reposted by Emile van KriekenRobert 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!)jobs.tugraz.atTU Graz 064
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 26/05/2026In this part? I'm not sure I follow the argument. Yes, we understand logistic regression much deeper (convex loss, easy interventions & statistics). Stacking layers is what creates nonidentifability, nonconvexity, and all the other nastiness of ANNs. So I'd say the case is very different from ANNs? 020
Reposted by Emile van KriekenGergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 22/05/2026value-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/ 1396
Reposted by Emile van KriekenViacheslav Borovitskiy @vabor112.bsky.social · 25/05/2026My 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/2605.22593arxiv.orgDo 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... 1112
Reposted by Emile van KriekenNeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Do 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 0156
Reposted by Emile van KriekenErik Bekkers @erikjbekkers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026We'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...werkenbij.uva.nlVacancy — 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... 03316
Reposted by Emile van KriekenEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Claude Code has certainly made me write code faster. But it turns out, the bottleneck is still experiment run time and experiment analysis 1216212
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 08/04/2026Same experience here! This is being missed a lot in recent discussions I think 000
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 02/04/2026My advisor always does this with me, even in seminars :') I feel quite conscious about my facial expressions ahah 020
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 01/04/2026I agree in practice LLMs can probably be understood as limiting towards Turing complete :-) Maybe I was being a bit pedantic! 010
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 01/04/2026Based. Can you ask your AI to allow me to collapse threads in thread view :-)? Major usability issue for me! 010
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 01/04/2026How did this get so many likes? It's extraordinarily outdated at this point. Do you work in software? 1170
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 01/04/2026In particular for the "Transformers are Turing Complete", it's about assuming hard-max, rather than softmax attention. It seems that the blog you send (nice work btw!) has the same assumption if I understand correctly 100
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 01/04/2026I must admit I haven't followed this literature for a while, but from ~1,5 years ago the question was mostly about the assumptions you allow for within transformers, and that current LLMs do not satisfy those (eg lifeiscomputation.com/transformers...)lifeiscomputation.comAre Transformers Turing-complete? A Good Disguise Is All You Need.Transformer architectures cannot simulate computer programs. They are not Turing-complete, despite what several papers have claimed. 100
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 01/04/2026Alright! I can get that argument, although I think it feels a little bit like a stretch :) That said, these days I really like treating LLMs (abstractly) as symbolic reasoning machines, this kind of thinking unlocks pretty interesting ideas. 010
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 31/03/2026Why do you believe they are? (Also the Turing completeness is pretty hotly debated! Depends a lot on the assumptions) 110
Reposted by Emile van KriekenMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I’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. 37317
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 19/03/2026I'm confused by this. Deep learning is not a single technology, that when scaled will always result in yassified faces / AI slop. Previous DLSS versions were likely trained on just upscaling, while this new model must also include data with actual difference in styles. That's different! 010
Reposted by Emile van KriekenPhillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Sharing “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/ 610823
Reposted by Emile van KriekenSara 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...academictransfer.com2 PhD Positions on Learning Causally Grounded Concepts for Safe AIAre 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... 02014
Reposted by Emile van Kriekennorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026You are here 412816
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 13/03/2026Claude just told me to remove an offhand footnote about Anthropic's dealings with the DoW 😱🤨 110
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 13/03/2026Spot-on. My work got cognitively more challenging, not less, with LLMs, as much more challenging things are achievable now. 080
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 12/03/2026Yeah, how did you come up with it? It's not a counterexample used for a proposition, right? 110
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 12/03/2026This is a really interesting result :) I love the experiments with SpamLang! 110
Reposted by Emile van KriekenNathan 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 👇 610815
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 12/03/2026Also got minor aphantasia and got 0.0036... But I never thought I was particularly good at this. So I'm a bit sceptical of the test haha 120
Emile van Krieken @emilevankrieken.com · 10/03/2026Probably the best improv bit I know. I've seen it so often and laughing on the floor each time 000
Reposted by Emile van KriekenClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 10/03/2026Well, 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)."arxiv.orgLearning Functions of HalfspacesWe 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, ... 1306
Reposted by Emile van KriekenColin @colin-fraser.net · 07/03/2026LLMs 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. 41165
Reposted by Emile van KriekenPhillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The 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. 4415
Reposted by Emile van KriekenMartin Carrasco @martin.topology.rocks · 04/03/2026To 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.socialarxiv.orgGraph Homomorphism Distortion: A Metric to Distinguish Them All and in the Latent Space Bind ThemA 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... 1124
Reposted by Emile van KriekenIan 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. 🚀 1185