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Erik Bekkers

@erikjbekkers.bsky.social
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AMLab, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam. ELLIS Scholar. Geometry-Grounded Representation Learning. Equivariant Deep Learning.

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Erik Bekkers @erikjbekkers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SSVM is where I academically grew up and in 2027 it comes to the Netherlands, 6-10 June❤️ Happy to be co-organizing😀 My favorite conference: cozy, small enough to actually talk to everyone! Geometric DL, PDEs, variational methods Papers due 20 Dec 2026 ssvm2027.github.io
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SSVM 2027
11th International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, held in 2027 in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. The conference serves as a primary forum for researchers at the int...
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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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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
These beautiful creatures are conscious in a way that AI systems, however smart, will never be ! Our arguments here : arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016 With the fab @erikjbekkers.bsky.social
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs in Saarland @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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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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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This week we welcome the workshop of the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group 2025/2026: Hybrid Agencies - Embodied Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Agents. bit.ly/4rpN72K @annaciaunica.bsky.social @erikjbekkers.bsky.social
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Are we really on the verge of conscious AI? Whether AI can "wake up" depends entirely on how you define reality itself. What if the belief in sentient machines is based on a deep mistake about what it actually means to be alive? Check out our latest led by fab @erikjbekkers.bsky.social
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New preprint on AI, consciousness and embodiment with the brilliant @erikjbekkers.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016 We introduce a new metaphysical view - Biological Idealism 😎
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Erik Bekkers @erikjbekkers.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I usually post on technical research. But clearly, more than ever, we must consider the societal impact of our work. I thus find it important to take a clear position on the moral status of machines and its impact on us humans. New paper w/ the exceptional @AnnaCiaunica👇🧵1/8
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Been busy writing on consciousness & AI with the brilliant: @erikjbekkers.bsky.social We introduce a moral dilemma called the «Unplugging Paradox » We argue that the issue is not worrying about whether AI can be conscious Rather: about transforming humans into zombies! Watch this space 😎
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs in Saarland @smaglia.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A fantastic opportunity to join us in #Amsterdam for some hardcore #uncertainty in #AI 🦾🚲🌷✖️✖️✖️ #causality #tractable #probabilistic #models #neurosymbolic #imprecise #probabilities #statistical #methods and more
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Martin Carrasco @martin.topology.rocks · 27/11/2025
Two month flew by since the start of the PhD journey with @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks and now the time is right to share how our collaborations officially started, with a question: How can we measure difference in (attributed) graphs beyond binary isomorphism testing ? 🌀
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Georg Bökman @bokmangeorg.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
There's an increasingly popular argument saying that for 3D point clouds with rotational ambiguity (e.g. molecular data) standard transformers are preferable over equivariant models for compute reasons. With “Platonic Transformers” we show why this doesn't have to be true. arxiv.org/abs/2510.03511
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Platonic Transformers: A Solid Choice For Equivariance
While widespread, Transformers lack inductive biases for geometric symmetries common in science and computer vision. Existing equivariant methods often sacrifice the efficiency and flexibility that ma...
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Julian Suk @sukjulian.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Enschede crowd you don't want to miss this! Join us for two exciting talks by Jolanda Wentzel and @erikjbekkers.bsky.social. As a bonus, you get to see me in "appropriate traditional dress from [my] country of origin". 📅 28 May 📍 UTwente campus
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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs in Saarland @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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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 10/03/2025
💬 Join TODAY’s webinar: “Symmetry, scale, and science: A geometric path to better AI" by @erikjbekkers.bsky.social & @jobrandstetter.bsky.social (ELLIS Program “Geometric Deep Learning”) 🗓️ Mon, March 10, 2025 🕓 16:00-17:00 CET 🔗 Register here: aiforgood.itu.int/event/symmet...
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Symmetry, scale, and science: A geometric path to better AI
The success of modern AI systems has been largely driven by massive scaling of data and compute resources. However, in scientific applications, where
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Olga Zaghen @olgatticus.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Super happy to share our work was accepted as an Oral at the Delta Workshop @ ICLR 2025! 🎉 Can’t wait to talk about it in Singapore 😎 Congrats to the amazing team @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social @alisometry.bsky.social @erikjbekkers.bsky.social 🔥
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Erik Bekkers @erikjbekkers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🚀 Excited to be part of this project led by Praneeta Konduri! We’re using state-of-the-art generative models to create synthetic vasculature geometries—pushing stroke treatment development forward while cutting down on patient data reliance. Exciting stuff! 😃 rdt.uva.nl/research/res...
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Synthetic data to enhance new treatment uptake for acute ischemic stroke - Responsible Digital Transformations
Multiple (pre-)clinical trials are required in the regulatory trajectory to introduce new medical devices in clinical practice. The process is widely acknowledged as sub-optimal, resource-heavy, and t...
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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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Georg Bökman @bokmangeorg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Common beliefs about equivariant networks for image input include 1) They are slow. 2) They don’t scale to ImageNet. 3) They are complicated. In my opinion, these three are all false. To argue against them, we made minimal modifications to popular vision models, turning them mirror-equivariant.
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Christian A. Naesseth @canaesseth.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Really excited about this! We note a connection between diffusion/flow models and neural/latent SDEs. We show how to use this for simulation-free learning of fully flexible SDEs. We refer to this as SDE Matching and show speed improvements of several orders of magnitude. arxiv.org/abs/2502.02472
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SDE Matching: Scalable and Simulation-Free Training of Latent Stochastic Differential Equations
The Latent Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) is a powerful tool for time series and sequence modeling. However, training Latent SDEs typically relies on adjoint sensitivity methods, which depend ...
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Cees Snoek @cgmsnoek.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
✨ The VIS Lab at the #University of #Amsterdam is proud and excited to announce it has #TWELVE papers 🚀 accepted for the leading #AI-#makers conference on representation learning ( #ICLR2025 ) in Singapore 🇸🇬. 1/n 👇👇👇 @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social
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Artem Moskalev @artemmoskalev.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Accepted to ICLR 🚨 Does using more geometry always help with molecule property prediction? In practice, we deal with imperfect geometries, which introduce structural noise. In our work arxiv.org/abs/2410.11933, we investigate when and how geometric information is useful (or not) for RNA molecules.
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Beyond Sequence: Impact of Geometric Context for RNA Property Prediction
Accurate prediction of RNA properties, such as stability and interactions, is crucial for advancing our understanding of biological processes and developing RNA-based therapeutics. RNA structures can ...
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Efstratios Gavves @egavves.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🔥 3/4 #ICLR2025 Grounding Continuous Representations in Geometry: Equivariant Neural Fields (ENF), for geometry-informed continuous signal representations openreview.net/forum?id=A4e... +@dafidofff.bsky.social, @davidmknigge.bsky.social @erikjbekkers.bsky.social S. Papa, R. Valperga, S. Vadgama
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Grounding Continuous Representations in Geometry: Equivariant...
Conditional Neural Fields (CNFs) are increasingly being leveraged as continuous signal representations, by associating each data-sample with a latent variable that conditions a shared backbone...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 29/01/2025
🚀 AI for Good Webinar Launch: From Molecules to Models Next week, ELLIS kicks off a new webinar series on AI in life sciences, showcasing key research from ELLIS Programs. 🗓️ Date: Feb 3, 2025 🕓 Time: 16:00-17:30 CET Register: aiforgood.itu.int/event/unlear...
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Unlearning Toxicity in Multimodal Foundation Models & Learning to design protein-protein interactions with enhanced generalization
Part 1 (Rita Cucchiara): Foundation Models, pretrained on extremely large unknown source of data, contain in their embed space many information
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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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Floor Eijkelboom @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🐑 Come and check out Variational Flow Matching for Graph Generation next week at @neuripsconf.bsky.social ! 🐑 Wed 11 Dec 11 a.m. PST — 2 p.m. PST West Ballroom A-D #7103 arxiv.org/abs/2406.04843
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Meet our Lab's members: staff, postdocs and PhD students! :) With this starter pack you can easily connect with us and keep up to date with all the member's research and news 🦋 go.bsky.app/8EGigUy
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Olga Zaghen @olgatticus.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A starter pack for researchers interested in Geometric Deep Learning - in the broadest sense possible! Let me know if you would like to be listed. :) Thanks @sharvaree.bsky.social for the idea! go.bsky.app/7h8sek
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AMLab @amlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Soon, @erikjbekkers.bsky.social and @davidmknigge.bsky.social will give a talk elaborating even further on geometry-grounded representation learning in a NeurReps seminar. Make sure to mark the date! :) ⏰ November 21st, 4 PM CET 🔗 www.neurreps.org/speaker-seri...
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