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Flora Salim

@florasalim.bsky.social
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Professor, CSE, UNSW Sydney. #AI #ML #UbiComp #LLM #MFM #timeseries #ST #multimodal #sensors #continuallearning #trustworthyAI ❤️ #coffee Why am I here? Scouting for a new platform to discover and learn new papers (let’s see if it’s the one)

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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Finally, we compared Bisecle to frontier models like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.5. Note that we can only use APIs to test them. We show that these frontier LLMs still struggle with temporal reasoning and dealing with non-stationary, evolving video tasks. In some tasks, Bisecle show superior performance
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Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
Frontier vision-language models (VLMs) have made remarkable improvements in video understanding tasks. However, real-world videos typically exist as continuously evolving data streams (e.g., dynamic s...
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
- Bisecle exhibits remarkable resistance to forgetting - Bisecle is compatible with LLMs from 1B to 13B, introducing only a small number of additional parameters and computational cost. - Bisecle can achieve superior performance even in low-resource settings.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The results show that: - Bisecle establishes a new SOTA results surpassing others in both accuracy (+15.79%) and forgetting reduction (8.49% lower Forgetting rate). - Our method Bisecle consistently outperforms others, indicating strong robustness even when training data is limited.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The two components of Bisecle with complementary angles: - multi-directional supervision mechanism improves knowledge preservation. - contrastive prompt learning scheme is designed to isolate task-specific knowledge to facilitate efficient memory storage, and to explicitly mitigate update conflict.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Excited to share that Bisecle is accepted at #NeurIPS2025. 🧠 Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469 Code: github.com/cruiseresear... Inspired by the rapid binding and pattern separation mechanisms in the hippocampus
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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 06/08/2025
Congrats to team members Prof Flora Salim, Breeze Chen & Wilson Wongso from ADM+S and other team members Xiaoqian Hu & Yue Tan from UNSW who placed 3rd in the highly competitive KDD Cup 2025 Meta CRAG-MM Challenge @florasalim.bsky.social #KDD2025 #WearableAI #VLLMs admscentre.org/4mu7lFx
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Award-winning tech enhances information retrieval in wearable AI devices - ADM+S Centre
A team of researchers from ADM+S at UNSW has been awarded third place for single-source augmentation in the highly competitive KDD Cup 2025 Meta CRAG-MM Challenge, ranking alongside top institutions s...
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Multimodal CL #postdocjob #jobs 🦘🎓
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
* Potential for LLM steering:  The research explored the potential to manipulate ToM-related information within the LLMs to generate more aligned and contextually appropriate responses. The first author - 1st year student Mehdi Jafari is attending his first academic conference #ACL2025.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
* ToM-informed Alignment Improves Response Quality: Empirical evaluations of LLaMA-3 models (3B and 8B) demonstrated that incorporating ToM principles into the conversational agents improved response quality significantly, achieving win rates of 63% and 67% respectively.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Key Findings: * LLMs Can Represent and Retain ToM-related Constructs: The study investigated whether LLMs could represent and retain ToM-related constructs and found evidence supporting this ability. * ToM-informed Alignment Improves Response Quality:
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
In Beyond Words, we explore: a) The extent to which the activation space of LLMs represents ToM of interlocutors, b) Whether these representations form a consistent model of ToM, and c) How can we leverage ToM-related features to generate more aligned responses?
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Current LLMs often generate contextually appropriate responses, but they don’t truly understand the user's goals, beliefs, or misunderstandings.  Using ToM, we can analyse interlocutor behaviours based on the understanding of their mental and emotional states.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Beyond Words: Integrating Theory of Mind into Conversational Agents for Human-Like Belief, Desire, and Intention Alignment (#ACL2025 Findings) aclanthology.org/2025.finding... Codes: github.com/cruiseresear... Findings in the thread below.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I’m recruiting a 1.5 year postdoc in multimodal continual learning external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53... Check our recent work on this topic. Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469 Know anyone suitable? Pls repost
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Postdoctoral Research Associate / Senior Research Associate in Multimodal Learning
Conduct research field of deep learning focusing on novel continual multimodal learning methods.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Overleaf is down. Ah well... theoretically, only 30,000+ people hammering it 2 days before NeurIPS deadline.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
NVIDIA Dynamo. Exciting announcement by Jensen Huang #gtc2025. A new open source VMWare-like inference framework for reasoning. It breaks up prefill and decode steps efficiently. DeepSeek R1 requests can be boosted by 30x. Already used by Perplexity, Meta, etc developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I’m in San Jose this week for NVIDIA GTC. I’m a panelist for “The Role of AI and Accelerated Computing in Understanding and Mitigating Urban Climate Change” session. We'll discuss how AI transforms climate modeling, weather forecasting, and high-resolution urban simulations. Anyone else attending?
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
We know many cases of automated hiring gone wrong in the past. Automated firing? Doesn’t look good. No guarantee on transparency. The agency will be left to an unnamed LLM: “info would be fed into an unspecified LLM that would assess whether an employee was necessary” www.wired.com/story/doge-a...
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DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers
Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 15/02/2025
Public Environmental Data Partners archives climate datasets, uploading copies to public repositories and cataloging where and how to find them if they go missing from government websites. Scholars explain:
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How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
😔😢
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The Brick-by-Brick 2024 challenge focuses only on the multi-label classification problem, which we consider to be harder, and the holy grail for automation and management of net-zero and sustainable buildings. Round 2 of Brick by Brick 2024 has commenced! To join: www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
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AIcrowd | Brick by Brick 2024 | Challenges
Automating Building Data Classification
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The task also tackles issues like imbalanced data and sparse labels, all while addressing real-world problems like building optimization and sustainability. Our NeurIPS 2024 paper includes both a multi-label classification benchmark and a zero-shot forecasting benchmark. neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
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NeurIPS Poster Building Timeseries Dataset: Empowering Large-Scale Building AnalyticsNeurIPS 2024
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
BTS is more challenging than existing TS datasets and a lot more interesting because BTS captures the complexities of real-world operations: 1) Temporal Irregularity; 2) Spatial Heterogeneity; 3) Long-tail Distribution. -- requires models to manage hierarchical dependencies and ensure consistency.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
** Knowledge Graph (KG) BTS also includes a KG that captures the relationships between TS and their physical, logical, and virtual entities. Making it a great case for Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification. The TS are to be classified across nested categories (e.g. Point>Sensor>Air Quality>CO2).
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The Building TimeSeries (BTS) dataset offers a rich, hierarchical structure of a large collection of diverse timeseries. The dataset include the following components: * Multivariate TimeSeries: From 2021 to 2024, contains over 15,000 timeseries (TS) across 300 unique classes. * Knowledge Graph 🧵
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A new stark reality to hit us and the entire planet ecosystem. And it’s only going to get worse unless we do something about it www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?
The threshold has been exceeded for only one year so far, but humanity is nearing the end of what many thought was a ‘safe zone’ as climate change worsens.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Brick-by-Brick is a #WebConf2025 competition. www2025.thewebconf.org/accepted-com... Round 1 is well underway with hundreds of submissions. Check it: www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b... Not too late to join. We’re looking for winners across Round 1 and 2. Win cash prizes and travel grants to WebConf.
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International World Wide Web Conference 2025 ( WWW2025 | The Web Conf 2025 )
28 April - 2 May 2025
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#IJCAI2025 Call for Tutorials 📆Submission deadline: 28 March 2025 ➡️ 2025.ijcai.org/call-for-tut... 📣Chair: Flora Salim and Quanming Yao #AI #Research #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #tutorial #cfp
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Call for Tutorials – IJCAI 2025
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Another one down BTS: Buildings Time Series + CRUISE in NeurIPS team photo #neurips2024 @neuripsconf.bsky.social
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
nipsies? Doesn’t sound right…
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
One down #neurips2024
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thank you!!
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
👋🙋🏻‍♀️
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚀 A new ML Challenge: Brick by Brick 2024: Automate Building Data Classification 🔗 www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b... * up to $20,000 AUD in prizes. Check out #NeurIPS2024 Building Timeseries Dataset. 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 📍 Fri 13 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5106 @neuripsconf.bsky.social
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AIcrowd | Brick by Brick 2024 | Challenges
Automating Building Data Classification
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Another reminder. At least 7 Associate professor position (Level D, post tenure) at CSE, UNSW Sydney. I'm at NeurIPS if people are interested to find out more about us and the role. @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 #jobs #facultyjobs
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I can have another one on your behalf. What’s your pick?
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
My pick was Transformer! What about you? @neuripsconf.bsky.social
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Come and find us. I have upcoming openings in my group (postdocs and PhDs). Keen to reconnect, discuss potential new collaborations, and meet new friends. Our school UNSW Computer Science and Engineering is advertising for 7 Associate Professor positions. Feel free to reach out.
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Resolution-Agnostic Transformer-based Climate Downscaling 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 📍Tackling Climate Change workshop 🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14774 We introduced a cost-efficient downscaling method using a pretrained Earth-ViT model, w/ ability to generalize across different resolutions #NeurIPS2024
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NeurIPS Resolution-Agnostic Transformer-based Climate DownscalingNeurIPS 2024
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Building TimeSeries (BTS) dataset covers 3 buildings over 3yrs, >10K timeseries data points with hundreds of unique ontologies. The metadata is standardized using the Brick schema (> 240 classes). We performed benchmarks on 2 tasks: timeseries classification and zero-shot forecasting. #NeurIPS2024
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
2. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... ⚒️ github.com/cruiseresear... 🔗 openreview.net/pdf?id=6cCFK... 📍 Fri 13 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5106 💰 www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b.... Also launching the Brick-by-Brick AI competition today! Stay tuned for more info. #NeurIPS2024
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NeurIPS Poster Building Timeseries Dataset: Empowering Large-Scale Building AnalyticsNeurIPS 2024
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
ViLCo dataset: 10-min videos & language queries. ViLCo deals with memory complexity from long video clips, natural language complexity from open queries, and text-video misalignment, through a novel memory-efficient framework that incorporates SSL and long- & short-term memory. #NeurIPS2024
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
1. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... ⚒️ github.com/cruiseresear... 🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.13123 📍 Thu 12 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5406 ViLCo-Bench is designed to evaluate continual learning models across a range of video-text tasks. #NeurIPS2024
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NeurIPS Poster ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning BenchmarkNeurIPS 2024
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Check out our 3 NeurIPS 📌 in thread. 1. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 2. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 3. Resolution-Agnostic Transformer-based Climate Downscaling 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024... #NeurIPS2024
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 04/12/2024
Aperiodic* reminder that I put together a starter pack of CS academics in Australia+NZ: go.bsky.app/N5x6GLQ Let me know if you want to be added!
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Sounds like pun times ahead
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Yes not quite, as I went back straight into marking 😆
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Fun times yesterday celebrating my student Yonchanok Khaokaew’s PhD graduation with some of my team members
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