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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Learn about new tools for summarizing a probability distribution more effectively than independent sampling during the #JSM2026 IMS Medallion Award & Lecture III at 2:00 p.m. in CC-210B. Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research New England) will present “Better-than-i.i.d. Sampling.” tinyurl.com/z2km2mtp

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Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A look at what’s next in AI, plus new research in multimodal reasoning, long-horizon robotics, scalable self-supervised learning, GPU optimization with AI, and interpretable LLM reasoning. msft.it/6012tfazi

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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Eric Zimmermann, Harley Wiltzer, Justin Szeto, David Alvarez-Melis, Lester Mackey: KerJEPA: Kernel Discrepancies for Euclidean Self-Supervised Learning arxiv.org/abs/2512.19605 arxiv.org/pdf/2512.19605 arxiv.org/html/2512.19605

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Lester Mackey @lestermackey.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I’m happy to share our new paper, “KerJEPA: Kernel Discrepancies for Euclidean Self-Supervised Learning”: arxiv.org/abs/2512.19605 This work builds on the LeJEPA framework by reinterpreting its regularization objective through the lens of kernel discrepancies.

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Lester Mackey @lestermackey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If you're a PhD student interested in interning with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Microsoft Research New England @msftresearch.bsky.social this summer, please apply here jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... If you'd like to work with me, please include my name in your cover letter!

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Dylan Foster 🐢 @djfoster.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Microsoft Research New York City (www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...) is seeking applicants for multiple Postdoctoral Researcher positions in ML/AI! These are positions for up to 2 years, starting in July 2026. Application deadline: October 22, 2025

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Apply for a research position at Microsoft Research New York & collaborate with academia to advance economics research, prediction markets & ML.

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Andrew Campbell @arcampbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Very excited to share our preprint: Self-Speculative Masked Diffusions We speed up sampling of masked diffusion models by ~2x by using speculative sampling and a hybrid non-causal / causal transformer arxiv.org/abs/2510.03929 w/ @vdebortoli.bsky.social, Jiaxin Shi, @arnauddoucet.bsky.social

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Lester Mackey @lestermackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Could this be our future? (Sound on)

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Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The Microsoft Research Undergraduate Internship Program offers 12-week internships in our Redmond, NYC, or New England labs for rising juniors and seniors who are passionate about technology. Apply by October 6: msft.it/6015scgSJ

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Lester Mackey @lestermackey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

If you're an undergraduate interested in interning with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Microsoft Research New England this summer, please apply here: msft.it/6015scgSJ

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Undergraduate Research Internship – Computing - Microsoft Research

Accepting applications for 12-week summer research internships for juniors & senior undergrads w/ demonstrated leadership in diversity.

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Rocío Mercado Oropeza @rociomer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Tomorrow we're excited to host @sarahalamdari.bsky.social at Chalmers for the AI4Science seminar and hear about generative models for protein design! Talk at 3pm CEST. 🤩 For more info, including details on how to join virtually, please see psolsson.github.io/AI4ScienceSe... @smnlssn.bsky.social

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

In 1965, Margaret Dayhoff published the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, which collated the 65 proteins whose amino acid sequences were then known. Inspired by that Atlas, today we are releasing the Dayhoff Atlas of protein sequence data and protein language models.

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Annabelle Michael Carrell @ab-carrell.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So you want to skip our thinning proofs—but you’d still like our out-of-the-box attention speedups? I’ll be presenting the Thinformer at two ICML workshop posters tomorrow! Catch me at Es-FoMo (1-2:30, East hall A) and at LCFM (10:45-11:30 & 3:30-4:30, West 202-204)

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arXiv stat.ML Machine Learning @statml-bot.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Jikai Jin, Lester Mackey, Vasilis Syrgkanis: It's Hard to Be Normal: The Impact of Noise on Structure-agnostic Estimation arxiv.org/abs/2507.02275 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02275 arxiv.org/html/2507.02275

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Ferenc Huszár @inference.vc · 12/07/2025

Off to ICML next week? Check out my student Annabelle’s paper in collaboration with @lestermackey.bsky.social and colleagues on low-rank thinning! New theory, dataset compression, efficient attention and more: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12063

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Low-Rank Thinning

The goal in thinning is to summarize a dataset using a small set of representative points. Remarkably, sub-Gaussian thinning algorithms like Kernel Halving and Compress can match the quality of unifor...

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Annabelle Michael Carrell @ab-carrell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Your data is low-rank, so stop wasting compute! In our new paper on low-rank thinning, we share one weird trick to speed up Transformer inference, SGD training, and hypothesis testing at scale. Come by ICML poster W-1012 Tuesday at 4:30!

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arxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Jikai Jin, Lester Mackey, Vasilis Syrgkanis It's Hard to Be Normal: The Impact of Noise on Structure-agnostic Estimation arxiv.org/abs/2507.02275

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

NeurIPS is seeking additional ethics reviewers this year. If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at the form in the link: neurips.cc/Conferences/... Please share this call with your colleagues!

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a doctor of public heath (DrPH) @drrwby.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🏆 I'm delighted to share that I've won a 2025 COPSS Emerging Leader Award! 😃 And congratulations to my fellow winners! 🙌🏽 Check out how each of us is improving and advancing the profession of #statistics and #datascience here: tinyurl.com/copss-emerging-leader-award

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 14/03/2025

Congratulations to the 2025 #COPSS Awardees, @ericjdaza.com, @lucystats.bsky.social, @lestermackey.bsky.social, and all of you. I hope to congratulate you at #JSM2025 in Nashville with @amstatnews.bsky.social. God I hope to go. #rstats #statssky

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

NeurIPS 2025 is soliciting self-nominations for reviewers and ACs. Please read our blog post for details on eligibility criteria, and process to self-nominate:

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Congratulations to @lestermackey.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 COPSS Award! 🎉👏 Lester is currently the Chair of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences (SBSS) of the American Statistical Association.

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Konstantin Klemmer @kklmmr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Off to #AAAI25! We're presenting #SatCLIP (w/ @marccoru.bsky.social, @estherrolf.bsky.social, @calebrob6.bsky.social & @lestermackey.bsky.social) at the 12.30-2.30pm poster session on Feb 28! Let me know if you're around & want to chat #GeoAI!🛰️ Paper: tinyurl.com/5eejz5kw Code: tinyurl.com/2zm64967

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

idk dude it's 30 pages of proofs and then they drop this

Quality of T2T-ViT attention approximations on ImageNet. Their method is faster than everything but Performer, while losing less accuracy than any other approximation (including Performer, which is too lossy to really show up in prod).

Time-power trade-off curves for detecting Higgs bosons with deep kernel MMD tests. Their method is way past pareto optimal.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've been shocked that a theory-driven method yields practical results this good, especially on attention approximation. I proposed my best new optimizer design originally as a dumb baseline; the fact that you can get these efficiency gains with a principled approach makes me a lil insecure.

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The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky @datatherapist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Probably Attentively Correct models

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Lester Mackey @lestermackey.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New guarantees for approximating attention, accelerating SGD, and testing sample quality in near-linear time

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Lester Mackey @lestermackey.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Why permute when you can cheaply permute?

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Please read our statement on the remarks made by Dr. Rosalind Picard at her NeurIPS 2024 invited talk and our commitment to respect, inclusivity, and upholding our values: neurips.cc/Conferences/2024/StatementOnInclusivity

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Invited Talk, Right now! The Golem vs. Stone Soup: Understanding How Children Learn Can Help Us Understand And Improve AI Alison Gopnik West Exhibition Hall C, B3 Watch online: buff.ly/4g7tvuI

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Lester Mackey @lestermackey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If you're a PhD student interested in interning with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Microsoft Research New England this summer, please apply here jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

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