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Max Ilse

@maxilse.bsky.social
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Working at microsoft research health futures. Interested in causal representation learning and generative modelling applied to medical data.

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Max Ilse @maxilse.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🩻Excited to share our latest preprint: “Data Scaling Laws for Radiology Foundation Models” Foundation vision encoders like CLIP and DINOv2 have transformed general computer vision, but what happens when we scale them for medical imaging? 📄 Read the full preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12818
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Data Scaling Laws for Radiology Foundation Models
Foundation vision encoders such as CLIP and DINOv2, trained on web-scale data, exhibit strong transfer performance across tasks and datasets. However, medical imaging foundation models remain constrai...
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Max Ilse @maxilse.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
What a damning abstract
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Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I want to reshare @brandfonbrener.bsky.social's @NeurIPSConf 2024 paper on CoLoR-Filter: A simple yet powerful method for selecting high-quality data for language model pre-training! With @hlzhang109.bsky.social @schwarzjn.bsky.social @shamkakade.bsky.social
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
⚫⚪ It's coming...SHADES. ⚪⚫ The first ever resource of multilingual, multicultural, and multigeographical stereotypes, built to support nuanced LLM evaluation and bias mitigation. We have been working on this around the world for almost **4 years** and I am thrilled to share it with you all soon.
Screenshot of 'SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models.'
SHADES is in multiple grey colors (shades).
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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We’re looking for a motivated researcher to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc with our Econometrics & Data Science group at SDU! Focus: Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Big Data Full support for promising projects More info & apply: www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/in...
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Econometrics and Data Science
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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Apply! Assistant Professor (L/SL) in AI, including computer vision [DL 5 Mar] @BristolUni - awarded AI University of the Year in 2024. DM to myself or @_SethBullock_ for inquiries (don't us send CV pls!, apply directly) www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🎓 💫 We are opening post-doc positions at the intersection of AI, data science, and medicine: • Large Language Models for French medical texts • Evaluating digital medical devices: statistics and causal inference
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/01/2025
If you name your AI benchmark "Humanity's Last Exam" and get Kevin Roose to gush about it, you work in advertising, not in computer science. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
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When A.I. Passes This Test, Look Out
The creators of a new test called “Humanity’s Last Exam” argue we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models.
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Stephanie Hyland @hylandsl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Happy to announce a collaboration with the Mayo Clinic to advance our research in radiology report generation! newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/m... Tagging some of the core team: @valesalvatelli.bsky.social @fepegar.com @maxilse.bsky.social @sambondtaylor.bsky.social @anton-sc.bsky.social
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Hendrik Heuer @hheuer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The video of our talk "From Augustus to #Trump – Why #Disinformation Remains a Problem and What We Can Do About It Anyway" at #38c3, Europe's largest Hacker conference, was published, including the German original and English and Spanish translations: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-von-a...
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David Rolnick @drolnick.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Internship in our group at Mila in reinforcement learning + graphs for reducing energy use in buildings. More info and submit an application by Jan 13 here: forms.gle/TCChXnvSAHqz... Questions? Email donna.vakalis@mila.quebec with [intern!] in the subject line.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024
Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇 Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles. PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
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Contents
1 Introduction 217
2 Positionality 221
3 Overview of Risks and Harms Associated with Computer
Vision Systems and Proposed Mitigation Strategies 223
3.1 Representational Harms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
3.2 Quality-of-Service and Allocative Harms . . . . . . . . . . 229
3.3 Interpersonal Harms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
3.4 Societal Harms: System Destabilization and Exacerbating
Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
4 Frameworks and Principles for Computer Vision
Researchers 266
4.1 Guidelines for Responsible Data and Model Development . 267
4.2 Measurement Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
4.3 Reflexivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
5 Reorientations of Computer Vision Research 276
5.1 Grounded in Historical Context and Considering
Power Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
5.2 Small, Task Specific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
5.3 Community-Rooted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280Screenshot of Table of Contents (Part 2)

6 Systemic Change 285
6.1 Collective Action and Whistleblowing . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
6.2 Refusal/The Right not to Build Something . . . . . . . . . 287
6.3 Independent Funding Outside of Military and Multinational
Corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
7 Conclusion 291
References 293
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Help us commemorate victims, preserve memory & educate the world. Amplify our voice. Your interaction here is more than just a click. It is an act of remembrance against forgetting. Like, share, or quote our posts. Let people know that @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social is present here.
Posts, barbed wire fences and the main gate of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New timeline, same problems, same solution
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Max Ilse @maxilse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Kudos to @blackhc.bsky.social for calling out this neurips oral: openreview.net/forum?id=0NM... for not giving the rho-loss paper (arxiv.org/abs/2206.07137) the recognition it deserves!
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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 10/12/2024
In all of the reposts I see of articles criticising generative AI, I still don't see enough mention of work like Dr. Birhane's, which shows the biases against disadvantaged groups in the training datasets. This is very good.
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Shakir Mohamed @shakirm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The next generation of probabilistic machine learning for weather called GenCast is published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social today 🥳. Amazing to see the collective progress in ML for weather as a field over the last 5 years. 🏖️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning - Nature
GenCast, a probabilistic weather model using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, has greater skill and speed than the top operational medium-range weather forecast in the world and provid...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
One of the reasons the university sector has come so spectacularly off the rails is the fact it's so unfriendly to family life, people with caring responsibilities and parents. The attitude is often: 'Not working 24/7? You're not fully committed!' www.science.org/content/arti...
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Max Ilse @maxilse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is just sad
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Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Medically adapted foundation models (think Med-*) turn out to be more hot air than hot stuff. Correcting for fatal flaws in evaluation, the current crop are no better on balance than generic foundation models, even on the very tasks for which benefits are claimed. arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118
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Medical Adaptation of Large Language and Vision-Language Models: Are We Making Progress?
Several recent works seek to develop foundation models specifically for medical applications, adapting general-purpose large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) via continued pret...
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What a surprise (not!). Yet again ... poor evaluations of specialized medical LLMs result in overhyped claims relative to the base LLMs. #bioMLeval
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Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Even as an interpretable ML researcher, I wasn't sure what to make of Mechanistic Interpretability, which seemed to come out of nowhere not too long ago. But then I found the paper "Mechanistic?" by @nsaphra.bsky.social and @sarah-nlp.bsky.social, which clarified things.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I can't find African Scientists and researchers easily on here. As the second largest continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants our perspectives matter. I'm creating a starterpack to find folks, follow them and amplify them. If you are an African Scientist let me know below so I can add you. Thanks.
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Max Ilse @maxilse.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Following the example of @sedielem.bsky.social I will repost some content: Our latest work is using image editing via diffusion to stress-test biomedical vision models. paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.12865 code and model weights: huggingface.co/microsoft/ra... blog: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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RadEdit: stress-testing biomedical vision models via diffusion image editing
Biomedical imaging datasets are often small and biased, meaning that real-world performance of predictive models can be substantially lower than expected from internal testing. This work proposes usin...
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Andreas Sauter @awmsauter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We recently published CausalPlayground, a python library for causal data generation that can easily integrate with gymnasium. I hope that this can be useful for many. Check it out on GitHub github.com/sa-and/Causa...
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GitHub - sa-and/CausalPlayground: The CausalPlayground library serves as a tool for causality research, focusing on the interactive exploration of structural causal models (SCMs). It provides extensiv...
The CausalPlayground library serves as a tool for causality research, focusing on the interactive exploration of structural causal models (SCMs). It provides extensive functionality for creating, m...
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