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TTIC @tticconnect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1/4 The Dynamics of Deep Learning. "Trying to understand deep learning...comes down to understanding this interaction of three components that make the deep learning system," said @danielkunin.bsky.social, speaking at TTIC in April last year. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eMW...

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"Learning Mechanics of Neural Networks" - Daniel Kunin, Young Researcher Series Seminar

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TTIC @tticconnect.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/5 "Sometimes words are not enough," said Yael Vinker, @yaelvinker.bsky.social, of @csail.mit.edu at TTIC's Young Researcher Seminar Series in Nov '25. "I want to teach machines to speak the language of sketches." This involves using visual means to communicate concepts under a set of constraints.

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Organisers: Viorica Patraucean, Joao Carreira, Fedor Kitashov, Shiry Ginosar, Dima Damen, Andrew Zisserman #ECCV #PerceptionTest #SpatialAI #ComputerVision #VQA #MachineLearning

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our workshop investigates spatial representations across scales, from table-top tasks to hour-long urban trajectories, bridging the gap between biological perception and artificial systems. 🏆 Challenge awards: Announcing the winners of the 4th Perception Test challenge.

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#ECCV2026 workshop! 🌐 Spatial Intelligence: from Table-top to City-scale The 4th Perception Test Challenge 📅 9 Sep 2026 | 09:00 – 12:30 CEST 🎙 Keynotes by Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley), Laura Leal-Taixé (TUM), and Andrew Davison (Imperial). 🔗 Schedule: perception-test-challenge.github.io

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The Fourth Perception Test Challenge at ECCV 2026

The 4th Perception Test Challenge at ECCV 2026 evaluates models on small scale and large scale spatial intelligence, with 20K EUR in prizes.

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Calling all #SIGGRAPH2026 film editing buffs! 🎬 Come check out our FilmGPT talk! 🕝 2:40 PM PDT 📍 Room 408B

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Talk: 2:40pm PDT Wednesday, 22 July 2026 Room 408 B With Marcelo Sandoval-Castañeda, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Bryan Russell, Josef Sivic, Alexei A. Efros, and @gregshakh.bsky.social

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Introducing FilmGPT 🎬 (#SIGGRAPH2026) Can we learn the grammar of film directly from movies? We train an autoregressive transformer on feature films to edit raw footage into coherent cinematic sequences, without generating new pixels. Project page: mudtriangle.com/filmgpt Demo below👇

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Looking forward to the pendulum swing there and back again 🙂 Always fabulous debating science with you!

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Fans of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis argue that all representations converge. However, we find that the current experimental evidence for the PRH is surprisingly fragile. Instead, models may develop their own “Umwelten” (distinct, model-specific views of the world).

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Great to see corroborating evidence to our motion-forecasting.github.io work from other groups! Check out this concurrent great work from @stefanabaumann.bsky.social, @jannik-w.bsky.social, @tommymarto.bsky.social, Mahdi M. Kalayeh, and Björn Ommer (@compvis.bsky.social)

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

riddle for kids that combines first/third person perspectives: where are the firefighters on the map?

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I see your kids are also subscribed to Einayim! The best magazine ever! :-)

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We take a step toward behavior modeling in the wild: general non-rigid motion forecasting! The coolest part: training on diverse animal behavior is enough to generalize to completely OOD motion. Amazing work from @neerjathakkar.bsky.social, with @carldoersch.bsky.social's technical know-how!

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🚨 Can real-world human experiences shape the future of generative AI and computer vision systems? Find out at Humans of Generative AI (HuG) workshop at #CVPR2026 🚨 Accepting 1-page extended abstracts for lightning talks and posters 🗓 Deadline: April 10, 2026 See: humansofgenerativeai.github.io

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

💫 I am recruiting exceptional PhD students & postdocs for my lab @tticconnect.bsky.social this year! Application details: www.ttic.edu/studentappli...

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

TTIC is hiring tenure track faculty! Come join us in Chicago! I am sadly not at ICCV but Greg Shakhnarovich (Vision) home.ttic.edu/~gregory/ and Matt Walter (Robotics) home.ttic.edu/~mwalter/ are around and would be happy to chat.

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

@alisongopnik.bsky.social's talk happening now!! Ballroom B @iccv.bsky.social

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

With a star-studded organizing team from Google DeepMind, @ox.ac.uk, @bristoluni.bsky.social, and @tticconnect.bsky.social Joe Heyward, @nikparth1.bsky.social, @tylerzhu.bsky.social , Aravindh Mahendran, Joao Carreira, @dimadamen.bsky.social, Andrew Zisserman, Viorica Patraucean

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Guest track 2: Our one and only KiVA Challenge!!! kiva-challenge.github.io Veo can (almost...) do it!!! can you?? video-zero-shot.github.io With @euniceyiu.bsky.social, Anisa Noor Majhi, Maan Qraitem, Kate Saenko, @alisongopnik.bsky.social

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KiVA Challenge @ ICCV 2025

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Guest track 1: Physics IQ physics-iq.github.io/workshop/phy... With Robert Geirhos, Priyank Jaini, Luc Van Gool, and Saman Motamed

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Physics-IQ Challenge @ ICCV 2025

Test your video model’s physical plausibility in the Physics-IQ Challenge at ICCV 2025.

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Join us TODAY for the 3rd Perception Test Challenge perception-test-challenge.github.io @iccv.bsky.social Ballroom B, Full day Amazing lineup of speakers: Ali Farhadi, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Phlipp Krahenbul, @phillipisola.bsky.social

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

TODAY! Artificial Social Intelligence Workshop @iccv.bsky.social Room 317B, Full day Social reasoning, multimodality, and embodiment! Speakers: Evonne Ng, @tianminshu.bsky.social @hyunwoo-kim.bsky.social, @diyiyang.bsky.social ang.bsky.social, @hokulabs.bsky.social, @michael-j-black.bsky.social

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

KiVA (Kid-inspired Visual Analogies) Challenge Test Phase is NOW LIVE (Sep 1–Oct 6)! Can your model reason like a child? Can it beat adults? 🥇 $1,000 🥈 $500 for 2 runner-ups Join/submit: t.co/zQwA1Nmohy And join us at @iccv.bsky.social in Hawaii!! 🌴

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I am giving a talk this morning at 10:40AM PST as part of the #ICML2025 Workshop on Assessing World Models. Title: "What Do Vision and Vision-Language Models Really Know About the World?" Come join us! www.worldmodelworkshop.org

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ICML Workshop on Assessing World Models

Date: Friday, July 18 2025 Time: 8:45am - 5:15pm (Pacific Time) Location: West Ballroom B at ICML 2025 in Vancouver, Canada (Same Floor as Registration)

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Join us for 3rd Perception Test Workshop &Challenge @iccv.bsky.social #iccv2025 *NEW* this year: - 3 unified tracks - novel interpretability track - guest tracks: KiVA and Physics-IQ - 4 world-class speakers (see pic) Up to 50K in prizes sponsored by Google DeepMind 🧵 for details [1/4]

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🧠How “old” is your model? Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults. 🏆 Prizes: 🥇$1K to the top model 🥈🥉$500 📅 Deadline: 10/7/25 🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io @iccv.bsky.social

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KiVA Challenge @ ICCV 2025

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

When it comes to goal-directed work, people prioritize controllable variability (a.k.a. empowerment!). But in undirected play, we shift toward embracing pure variability. Check out our forthcoming Phil. Trans. A (2026) paper!

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Check out our new paper at #ICLR2025, where we show that multi-task neural decoding is both possible and beneficial. As well, the latents of a model trained only on neural activity capture information about brain regions and cell-types. Step-by-step, we're gonna scale up folks! 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

🎧 Listen to the podcast! Professor @alisongopnik.bsky.social and @newamerica.org CEO @slaughteram.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about how rethinking our approach to caregiving and how we support care providers could lead to a better society. 🔗:

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Alison Gopnik and Anne-Marie Slaughter on Why We’re Not Paying Enough Attention to Caregiving

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

With Eunice Yiu, Maan Qraitem, Anisa Noor Majhi, Charlie Wong, Yutong Bai, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, and Kate Saenko. @iclr-conf.bsky.social

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Think LMMs can reason like a 3-year-old? Think again! Our Kid-Inspired Visual Analogies benchmark reveals where young children still win: ey242.github.io/kiva.github.... Catch our #ICLR2025 poster today to see where models still fall short! Thurs. April 24 3-5:30 pm Halls 3 + 2B #312

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Neuroscience is finally taking more and more baby steps towards running experiments at scale!

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

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‘Natural Neuroscience,’ an excerpt

In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Welcome to TTIC!! We are so excited to have you join us!!

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carldoersch.bsky.social @carldoersch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Did Italo Calvino discover bag of words and topic models in 1979?

She explained to me that a suitably programmed computer can read a novel in a few minutes and record the list of all the words contained in the text, in order of frequency. "That way I can have an already completed reading at hand," Lotaria says, "with an incalculable saving of time. What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings? An electronic reading supplies me with a list of the frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study. Naturally, at the highest frequencies the list records countless articles, pronouns, particles, but I don't pay them any attention. I head straight for the words richest in meaning; they can give me a fairly precise notion of the book."

Lotaria brought me some novels electronically transcribed, in the form of words listed in the order of their frequency. "In a novel of fifty to a hundred thousand words," she said to me, "I advise you to observe immediately the words that are repeated about twenty times. Look here. Words that appear nineteen times:

blood, cartridge belt, commander, do, have, im-
mediately, it, life, seen, sentry, shots, spider, teeth,
together, your...

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boys, cap, come, dead, eat, enough, evening,
French, go, handsome, new, passes, period, po-
tatoes, those, until...

"Don't you already have a clear idea what it's about?" Lotaria says. "There's no question: it's a war novel, all action, brisk writing, with a certain underlying violence. The narration is entirely on the surface, I would say; but

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

That is a fantastic book! But now I realize I don't remember it at all and need to re-read it ;-)

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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what. But it doesn't have to. Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen." www.science.org/content/blog...

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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

What does that mean? It's both my kids' favorite book ever ;-)

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 19/01/2025

Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Fantastic work from @jathushan.bsky.social! With Xinlei Chen, Rulilong Li, Christoph Feichtenhofer, and Jitendra Malik

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

New paper! A self-supervised object-centric 2.1D image representation using 3D Gaussians, extending MAE with a Gaussian bottleneck. While Gaussian splatting has been used for single-scene reconstruction, we’re the first to apply it to image representation learning! brjathu.github.io/gmae/.

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

No, but it does a fantastic job of giving feedback if you take it at Harvard in person :-) Does Cornell not have a good undergrad programming class with hands-on feedback to students?

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

OK now serious - what I didn't learn in undergrad (and there are fantastic courses where students get hands-on feedback such as Harvard's CS50: pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-...) I learned in industry. It may be a good use of time to find a good mentor and send the student for an internship.

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CS50: Introduction to Computer Science | Harvard University

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

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