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Johannes Michael Altstidl @jmaltstidl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Just presented our @fau.de @taltstidl.bsky.social #ML study at #TCT2025 🌉 demonstrating 👉 accurate & daily refined predictions of neurological outcome after #cardiacarrest based on routinely collected clinical & laboratory parameters is feasible with #TabPFN 🔗 www.tctmd.com/slide/tct-91...

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Just in. Modern #FijiAirways A350 on its inaugural flight into NUE with special @fau.de livery #MovingKnowledge. Daily direct flights from Nuremberg to #Fiji start today, April 1, and #FAU members will receive a special 17.43% discount in homage to our university’s year of birth #1innovator

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Happy to have presented our work on a cross-platform smartphone auscultation SDK and optimized filters for severe aortic stenosis detection at this year's #HICSS58. Check out the full paper at hdl.handle.net/10125/109271

The author, Thomas Altstidl, presenting a slide showing two audio spectrograms

Sunrise painting a cloudy sky orange behind two palm trees at the ocean

The sun peeking through the clouds on a black sand beach with some cliffs in the distance

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Leaving #NeurIPS after two workshops on tabular and time series models, plus short visits to Lynn Canyon and the Vancouver Christmas Market. Shout-out to the @neuripsconf.bsky.social organizers for such a wonderful conference! Who knows, maybe I'll see some of you again in San Diego next year.

Waterfall seen looking down into Lynn Canyon, flanked by steep rocks and trees on both sides

Grove of trees with the sun peeking through

Vancouver Christmas Market with the Christmas pyramid selling mulled wine to the left and two lighted Christmas trees to the right

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

In other news: the test of time award went to two papers this year, "Generative Adversarial Nets" and "Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks." Both of them well deserved 🥳 That's a wrap for the main conference. Now looking forward to some engaging workshops.

Test of Time Award being presented for work first published in NIPS 2014

Test of Time Award presentation by David Warde-Farley for their paper "Generative Adversarial Nets"

Test of Time Award presentation by Ilya Sutskever for their paper "Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks"

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

At #NeurIPS yesterday we had an invited talk by Danica Kragic illustrating the progress we have made in robotics. And Rosalind Picard reminded us to keep focusing on the human element of our research - in more than one way.

Danica Kragic presenting a slide with a robotic hand mimicking the motion made by a real hand

Rosalind Picard presenting a slide containing a sketch of the human head and brain with the words visual cortex, perception, and audition next to it

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Yes, neural networks can encode information! Since seeing NeRF for the first time I'm always on the lookout for creative ways to use this capability. Here, a #NeurIPS paper using MLPs as signed distance fields for rigid-body collisions: sites.google.com/view/sdf-sim. What else could we use this for?

A graphic showing two objects, a cow and a knot, being represented as signed distance functions encoded in a multi-layer perceptron

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Yesterday's #NeurIPS invited talk by Lidong Zhou perfectly illustrated how hardware/software co-design has evolved in the age of AI to enable both more efficient and more powerful models. This was followed by a detailed technical review of diffusion models and beyond by Arnaud Doucet.

Lidong Zhou presenting a slide with the three key elements driving AI and systems: efficiency, trust, and infusion

Arnaud Doucet presenting a slide on generalizing diffusion models, with key mathematical equations and illustrative figures

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Stop by East Exhibit Hall A-C #2109 if you're interested in certified robustness at #NeurIPS. I'll be stuck there for three hours so I'm always happy to chat, whether about my work or otherwise 😉

Thomas Altstidl standing next to the poster "On the Scalability of Certified Adversarial Robustness with Generated Data."

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Besides some oral talks and gazillions of posters, yesterday's schedule at #NeurIPS also included invited talks by Sepp Hochreiter, who developed LSTM in his diploma, and Fei-Fei Li, who established the influential ImageNet. Last item on the agenda was the "After Dark" event.

Sepp Hochreiter speaking next to a slide titled "Toward Industrial Artificial Intelligence"

Fei-Fei Li speaking next to a slide outlining the three pillars of visual intelligence: understanding, reasoning, and generation

Purple and blue disco lights illuminating the NeurIPS After Dark event

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Impressively smooth convergence achieved by Defazio et al. in their paper "The Road Less Scheduled" at #NeurIPS. And since the code is available at github.com/facebookrese... it's easy to try it out on your own machine learning tasks. Time to get rid of the cosine scheduler?

Convergence graphs of three different schedulers

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

What better way to meet new friends at #NeurIPS than a hike in the surrounding mountains of Vancouver! Joined a few other conference attendees to see a magnificent waterfall, imposing mountain scenery and a lovely sunset to top it all off.

High and rushing waterfall flanked by trees on both sides

Four persons standing on a rock with a fjord and mountains in the distance

A few towering trees in the foreground with snowy mountains in the background illuminated by a sun peeking through the clouds

Sunset on a landscape with a fjord and partially snow covered mountains on each side

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Flew into Vancouver just in time for a beautiful sunset 🌅 Now looking forward to some sleep and a week of engaging discussions at #NeurIPS

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Hard to believe that #NeurIPS is just around the corner. Time to post a sneak peek of my poster. If you're interested in the scalability of certified robustness when adding more and more data, stop by for a quick chat on Thu, Dec 12 @ 11 am - 2 pm in East Exhibit Hall A-C #2109

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've officially joined the X-odus and moved to where the grass is greener and the skies are bluer. From now on I'll be exclusively posting on BlueSky 🦋 Hoping to see old friends, and make lots of new friends here.

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

What can human vision tell us about computer vision models? If this question interests you, definitely check out these two posters @eccvconf twitter.com/dariozanca/status/18403…

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

Looks like Friday to Saturday was the best night for the #NorthernLights. Here's a few photos. Not the best, but all I got. It's very rare to see them this far south @erlangen_de and, while faint, it was an amazing experience 🤩

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Last Saturday, 200+ students at 8 Bavarian locations competed in #TheTensorTournament hackathon organized by @FAU_MaD_Lab. Congrats to the winners Neural Ninjas, IDEK (both @UniFAU), and Drone Drivers (@TU_Muenchen). Thanks to all organizers and sponsors🎉 t.co/vOWOj2V3Tb

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Happy to announce "The Tensor Tournament" 2024 🎉 Join us on May 4th @UniFAU and across Bavaria for an unforgettable day of hacking. You can expect amazing prices, plus free food and drinks. Spots are limited, so build a team and secure your spot now 👉 the-tensor-tournament.de

the-tensor-tournament.de

The Tensor Tournament

A machine learning hackathon

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

In the spirit of celestral exploration, I wish all of you a Merry Christmas 🎄 (and if you're not celebrating it, a wonderful time off). Composite X-ray, optical and infrared image shows stars in the NGC 2264 "Christmas Tree Cluster" © NASA and partners t.co/JpBk6O55CJ

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Huge shout-out to the organizers @k_breininger @VisionBernie @anki_xyz for keeping us productive, entertained and well fed for four days. I had a blast and also stumbled across a few interesting papers at #reproduceCVPR twitter.com/k_breininger/status/173…

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Here's a little known @github feature I just learned about that's great for #scientists. If you add a CITATION file to your repo there will be a quick shortcut to cite your paper in the sidebar. To add your own head to t.co/5SagvIbywO

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

@jmaltstidl presenting our early work on smartphone-based phonocardiography for aortic stenosis detection at #ESC2023 in beautiful #Amsterdam 🌷

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

With #NeurIPS2023 rebuttals in full swing, who else would like to see @openreviewnet adopt reviewer names similar to @MLflow or @weights_biases run names? I'd very much prefer thanking reviewer industrious-sloth-911 for their thoughtful comments compared to a reviewer GaU7 😅

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

Happy to see a @UniFAU alumnus win the best paper award at this year's #IJCNN2023 conference. Also think he'd deserve another award for most hyphens in a paper title 😉 twitter.com/RichardGerum/status/167…

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 09/01/2023

@GeyserTimes has received an honorable mention in this week's #Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles. An excellent weekly read for anyone interested in the work done by the #YVO by the way. Check out the full article here 👉 t.co/REiplfVrHs

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 25/12/2022

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄 In true #ML engineer fashion I asked #dalle2 to generate some Christmas illustrations with Old Faithful geyser. Results were inconsistent, but I thought I'd share two of the better ones 🦌

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 01/12/2022

Want to score high with your machine learning skills? Then join us for The Tensor Tournament @UniFAU! 3 ML challenges, free food and drinks, and amazing prices await you. Register now for your chance to win Coral AI dev boards. 👉 mad.tf.fau.de/t3

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 18/11/2022

Cool research by @MeriFilo03! Of our five senses, only vision and hearing are commonly replicated digitally. Touch is certainly a welcome addition. Olfactory would be amazing, but seems a lot further off. twitter.com/dariozanca/status/15935…

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 30/09/2022

Super Frying Pan in the Lower Geyser Basin of @YellowstoneNPS is totally underrated. Basically grew up with it and remember when it still was sizzling from some cracks. Now it’s a major feature that commonly splashes the boardwalk, to the delight of many. #Yellowstone150

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Thomas Altstidl @taltstidl.bsky.social · 22/09/2022

Second burst of Grand geyser in @YellowstoneNPS yesterday, the world’s tallest predictable geyser at 200 feet. Most only have one burst, though up to four bursts have been reported as recently as 2021. One in 1983 had eleven! #Yellowstone150

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