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Yisong Yue

@yisongyue.bsky.social
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AI professor at Caltech. General Chair ICLR 2025. www.yisongyue.com

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
On September 10th, we lost one of the kindest souls to ever prance across planet Earth. I'm grateful I was able to say goodbye before she passed. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
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Remembering Lavina Jadhwani 1983–2025 - Chicago Reader
The director, writer, and advocate died September 10, leaving a rich legacy as a theatermaker, mentor, and friend at theaters across the U.S.
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
First time receiving a figurine of myself!
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Atharva Sehgal @aseg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I’m presenting Escher (trishullab.github.io/escher-web) at #cvpr2025 Saturday morning (Poster Session #3). Escher builds a visual concept library with a vision‑language critic (no human labels needed). Swing by if you’d like to chat about program synthesis & multimodal reasoning!
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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Steered generation for protein optimization: On datasets with ~10^2 measurements, steering a discrete diffusion model outperforms RL on a protein language model for generating improved variants. @jsunn-y.bsky.social @francesarnold.bsky.social @yisongyue.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2505.15093
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I am DONE as Faculty Search Chair for @caltech.edu and DONE with General Chair for @iclr-conf.bsky.social! Hoping for an academic year with much less service work 🥂
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Thrilled to see Ben Riviere start his own group at @nyutandon.bsky.social & @nyucourant.bsky.social! Space robots meets AI! Check him out here: sites.google.com/view/riviere...
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Congratulations to Cloris Cheng for winning a Hertz Fellowship! It's been a pleasure working with such a brilliant, enthusiastic and kind person. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...
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Caltech-Affiliated Students Awarded 2025 Hertz Fellowships
Caltech fourth-year student Cloris Cheng and incoming graduate student Edward Chen have been awarded Hertz Fellowships for five years of graduate study.
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
That's a wrap for #ICLR2025! See you all next year in Brazil! Please all welcome @bharathhariharan.bsky.social as the new Senior Program Chair! (With @cvondrick.bsky.social continuing on as General Chair.)
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Thanks to everyone for helping make #ICLR2025 successful. 🥳 It was an honor to serve as General Chair. The best part was using @iclr-conf.bsky.social as my personal meme account the past two years (first as Senior Program Chair). I hope that future ICLR organizers continue the tradition. 🤪
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
#ICLR2025 Opening Reception Highlight Video, courtesy of SlidesLive. slideslive.com/39038386/icl...
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ICLR 2025 Opening Reception Highlight Video · SlidesLive
Professional Conference Recording
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Last day of #ICLR2025. Let's make it count! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💨
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Huge thanks to the #ICLR2025 Organizing Committee (including many who couldn't make it to the conference) 👏👏👏
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Poster session for InverseBench is happening now! #ICLR2025 devzhk.github.io/InverseBench/
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#ICLR2025 Expo Exhibits. #FeelTheAGI (or at least a chatbot)
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#ICLR2025 opening ceremony cultural performance
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Lily Xu @lilyxu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Monday Hall 4 #3 Climate Change AI workshop, where we have: 🧪 @yisongyue.bsky.social keynote on AI for Science 🐘 Iadine Chades keynote on AI for Biodiversity Panels 🌏 Opportunities for ML for Climate Action in Asia ☀️ Data-Centric ML in Climate Applications www.climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...
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Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
ICLR 2025 Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Loving this poster session energy! #ICLR2025
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Who is jetlagged and ready to ROCK!? #ICLR2025 Let's gooooo!!!! 😱😱💪💪
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
📢📢 Junior researchers attending #ICLR2025, be sure to check out the mentoring chat sessions! More info here: blog.iclr.cc/2025/04/23/i... You can find all the sessions on the ICLR.cc schedule!
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
For #ICLR2025, we piloted an LLM that provided optional feedback to some reviewers. Results are promising: over 12K suggestions were incorporated by reviewers to improve review quality. See our blog post for details and more analysis blog.iclr.cc/2025/04/15/l...
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Leveraging LLM feedback to enhance review quality – ICLR Blog
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The calm before the storm #ICLR2025 🔥🔥🔥
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
On my way to Singapore for #ICLR2025. My first (and hopefully last) time General Chairing a major AI conference 😂 Looking forward to exciting conversations about frontiers of AI, its impact to science and engineering, and new opportunities!
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Absolutely infuriating chicanery. Yes, technically the government terminated SEVIS records, rather than revoked visas. But if you don't have a SEVIS record, then a university cannot verify that you are legally allowed to be in the US and enrolled as a student. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Government Defends Itself Against Visa Revocations
Lawyers for the federal government say terminating students’ SEVIS records does not actually mean those students’ legal status in this country has changed. Immigration lawyers are skeptical.
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
One of my PhD students got their visa revoked. I know of other cases amongst my AI colleagues. This is not what investing in US leadership in AI looks like. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...
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US revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets?
Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo.
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Lily Xu @lilyxu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thrilled to be co-organizing the Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop at #ICLR2025 and bringing in these fantastic keynote speakers! Join us April 28 (in Singapore or free livestream) to hear from @yisongyue.bsky.social on AI for science and Iadine Chades on AI for biodiversity.
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Announcing the Test of Time awards for ICLR 2025! This award recognizes papers published ten years ago at ICLR 2015 that have had a lasting impact on the field. Congratulations to the authors! blog.iclr.cc/2025/04/14/a...
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Announcing the Test of Time Award Winners from ICLR 2015 – ICLR Blog
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
TLDR: if you can train video diffusion priors, then solving video inverse problems can be done much simpler and more accurately than heavily engineered approaches based on image diffusion priors. Examples below for black hole video reconstruction and dynamic MRI.
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The worst kind of trolls are those who don't even realize they're trolls, but rather some righteous savior of the universe.
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Announcing the keynote speakers for #ICLR2025! Speakers will cover topics ranging from foundational advances in language models, AI safety, open-ended learning, and the nature of intelligence itself. blog.iclr.cc/2025/04/11/a...
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Neehar Kondapaneni @therealpaneni.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Have you ever wondered what makes two models different? We all know the ViT-Large performs better than the Resnet-50, but what visual concepts drive this difference? Our new ICLR 2025 paper addresses this question! nkondapa.github.io/rsvc-page/
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kyunghyuncho.bsky.social @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
the most succinct and informative figure demonstrating the relationship between academic science and biotechs by @yisongyue.bsky.social
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Geeling Chau @geelingc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Looking forward to joining the FM for neuro conversation at the #COSYNE2025 workshops! I will be sharing some of our experiences scaling models for iEEG datasets with variable layouts and high-resolution temporal signals. Hope to see you there!
COSYNE 2025 Tuesday April 01, 2025 / 10:40 AM - 11:05 AM "Population Transformer: Learning Population-level Representations of Neural Activity" - Geeling Chau
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Happy Pi Day!
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We present InverseBench for benchmarking plug-and-play diffusion approaches for inverse problems in physical sciences. PnP diffusion approaches are attractive for scientific inverse problems because they can flexibly incorporate domain-specific models. Website: devzhk.github.io/InverseBench/
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We are seeking Volunteer & Mentorship Chairs for #ICLR2025. forms.gle/7pjaftGPsW54... Initial work (signing up volunteers & mentors) will start soon. Bulk of work is closer to conference (assigning volunteers to tasks, office hours for mentors). Can offer registration & hotel accommodations.
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ICLR Organizing Committee Sign-up Form
Indicating interest in Volunteer Chair and/or Mentorship Chair
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ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Who is ready to eat yummy food! #ICLR2025 #Singapore
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In the thick of faculty hiring deliberations. It's so striking how critical the job talk is. The job talk sets the stage for all subsequent evaluations. Well worth optimizing it squeeze out any last margins.
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Having now done both, I can honestly say: Senior Program Chair for @iclr-conf.bsky.social is (significantly) more work than Chairing the @caltech.edu Faculty Search. (Although both are a lot of work.)
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Since everyone wants to learn RL for language models now post DeepSeek, reminder that I've been working on this book quietly in the background for months. Policy gradient chapter is coming together. Plugging away at the book every day now. rlhfbook.com/c/11-policy-...
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you want to quickly catch up on all the open modeling things (DeepSeek, ModernBERT, etc.), this was a great overview, by @natolambert.bsky.social. I somehow got into an argument last week with someone who was insisting that all models are industrial blackboxes... and I wish I'd had this on hand.
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The latest open artifacts (#6): Reasoning models, China's lead in open-source, and a growing multimodal space
Artifacts log 6 The open LM ecosystem yet again accelerates.
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Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
if you would like to attend #ICLR2025 but have financial barriers, apply for financial assistance! our priority categories are student authors, and contributors from underrepresented demographic groups & geographic regions. deadline is march 2nd. iclr.cc/Conferences/...
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ICLR 2025 Financial Assistance
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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · 21/01/2025
Last year, we funded 250 authors and other contributors to attend #ICLR2024 in Vienna as part of this program. If you or your organization want to directly support contributors this year, please get in touch! Hope to see you in Singapore at #ICLR2025!
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Jason Yang @jsunn-y.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Happy to share that our work on Active Learning-Assisted Directed Evolution is now published in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Check out the original thread here: x.com/jsunn_y/stat...
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
View from Caltech Library. The burnt area is Altadena. Looks much worse in real life than in the photo, as the scene surrounds your field of view and is truly massive.
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
What a difference a week makes. #EatonFire
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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 13/01/2025
We are looking for volunteers for reviewing and AC roles! Please sign up here: forms.gle/rZp67YvMn1hn...
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COLM 2025 Program Committee Volunteer Form
This form is to volunteer to serve on the COLM 2025 (https://colmweb.org/) program committee as a reviewer or an area chair.
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Returned to Caltech. Inspected the wind damage.
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Miles Cranmer @milescranmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
[You Are Here] ↓ Agent ↓ LLM ↓ High-level language ↓ Low-level language ↓ Assembly ↓ Machine code "AI will replace programmers!" No – each level up this abstraction stack is still programming. AI won't eliminate coding; it's just another evolution in how we express specifications.
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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
View from my home as the #EatonFire moves up the San Gabriel Mountains.
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Sarah Reisman @reiswoman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Thanks to those who’ve reached out the last few days. I am grateful that my family and home are safe. Many of my friends and colleagues have lost homes. If you want to help Caltech/JPL faculty/students/staff, a relief fund has been established: giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...
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The Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund
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