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Established AI research Resource 3d ago
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ELLIS PhD program 2026 applications open

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2026

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Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Funding schemes: ELLIS - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems 31 October 2026 ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics 27 November 2026 www.cdt-d2air.uk/apply Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing 30…”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“🚨 Apply now for the #ELLISPhD Program! 🎓 Work with leading AI/ML researchers across Europe, with exchange visits & joint supervision. The application deadline is 31 Oct. Get all info & apply now at ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...”

New AI field signal Resource 13h ago
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ELLIS UnConference AI research event

ELLIS UnConference

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“ELLIS UnConference 2026 - 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗟: Discover the sessions on Neural Representations and Probabilistic ML. 🔎 Sessions: https://bit.ly/4dr7xUb ❗ Register: https://bit.ly/3TOh2WU 📅 ELLIS UnConference - 8 December in Paris, the day before @neuripseurope.bs…”

New AI field signal Signal 11h ago
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Rethinking Video Autoencoders for Interactive World Models

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“🚨 New work with Adrien Ramanana, @nicolasdufour.bsky.social, Yutong Bai and Patrick Pérez collab @kyutai-labs.bsky.social CADRE: Rethinking Video Autoencoders for Interactive World Models We investigate what makes a good world model codec 📜 arxiv.org/abs/26…”

Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
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Dino Forcing Flow Models: Do not denoise what you can predict

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“🚨 New preprint: "Dino Forcing Flow Models: Do not denoise what you can predict" @arrijitghosh.bsky.social @lucasdegeorge.bsky.social P. Couairon, A.A. Efros, @vickykalogeiton.bsky.social and me 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2610.11751 🖥️ arijit-hub.github.io/projects/din…”

Developing AI research Research 1d ago
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predict-project-renoise diffusion hard constraints paper

Predict-Project-Renoise: Sampling Diffusion Models under Hard Constraints

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“Today my PhD student (for one last day) @orochman.bsky.social is defending his thesis on neural emulators. Check out his latest paper on sampling diffusion models under hard constraints arxiv.org/abs/2601.21033 (NeurIPS 2026)”

Established Models & releases Signal 17d ago
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Procedural Core: A Compact Recurrent Initialization for Vision Transformers

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“Procedural Core: A Compact Recurrent Initialization for Vision Transformers By @damienteney.bsky.social 's group Idea: train a ViT with parameters tied over layers (="recurrent ViT") on abstract procedurally data. Then initialise models of ANY arch (!) with…”

Developing AI research Resource 1d ago
MICCAI PhD positions structure-aware ML announced

Two PhD Positions in Structure-Aware Machine Learning - MICCAI Society

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“🏹 Job alert: 2 PhD Researchers in Machine Learning & Medical Image Analysis at Scads AI, Leipzig University 📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪 ⏰ 31 December 🔗 https://bit.ly/4z2MSyk”

Established Agents & robotics Resource 3d ago
PhD social RL agroecological transition posting

Fully-funded PhD on Social Reinforcement Learning to Support the Agroecological Transition

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“🏹 Job alert: Fully-funded PhD on Social Reinforcement Learning to Support the Agroecological Transition 📍 Toulouse 🇫🇷 ⏰ 23 November 🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2026-11-23-fully-funded-phd-on-social-reinforcement-learning-to-support-the”

Established AI research Research 9d ago
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RNN homunculus long-term memory gating paper

The RNN Homunculus: Learning to Gate Long-Term Memory

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“I really enjoy finding gaps in our understanding of text-book deep learning. The RNN Homunculus: Long-range input vanishes RNN gradients. Gates (GRU, LSTM) help, but gates are themselves an RNN. Ie: gates are not sufficient. We need short-range data to lear…”

Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago
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Back into Plato's Cave: Examining Cross-modal Representational Convergence at Scale

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“These results surprised me. There's more to do to fully understand which structures align! Here are some great readings on other perspectives: * local relational: arxiv.org/abs/2602.14486 * coarse-grained: arxiv.org/abs/2604.18572 * global relational: arxiv…”

Established AI research Resource 8d ago
ELLIS PhD 2026 applications open

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2026

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“🎓 Work with TWO leading European researchers across borders while you achieve your research and career goals in the #ELLISPhD Program! Check out the value Dominika Długosz sees in joint supervision. Apply now to start your PhD in 2027 at https://bit.ly/3TrH…”

Established Evaluation & benchmarks Research 17d ago
⚡ 10 h early
hyperparameter tuning on test set paper

On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set

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“In addition to the research findings, this is the type of research I really enjoyed doing 😊 "On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set" arxiv.org/abs/2610.05902”

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jvgemert.bsky.social: In addition to the research findings, this is the type of research I really enjoyed doing 😊 "On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set" arxiv.org/abs/2610.05902
David Picard: In addition to the research findings, this is the type of research I really enjoyed doing 😊 "On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set" arxiv.org/abs/2610.05902
David Picard: Joining the heresy, I see... But in all seriousness, I think the observation you make that test-tuning is just a uniform boost (fig 3) is an important lesson of deep learning (interpolation thresho…
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Established AI research Research 7d ago
weight averaging code RL frontiers paper

Extrapolative Weight Averaging Reveals Correctness-Efficiency Frontiers in Code RL

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“Funnily enough, I had this discussion with Benjamin Negrevergne earlier this week (during his habilitation, amazing talk btw) on one of his recent paper with people from Meta: arxiv.org/abs/2605.28751 In this, they show a trade-off between precision and rec…”

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9 experts · 12 posts · 18d ago
David Pfau: An academic collaborator just told me his students aren't using LLMs because he can't afford even the low tier monthly subscription for everyone. I'm not sure the folks making $Xm/yr at frontier la…
ae: An academic collaborator just told me his students aren't using LLMs because he can't afford even the low tier monthly subscription for everyone. I'm not sure the folks making $Xm/yr at frontier la…
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