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Multiple readings ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2026 Markets & investment · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Signal 11h ago
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Rethinking Video Autoencoders for Interactive World Models

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Pierre Alquier David Picard

“🚨 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…”

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New AI field signal Resource 12h ago
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ELLIS UnConference AI research event

ELLIS UnConference

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ELLIS David Picard Oliver Lemon

“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…”

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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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Gilles Louppe David Picard

“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)”

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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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ELLIS David Picard

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

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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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ELLIS David Picard Judith Abécassis UKP Lab Oisin Mac Aodha
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Markets & investment

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“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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“🚨 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...”

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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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Christian Wolf David Picard

“🚨 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…”

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PhD social RL agroecological transition posting

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

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ELLIS David Picard

“🏹 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”

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3 experts · 5 posts · 3d ago
Clément Canonne David Picard A. Feder Cooper
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Clément Canonne: One solution: normalize desk-rejections. After a fast first assessment, papers are either desk-rejected, or go to full review. The current conf peer-review system has desk rejects as the exception,…
Clément Canonne: It does sting to get a desk rejection after one week. What else does? Waiting 4+ months for the same rejection, with a 2-line review (or, worse, an entirely AI-generated one). If you're not going t…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 3d ago
Mark Riedl David Picard David Marx
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Mark Riedl: Reporter: OpenAI is a true champion of equity and democratization, with new results on low-resource languages… hold on, I’m getting an update… *holds finger to ear* COBOL. They mean COBOL.
David Picard: They're listening to their highest paying tier consumers who are mostly... *checks notes*... boomers??
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