Always a pleasure to visit and stroll around the University of Tokyo.

Last week, I was deeply honored to become the first non-Chinese recipient of the Xiaomi Young Scholar Award (小米青年学者奖) at SJTU. Backed by Xiaomi, this award aims to recognize and support outstanding young professors at SJTU who have secured national-level research funding in the past year.

Stay tuned... 🎥

Final exam day for my students today 💪

Wild stuff: The ACM Digital Library now shows *by default* an AI-generated summary for open-access research papers. This comes instead of a paper's abstract and has just been rolled out without an opt-in or notification. Visible if you have a subscription: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

One of my core beliefs is that community is SO SO SO important. I might go as far to say that it's the only thing that matters, everything else positive is downstream. That's why I'm proud that, in times of crisis, so many of our community members & institutions have stepped up

Unfortunately it appears much of the academic community has reconstituted itself on LinkedIn

Check out my poster today (Thurs) at 11am--2pm session. Exhibit Hall C,D,E Poster Location: #602 "Fisher meets Feynman: score-based variational inference with a product of experts" (NeurIPS spotlight) with Robert Gower, David Blei, and Lawrence Saul @flatironinstitute.org #NeurIPS2025

✨ #NeurIPS2025 paper: Scalable Feature Learning on Huge Knowledge Graphs for Downstream Machine Learning Combining contrastive learning and message passing markedly improves features created from embedding graphs, scalable to huge graphs. It taught us a lot on graph feature learning 👇 1/10

🧠 How do neurons encode information? We know HOW MUCH, but what about WHAT information they encode? Our new work uses diffusion models to decompose neural information down to individual stimuli & features! 🎯Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025 🌟📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11309

#NeurIPS2025 is just a few days away! Don’t miss Rebecca Salganik’s presentation of MusicSem, our new dataset of musical descriptions on Reddit capturing musical semantics, at the AI4Music workshop: aiformusicworkshop.github.io

Teaching and engaging with students has been the most fulfilling aspect of my return to academia. This month was particularly special, as I had the pleasure of presenting our SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology to high school students! 🎓🇨🇳🇫🇷 More details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📢🚨Folks, you can only submit 25 papers this year to CVPR (25 submissions per author cap). So, please plan accordingly.

It was a pleasure to speak at our Physical AI seminar, last week at the SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology in Shanghai 🇨🇳🇫🇷

What if we did a single run and declared victory

EARL@RecSys2025 organizing team!

Even on Friday afternoon, the last stretch of the #RecSys2025 conference, Hugues Bouchard packed the room with his talk on audiobook retrievability at Spotify… the Best Paper Award at the #EARL2025 workshop! Congratulations! 🎉 @recsys.bsky.social @spotify.com

Wei-Wei Du (Sony) kicks-off the #EARL2025 workshop in room D3! @recsys.bsky.social #RecSys2025

Just made it to beautiful Prague for #RecSys2025! 🇨🇿 I'll be honored to host the #EARL Workshop on Evaluating and Applying Recommender Systems with LLMs. We've put together an exciting program, including two invited talks and no fewer than 18 papers. Take a look: www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...

With the use of LLMs to review papers in some confs, it'll no longer even be clear a (published!) paper will be read by anyone else than the authors. With the use of LLMs to write papers, it'll not even be clear they'll be read by them. (The CVs padded with these "papers" will not be read either)

9月23日新加坡交流会，欢迎老师们推荐 ！ Join our 2025 Young Scholars Talent Recruitment Seminar in Singapore next week. Looking for: tenure-track assistant professors, tenure-track associate professors, tenured professors. More information: speit.sjtu.edu.cn/en/about/new...

Looking for 1–2 Portuguese–English speaking medical doctors, nurses, or senior medical students for paid medical annotation work. This is part of a multilingual medical QA study led by researchers from the University of Tokyo. Feel free to reach out or share!

The Sony AI Game AI team has reinforcement learning internships opens for 2026! It is remote for people in the US & Canada, mixed remote/onsite in Europe (onsite in Zurich), and onsite in Tokyo. If you want to work on RL with cool applications, sign up! ai.sony/joinus/job-r...

Peer review? Going great. #NeurIPS2025

Do not miss our paper "Exploring Large Action Sets with Hyperspherical Embeddings using von Mises-Fisher Sampling" this week at #ICML2025! Paper - arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00518 Code - github.com/deezer/vMF-e... ICML page - icml.cc/virtual/2025... 新闻稿（中文）- mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5...

The submission deadline for the EARL workshop at #RecSys2025 is coming up this week!

Someone asked me today how to get better at scientific writing. I'm not the best person to ask because I find my own writing very inadequate! But the tips I thought of were: 1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them. (1/n)

News of the day! 🎸 Our project: "MusicSem: A Dataset of Music Descriptions on Reddit Capturing Musical Semantics" led by Rebecca Salganik with many colleagues from Univ of Rochester, National Univ of Singapore, Singapore Management Univ, will be presented as a demo at #ISMIR2025 in South Korea 🇰🇷

We’ve launched the Call for Papers for our #RecSys2025 workshop on Evaluating and Applying Recommender Systems with Large Language Models #EARL2025! 🧑‍💻 Website: earl-workshop.github.io An exciting program ahead. Looking forward to your submissions! #RecSys #LLM

Register at PAISS 1-5 Sept 2025 @inria_grenoble with very talented speakers this year 🙂 paiss.inria.fr cc @mvladimirova.bsky.social

Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social Highlights ⬇

We’re in! 🔥 See you at #ICML2025!

I’m in Sydney this week! 🇦🇺 Excited to attend #WWW2025, the 2025 ACM Web Conference. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting our paper, “To Share or Not to Share: Investigating Weight Sharing in Variational Graph Autoencoders,” co-authored with Jiaying Xu. #WebConf2025 #GraphML

Link to the video: youtu.be/nLGBTMfTvr8?...

📢📢 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!

Tomorrow at 10am-12:30, we present our work on "Understanding Virtual Nodes: Oversquashing and Node Heterogeneity" at #ICLR2025 Poster Session 3 (#179). This was a very nice collaboration with @joshsouthern.bsky.social , Francesco Di Giovanni and @mmbronstein.bsky.social!

Happening this Monday, April 28 👇

Will you be at #ICLR2025 in Singapore this week? 🇸🇬 Sakana AI is presenting several works at the conference. Come chat with our researchers! 🐙🐟🐠🐡 🧵 Scroll down this thread to see our list of presentations 👇

The MuRS workshop is back! We’re excited to announce that the 3rd Music Recommender Systems Workshop (MuRS) will be part of the ACM RecSys 2025 Conference (@recsys.bsky.social). Stay tuned for updates: sites.google.com/view/murs-2025

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐒𝐲𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭! ✨ Thrilled to organize the 2nd #EARL Workshop on Evaluating & Applying Recommender Systems with #LLMs, together with an amazing team led by Irene Li from the University of Tokyo. Happening this September in Prague 🇨🇿 during #RecSys2025. More details soon! @recsys.bsky.social

Yay! :) #beyondrecsys2025 is happening at #recsys2025. @christinebauer.bsky.social @evazangerle.bsky.social @recsys.bsky.social Website and more info coming

Attending #ICLR2025 in Singapore? Prof. Tristan Cazenaze @univdauphine.bsky.social will present our paper on von Mises-Fisher Sampling of GloVe Vectors at the Frontiers in Probabilistic Inference (FPI) workshop! 🔍 Joint work with Walid Bendada, Romain Hennequin, Théo Bontempelli, Thomas Bouabça.

Similar for Polytechnique, part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris: future open positions in AI for junior researchers. They come with a good starting package and research independence. Contact me by email or DM even for informal discussions.

Excited to see our paper, "Where Are the Values? A Systematic Literature Review on News Recommender Systems" (doi.org/10.1145/3654...), selected as a #TORS EIC Featured Article for 2024! Great collaboration with @kfvanes.bsky.social 🚀📚 #ACMTORS #RecSys #News #vales #EXDIGIT #PLUS #UniSbg

🎥 Great to see #RecSys2023 & #RecSys2024 videos on YouTube! Featuring talks from co-authors on our joint papers: ➡️ youtu.be/KdbWVC7WUZc?... by K. Matrosova on local music ➡️ youtu.be/QM74fPw0WVA?... by V. Tran on Transformers & ACT-R ➡️ youtu.be/0HZhK6WcWfc?... by W. Bendada on track mix at Deezer

Premiere matinale ! 😀 www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

You publish papers in statistics journals and you're proud of them? But, when your friends ask "are you coming to AISTATS with us?", you feel sad and you regret not to submit papers to conferences? Well, this message is for you! There is now a Journal-to-conference track at #AISTATS2025!

Some research update! Happy to share that our #GraphML paper: "To Share or Not to Share: Investigating Weight Sharing in Variational Graph Autoencoders" co-authored with Jiaying Xu, has been accepted for presentation at the ACM Web Conference #WWW2025! 🥳 Paper online soon. See you in Sydney!

Happy Monday! 🎶 Pleased to share a new paper on Generating Personalized Playlists from Text, authored by my former colleagues and friends at Deezer. 📄 Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2501.05894 The paper is set for an industry presentation at #ECIR2025. #GenAI #Music #RecSys #MIR