A couple of days ago I have subscribed to Disney+ to watch Alien Earth and then was a bit worried about my bad timing and on what kind of signal that would send. I am so glad that lots of other people have stepped up to compensate my move. It seems to have worked.

Tendency: render non-visual data/parameters into images fed to neural networks. Joint angles: GENIMA genima-robot.github.io Trajectories: VINT arxiv.org/abs/2306.14846 Object pose: MFOS arxiv.org/abs/2310.01897 Waypoints: PIVOT arxiv.org/abs/2402.07872 (Repost+update of a tweet from 2024)

The CVPR 2026 deadline has finally been confirmed: Abstract: Nov 6th AoE Paper: Nov 13th AoE Location: Denver, USA cvpr.thecvf.com

Distill VGGT (24 layers) into a lightweight 4-layer version and then use it as a visual encoder in a diffusion policy for manipulation. By An Dinh Vuong, Minh Nhat Vu, Ian Reid. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15880

#NeurIPS2025: I am very happy that we have two choices this year, Mexico 🇲🇽 and the US 🇺🇸. This is GREAT 👏. The cherry on top would have been if Copenhagen 🇩🇰 would have also been a real alternative, instead of an "additional venue" only which still requires attendance in one of the primary ones.

Oh come on, a #NeurIPS rejection based on sensible, well-argumented reviews which show an understanding of the paper and its limitations? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO COMPLAIN NOW?

#NeurIPS2025 results are out. Our single submission got accepted 🥳 Will be on arxiv soon. It's a new sequence model and memory for robotics.

If you are an "Alien" Fan, I recommend "Alien: Earth". It's great. The design is close to the first movie, up to some music themes. The writing is awesome (love the kid-adults' communication), the encounters w. the xenomorph phenomenal. I saw 3 episodes for the moment. Building better worlds!

"Like all good stories, the tale of EurIPS begins in the kitchen…"

French SNCF/railways: you can be "technically correct" but still wrong. I received your email that my train of 7:16am was cancelled only after the train left the station at 7:16am, sorry about that. It turns out that I was on the train of 6:46am which left 30min late, on the same track, same dest.

AAAI AI reviews: there is a possibility for a debate between @sebastiendestercke.bsky.social and @mcognetta.bsky.social 😀 bsky.app/profile/mcog... bsky.app/profile/seba...

How to name your method: a comprehensive flow chart

"SpatialVID: A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Spatial Annotations" >7000h of video data, annotated with spatial meta-data estimated by Mega-SAM arxiv.org/abs/2509.09676

Selling printer cartridges (129€ for all four colours, words are failing me!!) is extortion and Mafia behaviour. Prove me wrong. (Yes, I know what vendor lock-in is).

I don't know what to think of this and what this means for the field.

Bookmarks on Bluesky, finally !!

What were they thinking?

My take on LLMs: I am actually really happy with what they currently achieve and I never expected more. But that's because I am user and not an investor trying to my 1T$ back.

The French team won games 2, 3, 4. Back to back to back wins. People went wild.

What apparel could be better for a Fortnite event than my custom made Commodore 64 T-shirt... I guess absolutely nobody in the audience recognized that.

The Fortnite Global Championship takes place this weekend...... in Lyon! We have tickets for the full weekend.

French for beginners: pomme=apple; pommier=apple tree poire=pear; poirier=pear tree prune=plum; prunier=plum tree ... salade=salad; saladier = ... salade bowl 🤔 fraise=strawberry; fraisier = ... ... strawberry cake 🤯

I sense some opportunities here. S^4 = segments of segments of segments of segments

"You need to be bored". I am feeling seen. So much. I will try to change that. This summer I was driving for 10h and didn't even switch on the radio. 10h of pure thinking, or not even thinking. It's a change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQK...

Dima Damen opens the afternoon session of #PAISS2025 with a presentation on egocentric vision. At which point does an egg become an egg-shell and how do we deal with the fact that the egg-shell looks more like the "old egg" than the "new egg" in the pan now does? @dimadamen.bsky.social

#PAISS2025 continues with Yann LeCun talking about world models and why generative autoregressive models are not the future.

The 4th day of the #PAISS2025 summer school is opened by Jérôme Revaud presenting 'Data-driven 3d vision' and the DUSt3R and MASt3R family of models.

To: Reviewer 2 My name is Inigo Montoya You killed my paper Prepare to die

This! The way I explain RL to beginners (I sometimes hear stuff like "it's just supervision but given a fancy name"): Me: "Imagine you don't know how to solve a task, but you know how to evaluate if it is well done when its done. That's the objective of RL, you optimize your metric*." 1/3

I needed the visit of @dimadamen.bsky.social to learn that Grenoble actually has an area called "Oxford". She seems to have a gift to find British things even when she is not in the UK. It doesn't look like the English Oxford though.

Even Forbes, Bloomberg etc. are talking about the AI bubble every day now. The question is not when it will bust, but who will survive once the dust settles and pick up the infrastructure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyj...

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

As a motorbiker a whole movie experience can be ruined when post production goes over the scene of a BMW R1200S chase and overlays it with the sound of a screaming 4-cylinder engine 🙄

I can't* fathom why the top picture, and not the bottom picture, is the standard diagram for an autoencoder. The whole idea of an autoencoder is that you complete a round trip and seek cycle consistency—why lay out the network linearly?

TIL that Papago (the Naver translate service) was named that way after the Esperanto word for parrot (hence the logo). What a wonderful crossover, though perhaps ironic that Papago doesn't support Esperanto translation. #Korean #Esperanto

Markets seem to work like LLMs. Why aren't markets freaking out? By Paul Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

Time list of 100 people in AI Category 'Thinkers' Interesting....I guess?

Which countries are the main producers of automobiles from 1900 to 2024? Interesting, in particular when you take into account the differences in sizes of these countries ... France hat quite a run in the 30ies. Screen capture from Stats Media youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXD...

Also for @vito-research.bsky.social

#ICLR2026 PCs consider prompt injection as an ethics problem, in particular an attempt to collude with a potential malicious reviewer (using an LLM). I can't agree more. blog.iclr.cc/2025/08/26/p...

A university and an academic publisher walk into a bar. The publisher orders a pint, sells it back to the university, asks the barman to pay the bill.

HOSt3R: Keypoint-free Hand-Object 3D Reconstruction from RGB images Anilkumar Swamy, @vincentleroy.bsky.social @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social Jean-Sébastien Franco, Grégory Rogez tl;dr: DUSt3R tuned on hands-pose dataset + handcrafted 3D reconstruction system arxiv.org/abs/2508.16465

HAMSt3R: Human-Aware Multi-view Stereo 3D Reconstruction Sara Rojas, Matthieu Armando, Bernard Ghamen, @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social, @vincentleroy.bsky.social, Gregory Rogez arxiv.org/abs/2508.16433

With Dino-v3 came new ViT sizes, but I think we are not done. I propose the following extensions: ViT-quantum ViT-footnotesize ViT-T ViT-S ViT-B ViT-L ViT-H ViT-g ViT-G ViT-7B ViT-Pro ViT-Pro Max ViT-Millenium ViT-Entreprise datacenter edition ViT-Supreme Leader ViT-Ultimate Showdown Turbo 3000

NeurIPS'25: the deadline for first drafts of meta-reviews is today, to be done by ACs, roughly one month before decision release (Sept. 18th). What follows is AC/SAC discussions on papers on the decision frontier, and then oversight by PCs.

I wished this was true. Unfortunately in my domain I have seen multiple very active people even decreasing their activities here on Bsky and moving back to Twitter 😔.

This is an *insane* take for so many reasons, but it's also very wrong. First, the authors had PhDs, and second, it is factually wrong, since the paper was published at NIPS (NeurIPS) 2017.

AISTATS 2026 will be held in Tangier, Morocco. Submission DL: Sept 25th virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/... aistats.org/aistats2026

As stupid as it sounds, this is unfortunately correct. This is one of the reasons I prefer the 24h time system anytime...