Eric Xing, the first author on this paper and a PhD student with @jacobsn.bsky.social at WashU, doesn't seem to be on bsky. But he's a rockstar who's been killing it finding new ways to attack the sorts of very hard retrieval problems that our labs care about (like TraffickCam!).

Super happy that QuARI: Query Adaptive Retrieval Improvement was accepted at #NeurIPS2025. You can significantly boost retrieval performance for very hard retrieval tasks by learning query-specific transformations of your encoders. w/ @jacobsn.bsky.social @pless.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2505.21647

Oh ffs #AllforCITY. WE WANT TOTS!

The best right back at the club, who specializes in "movement in behind," has played zero (0) minutes in the last 5 games. #AllForCITY has 3/15 points in that span. -2 in goals, -2.7 in xG.

This one called for an EMERGENCY @stlcitypress.bsky.social Wednesday Minute. open.spotify.com/episode/2KGN... #AllForCITY

Is Danny Röhl #AllforCITY bound?!?! If so, you clearly should be listening to the only CITY podcast that has had a dedicated “Wednesday Minute” since its inception, @stlcitypress.bsky.social!

Annnnd I’m angry again.

When the opponent’s coach apologizes for winning, you know you have a shit product. MLS and PRO need to improve dramatically. Embarrassing stuff

Full stop, that was garbage. Absolutely ridiculous for the VAR check to even occur at 110’ much less it be called a penalty on Joyner and @stlcitysc.com. This is an embarrassment for MLS.

I have found ACing for NeurIPS this year a miserable experience and I've been struggling to articulate why without basically whining about it being too much work (although.....true. My god the amount of words I'm reading...). But I think I've figured out part of my dislike for this process.

Bürki comes off his line early and Nashville will retake. Honestly, stutter steps should be banned. Or if they're allowed, let the 'keeper come off the line as soon as the taker hesitates. They're already at a massive disadvantage as-is. Why compound it?

A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon. Most people can name at least one (Neil Armstrong). Some can name two (Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin). Few can name more than that. Jim Lovell never walked on the Moon, but everyone knows him as the guy who got his crew back safely. Hell of a legacy. RIP.

Probably had to happen but still sad. Gotta always remember his amazing bicycle kick: youtube.com/shorts/K9_Jc...

As a #NeurIPS AC I did a little stat. Paper reviews+responses in my batch contain 515k characters and 75k words. This is without including papers themselves or authors/reviewers discussions. So please be nice to your AC, we are doing our best. Also I miss the one page PDF response of old ICML.

What a sky over Energizer Park for the #AllforCITY friendly vs Aston Villa.

Ours is a sad, sad existence #AllforCITY (but it hurts)

Everytime you think think St. Louis might be turning a corner they walk into something catastrophic

I need another CITY 2 vs #allforcity scrimmage, I’m trying to see something.

Fun fact: Johnny Russell, Roman Burki and I were all born the same year. Burki is clearly the youngest looking of our bunch but I do think I’m a slightly younger looking 35 than Russell. #allforcity (This is perhaps the only fun fact of this game, which is generally not super fun.)

If you’d like to hear me rant about this, check out the most recent episode of @stlcitypress.bsky.social!

Absolutely unconscionable that the #AllforCITY staff let Baumgartl go back on there. @mattbakerstl.bsky.social please please please ask about this in the post game press conference? Durkin all over again.

It was a privilege to organize this year’s @cvprconference.bsky.social Doctoral Consortium. The students are rockstars, and there were such great conversations with amazing mentors from academia and industry. Huge thanks to the National Science Foundation for their continuous support for the event.

Very excited that my NSF CAREER proposal was funded! In this project, we will develop image search systems that are more readily aligned with expert knowledge. The capabilities will be incorporated into TraffickCam, our search system deployed at NCMEC for recognizing where victims are photographed.

My absolute favorite follow — @offsidemodeling.bsky.social — is posting again!

I can guarantee these are NOT the post-Olof takes you’ll get from any other #AllforCITY pod. If you’re looking for absolutely no clear conclusions, existential angst, gossip, vamping on new and questionable statistics, “female emotions”, and misnaming of the new coach, boy have I got a pod for you.

The #WACV2026 Call for Papers is live at wacv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...! First round paper registration is coming up on July 11th, with the submission deadline on July 18th (all deadlines are 23:59 AoE).

Lol

Damn. Oh well, let’s try the same things again next time. #AllforCITY

Had a ton of fun with the kiddos at the @stlcitysc.com Open Cup match against @unionomaha.bsky.social. And in the last few minutes, we actually played some compelling offense! More of that please!

The pricing for tomorrow night’s #AllforCITY Open Cup match is just infuriating given the current product on the field, that it’s general admission, that it’s against Union Omaha, that it’s a midweek game, etc etc.

Had to say goodbye to my best old girl today. Love you Gigi. 💔☹️

#AllforCITY sigh.

@mattbakerstl.bsky.social @tomtimm.bsky.social @hornekerjustin.bsky.social I beg someone to ask what was on the note

It’s possible my #handsoff protest sign was a bit of a deep cut.

I’d like to title this picture “oh fuck NOW WHAT?!?” #AllforCITY

I’m a fan of Timo Baumgartl, striker. #AllforCITY

@stlcitysc.com fyi jersey contest form didn’t work in stadium

"We really need to jump start the offense" Starts 5 CB's. #AllForCITY

🎶He’s in our heeeead in our heeeeeead Bradley Bradley 🎶 #AllforCITY

People will second guess this because of the international break but Bradley Carnell was 100000% always going to start Indiana Vassilev in this game. (You can hear us debate this on @stlcitypress.bsky.social in the 45 minutes before the game.)

Democrats Vow Not To Give Up Hopelessness

I just think you present Roman Bürki with a blank check and figure the rest out later #allforcity

It feels like the population of people that are interested in “soccer parallels to excel” is probably just “the hosts of our podcast”…

Look, I understand that the league wants the game to be positive because it's the home opener for SDFC but the fact that "the chant" happened all game and wasn't addressed until 88min in-stadium and not at all on TV is a very bad precedent.

@taylortwellman.bsky.social shame on you for not even mentioning the homophobic chants in the stadium. San Diego was threatened over their own PA system that if their fans didn’t stop the game could be stopped or forfeit and you all didn’t mention it once.

Our pod is always chaotic and amusing, but I think this week it was also really good??? (Especially if you enjoy hosts yelling at each other that they’re heartless because of their views on late game substitution strategies….) #allforcity

Not giving Celio any minutes is shitty and a disservice to both him and the fans. #allforcity

This one is a heartbreaker (also…possible I reveal the depths of my Star Wars geekdom…)