💫 I am recruiting exceptional PhD students & postdocs for my lab @tticconnect.bsky.social this year! Application details: www.ttic.edu/studentappli...

TTIC is hiring tenure track faculty! Come join us in Chicago! I am sadly not at ICCV but Greg Shakhnarovich (Vision) home.ttic.edu/~gregory/ and Matt Walter (Robotics) home.ttic.edu/~mwalter/ are around and would be happy to chat.

@alisongopnik.bsky.social's talk happening now!! Ballroom B @iccv.bsky.social

Join us TODAY for the 3rd Perception Test Challenge perception-test-challenge.github.io @iccv.bsky.social Ballroom B, Full day Amazing lineup of speakers: Ali Farhadi, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Phlipp Krahenbul, @phillipisola.bsky.social

TODAY! Artificial Social Intelligence Workshop @iccv.bsky.social Room 317B, Full day Social reasoning, multimodality, and embodiment! Speakers: Evonne Ng, @tianminshu.bsky.social @hyunwoo-kim.bsky.social, @diyiyang.bsky.social ang.bsky.social, @hokulabs.bsky.social, @michael-j-black.bsky.social

KiVA (Kid-inspired Visual Analogies) Challenge Test Phase is NOW LIVE (Sep 1–Oct 6)! Can your model reason like a child? Can it beat adults? 🥇 $1,000 🥈 $500 for 2 runner-ups Join/submit: t.co/zQwA1Nmohy And join us at @iccv.bsky.social in Hawaii!! 🌴

I am giving a talk this morning at 10:40AM PST as part of the #ICML2025 Workshop on Assessing World Models. Title: "What Do Vision and Vision-Language Models Really Know About the World?" Come join us! www.worldmodelworkshop.org

Join us for 3rd Perception Test Workshop &Challenge @iccv.bsky.social #iccv2025 *NEW* this year: - 3 unified tracks - novel interpretability track - guest tracks: KiVA and Physics-IQ - 4 world-class speakers (see pic) Up to 50K in prizes sponsored by Google DeepMind 🧵 for details [1/4]

🧠How “old” is your model? Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults. 🏆 Prizes: 🥇$1K to the top model 🥈🥉$500 📅 Deadline: 10/7/25 🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io @iccv.bsky.social

When it comes to goal-directed work, people prioritize controllable variability (a.k.a. empowerment!). But in undirected play, we shift toward embracing pure variability. Check out our forthcoming Phil. Trans. A (2026) paper!

Check out our new paper at #ICLR2025, where we show that multi-task neural decoding is both possible and beneficial. As well, the latents of a model trained only on neural activity capture information about brain regions and cell-types. Step-by-step, we're gonna scale up folks! 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

🎧 Listen to the podcast! Professor @alisongopnik.bsky.social and @newamerica.org CEO @slaughteram.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about how rethinking our approach to caregiving and how we support care providers could lead to a better society. 🔗:

Think LMMs can reason like a 3-year-old? Think again! Our Kid-Inspired Visual Analogies benchmark reveals where young children still win: ey242.github.io/kiva.github.... Catch our #ICLR2025 poster today to see where models still fall short! Thurs. April 24 3-5:30 pm Halls 3 + 2B #312

Neuroscience is finally taking more and more baby steps towards running experiments at scale!

In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Welcome to TTIC!! We are so excited to have you join us!!

We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io

This shows the importance of expressive (rather than functional) gesture really nicely in a beautiful non-anthropomorphic robot design machinelearning.apple.com/research/ele...

Did Italo Calvino discover bag of words and topic models in 1979?

"That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what. But it doesn't have to. Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen." www.science.org/content/blog...

Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/

New paper! A self-supervised object-centric 2.1D image representation using 3D Gaussians, extending MAE with a Gaussian bottleneck. While Gaussian splatting has been used for single-scene reconstruction, we’re the first to apply it to image representation learning! brjathu.github.io/gmae/.

Can video MAE scale? Yes. Do you need language to scale video models? No. arxiv.org/abs/2412.15212 Great rigorous benchmarking from my colleagues at Google DeepMind.

This is a fantastic example of just how different machine's perception of perception still is from human perception...

Advice for beginning grad students: The Secret of Happiness Story [Sufi, Turkey]. Nasrudin is known as much for his wisdom as his foolishness, and many are those who have sought out his teaching. One devotee tracked him down in the marketplace. 1/3

@ari-holtzman.bsky.social this is for you!

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Matt Walter is my new favorite roboticist! In a couple of minutes he is giving a talk about what he has been up to this year. Streaming here via Panopto: buff.ly/3ObJHhX

I am recruiting exceptional PhD students & postdocs with an adventurous soul for my 💫new TTIC AI lab💫! We aim to understand intelligence, one pixel at a time, inspired by psychology, neuroscience, language, robotics, and the arts. Apply: www.ttic.edu/studentappli... sites.google.com/ttic.edu/ope...

Excited to give a talk at TTIC this morning! Friday, November 8th at 12:30pm CT: "Behavior prediction for interacting entities from video observations." Please join us in Room 530, or stream via Panopto: buff.ly/4ft8pGf

Hello Bluesky!!! Apologies in advance... I am going to try an experiment to import all my tweets from twitter... It may create some one-time spam... I should have done this before following folks but I just realized this... 🫣 I will report back if successful! www.wikihow.com/Import-Twitt...