Introducing 🥚EGGROLL 🥚(Evolution Guided General Optimization via Low-rank Learning)! 🚀 Scaling backprop-free Evolution Strategies (ES) for billion-parameter models at large population sizes ⚡100x Training Throughput 🎯Fast Convergence 🔢Pure Int8 Pretraining of RNN LLMs

Late to the party (since I just took some time to spend with our two little ones) but luckily good science is timeless ;)

PQN puts Q-learning back on the map and now comes with a blog post + Colab demo! Also, congrats to the team for the spotlight at #ICLR2025

My group @FLAIR_Ox is recruiting a postdoc and looking for someone who can get started by the end of April. Deadline to apply is in one week (!), 19th of March at noon, so please help spread the word: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

That's the first time that I see a video by chess.com cited in an accepted ICLR paper, in particular on handshakes vs. fist bumps during a chess competition ... By Oxford, @jfoerst.bsky.social Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=wFg... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fS7... @danielrensch.chess.com

@jfoerst.bsky.social take on how the community sees the ARC Challenge and how we evaluate models and use benchmarks nowadays is 👌. #more_science_less_hype (please). PS: Amazing discussion and good brain food, as usual with MLST.

Second #runconference @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 ! @jfoerst.bsky.social @ferranalet.bsky.social @adamjelley.bsky.social @enjeeneer.io Same deal for tomorrow: 7am at goo.gl/maps/8Z8eMrd... Join us!

🚨 PSA 🚨 Deadline to apply for your dream Phd in ML @FLAIR_Ox is coming up on the 2nd of December AOE. We work on compute-only scaling of LLMs, (meta/multi-agent) RL at the Hyperscale, Human-AI coordination, opponent-shaping for vaccine design, GenAI for finance & much more..

wth did we not go to an open-source and non-for profit alternative? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

Hello BlueSky! Joao Henriques (joao.science) and I are hiring a fully funded PhD student (UK/international) for the FAIR-Oxford program. The student will spend 50% of their time @UniofOxford and 50% @MetaAI (FAIR) in London, while completing a DPhil (Oxford PhD). Deadline: 2nd of Dec AOE!!

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