The International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems #IMPRS is currently accepting PhD applications! Join our elite doctoral program to conduct research in machine learning, robotics, HCI, computer vision, and related fields. imprs.is.mpg.de/application Deadline: Nov. 16, 2025

There is also the converse of paper that just take an existing method, use massive engineering to have it beat SOTA, and never credit the original paper.

💥 DeepInverse v0.3.5 is out! 💥 docs: deepinv.github.io/deepinv/ github: github.com/deepinv/deep...

Working on representation learning for Earth Observation? Come join the discussion at the EurIPS workshop "REO: Advances in Representation Learning for Earth Observation" Call for papers deadline: October 15, AoE Workshop site: sites.google.com/view/reoeurips @euripsconf.bsky.social @esa.int

Pétition "non à #ChatControl" à signer sur le site de l'assemblée nationale. petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

We are starting with @sattlertorsten.bsky.social . You still can book a teleport to Prague :)

🚨Updated: "How far can we go with ImageNet for Text-to-Image generation?" TL;DR: train a text2image model from scratch on ImageNet only and beat SDXL. Paper, code, data available! Reproducible science FTW! 🧵👇 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.21318 💻 github.com/lucasdegeorg... 💽 huggingface.co/arijitghosh/...

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Germany's justice ministry held firm and killed EU chat control (for now): "Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion." Admirably concise and direct. German in the best possible way.

Very proud of our recent work, kudos to the team! Read @davidpicard.bsky.social’s excellent post for more details or the paper arxiv.org/pdf/2502.21318

🚨Updated: "How far can we go with ImageNet for Text-to-Image generation?" TL;DR: train a text2image model from scratch on ImageNet only and beat SDXL. Paper, code, data available! Reproducible science FTW! 🧵👇 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.21318 💻 github.com/lucasdegeorg... 💽 huggingface.co/arijitghosh/...

To paraphrase Douglas Adams, the US had always considered it was vastly superior the EU because it had generated billionnaires like Sam Altman, Elon Musk or Marc Andreessen, and the EU had not. An the EU considered it was vastly superior to the US for exactly the same reason.

#Distinction 🏆| Charlotte Pelletier, lauréate d'une chaire #IUF, développe des méthodes d’intelligence artificielle appliquées aux séries temporelles d’images satellitaires. ➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/... 🤝 @irisa-lab.bsky.social @cnrs-bretagneloire.bsky.social

C'est l'automne 🍂🍁🍄🪾

Il y a cent ans, entre fin septembre et début octobre 1925, la barbarie fasciste tombait méthodiquement sur Florence, tuait, brûlait et bastonnait pour "purifier" dans sa "Sainte violence" anti-maçonnique l'Italie d'une part de son heritage vivant des Lumières. agone.org/les-crimes-f...

Ce simulateur de coalition est hyper intéressant. Ça permet de comprendre qu'en France, on aime pas les compromis menant à des coalitions. datan.fr/outils/coali...

« This blocks the required majority in the EU Council, derailing the plan to pass the surveillance law next week ». www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-p...

Imaginez que le gouvernement décide d'imposer à La Poste d'ouvrir tout le courrier envoyé par les Français, pour vérifier qu'il n'y ait pas de contenu pédocriminel. C'est pourtant ce que 🇪🇺 s'apprête potentiellement à faire, en disant "mais ne vous inquiétez pas on refermera juste après".

Another great event for @valeoai.bsky.social team: a PhD defense of Corentin Sautier. His thesis «Learning Actionable LiDAR Representations w/o Annotations» covers the papers BEVContrast (learning self-sup LiDAR features), SLidR, ScaLR (distillation), UNIT and Alpine (solving tasks w/o labels).

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to researchers who have nothing to do with CS? Heresy!

One of the lessons of the 2008 crisis should have been: "if you're too big to fail, you should be too big to exist".

accidentally caused Nano Banana's system prompt to leak, but in a fun way

The Visual Recognition Group at CTU in Prague organizes the 50th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium with Torsten Sattler, Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Vicky Kalogeiton, Spyros Gidaris, Anna Kukleva, and Lukas Neumann. On Thursday Oct 9, 11:00-17:00. cmp.felk.cvut.cz/colloquium/

Vous allez voir qu'il va manquer un poêlon ou une spatule et que ça va quand même finir en bagarre...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Familiar names among #ICCV2025 Outstanding Reviewers from our team 😇 Antoine Guédon @antoine-guedon.bsky.social Sinisa Stekovic Renaud Marlet 👏 @iccv.bsky.social iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...

Went to Carolina Revidiva in Uppsala to see Carta Marina (my thesis cover) in person

Wow! Finally OT done on the entire training set to train a diffusion model!

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

#CNRSnews 📰 Energy transition is a myth, based on the misconception that energy sources were replaced by “cleaner” alternatives over the past 200 years. Carbon emissions have actually increased, hence the need for better informed strategies to fight global warming news.cnrs.fr/articles/the...

35 Jahren! 😮 Fühlt sich immer noch an wie Vorgestern...

As we are getting near the gray part of the year, here are the last flowers of the garden.

Where I rant on scale and current trends in research like a broken phonograph 😅

🚨 New paper out! "VisualOverload: Probing Visual Understanding of VLMs in Really Dense Scenes" 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.25339 We test 37 VLMs on 2,700+ VQA questions about dense scenes. Findings: even top models fumble badly—<20% on the hardest split and key failure modes in counting, OCR & consistency.

@belongielab.org welcomes applications for a PhD position in CV/ML (fine-grained analysis of multimodal data, 2D/3D generative models, misinformation detection, self-supervised learning) / Apply though the ELLIS portal / Deadline 31-Oct-2025

Just found out that yet another paper on North African Arabizi didn't find our work worth citing. they even wrote "No Arabizi-specific metric or resource exists for our dialect selection ». We were the first to release an annotated dataset for this dialect, published at acl and shit. Discouraging.

7. How to write consistently boring scientific literature. “Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications” Erik Ursin, fish biologist Thanks @fattebertj.bsky.social Open Access nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Applications are open for research fellows and senior visitors for the Fall 2026 programs on Spectral Theory Beyond Graphs, and on Pseudorandomness and High-Dimensional Expansion. simons.berkeley.edu/research-fel... simons.berkeley.edu/long-term-vi...

Barroso-Laguna et al., "A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image Features" When contexting your feed-forward 3D point-map estimator, don't use full image pairs -- just randomly subsample! -> fast compute, more images.

Congratulations to our lab colleagues who have been named Outstanding Reviewers at #ICCV2025 👏 Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social Anh-Quan Cao @anhquancao.bsky.social Renaud Marlet Eloi Zablocki @eloizablocki.bsky.social @iccv.bsky.social iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...

#ChooseEurope for Science is live! With €22.5 million under #MSCA, we’re funding organisations to: 🔬 Host postdoctoral researchers in all fields 🔬 Offer stable jobs and great working conditions 🔬 Create long-term career prospects Europe is where science thrives. More → link.europa.eu/6JhtHp

Really? A fine-tuner for Llama 3? You don't have to be an AI doomer to think Murati has pulled off one of the most impressive cash grabs in recent Silicon Valley history.

Getting close to the beautiful fall colors right outside the lab 🍁🍂

Got a new book for my birthday! 🥰 (Obviously, I'm turning 34 if you're asking)

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Tfw

📢 Come be my colleague: the School of Computer Science at 🇦🇺 #USyd is hiring! Multiple tenure-track-equivalent positions across the board (including theory!), but with a specific focus on Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Digital Systems, and ML/AI. ⏰ Dec 1 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Postdoc openings at IRIF (Institute for Research in Foundations of Computer Science) in Paris, all areas of theoretical computer science: algorithms, complexity, quantum computing... I have very fond memories of my Masters in TCS there. Great place, great people! cstheory-jobs.org/2025/09/30/p...