New Realtime Techpocalypse article! How much wealth does Musk have? He earned $203B in 2024. If the height of Mount Everest represents this quantity, how tall would $50k stand in comparison? The answer is that $50k would amount to the size of a single flea. THAT'S IT! Short 🧵

from the memories from Rio, when with @leanderk.bsky.social and @paolomorettin.bsky.social we were on the beach wondering if to use the Best Student Paper Runner-up Award as a surfing board.

Many thanks for the best paper award at the #TPM workshop!

then on The Workshop on Causal Abstractions and Representations #CAR25 sites.google.com/view/car-25/

likely one of the best editions of #TPM ever! big thanks to @poorvagarg.bsky.social @jsleland.bsky.social @javaloyml.bsky.social @zzhe.bsky.social @lennertds.bsky.social Lingyun Yao and Christoph Staudt for organizing it and to everyone who attended it!

from the memories from Rio, when with @leanderk.bsky.social and @paolomorettin.bsky.social we were on the beach wondering if to use the Best Student Paper Runner-up Award as a surfing board.

a huge thanks to @rmassidda.it who not only flawlessly managed to update the #UAI2025 website, but also wrote an amazing pipeline (with docker!) from scratch to do so. All future publicity chairs will own Riccardo!

The faces behind the @auai.org PR machine and cameras: @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social @rmassidda.it

and to @leanderk.bsky.social @paolomorettin.bsky.social Roberto Sebastiani, @andreapasserini.bsky.social @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social for the ✨Best Student Paper Runner Up Award✨ for "A Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Layer for Algebraic Constraint Satisfaction" 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=9Uk...

congratulations to Paula Cordero Encinar, Francesca Romana Crucinio and O. Deniz Akyildiz (@odakyildiz.bsky.social‬) for winning the 🏆 Best Student Paper Award 🏆 at #UAI2025 with "Proximal Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithms" 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=rTq...

congratulations to Frédéric Koriche, Jean-Marie Lagniez and Chi Tran for winning the 🏆 Best Paper Award 🏆 at #UAI2025 for "Probabilistic Explanations for Regression Models" 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=ipn...

presentations from the oral session #1 on learning www.auai.org/uai2025/sche...

a big thanks to our sponsors! Huawei, Google, AI journal, DE Shaw & co and ‪@cnpq-oficial.bsky.social‬ and to our chairs @smaglia.bsky.social @csilviavr.bsky.social and Daniel Ratton Figueiredo

✨ our General chair Negar Kiyavash and Program chairs @csilviavr.bsky.social and @smaglia.bsky.social kicking off Day 2 ✨

First #UAI2025 keynote by Francesca Dominici (hsph.harvard.edu/profile/fran...) on """ Uncertainty in AI: Solution or Obstacle for Climate Action? """

I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this?

Enjoyed co presenting this tutorial at #uai2025 in Brazil with Yingzhen Li! Enjoyed the conference size and location. Also great company, weather, and food.

and "Modern Approximate Inference: Variational Methods and Beyond" by Diana Cai (Flatiron Institute) and Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London)

""" This is the best conference swag I've ever seen! """ @yjchoi1.bsky.social on the local coffee bag we give each participant

time for our mentoring session! where young researchers can ask more experienced ones about how to navigate academia, conferences, work in industry and more! Moderated by Eli Carrami and Isabela Albuquerque (virtual) Panel: @cassiodecampos.bsky.social @sabinasloman.bsky.social Yingzhen Li

here we go with the very first coffee break! ☕ no one can resist these delicious Brazilian snacks 🇧🇷

a nice morning crowd attending (we will release the slides in the afternoon, so also you can have an indirect look at the tutorials)

and "Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines" by ‪@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social‬ (Stanford), ‪@autreche.bsky.social‬ (MPI SS) and ‪@stratiss.bsky.social‬ (MPI SS)

time to educate the #UAI2025 crowd on "Hyperparameter Optimization and Algorithm Selection: Practical Techniques, Theory, and New Frontiers" by Dravyansh Sharma (TTIC)

a huge thank you to our amazing volunteers 💙 working relentlessly to make the conference go smooth! www.auai.org/uai2025/volu...

Welcome to Rio 🇧🇷! While we start, enjoy the sun, our local coffee swag ☕ and our upcoming five tutorials for the day (www.auai.org/uai2025/tuto...) 💙 stay tuned!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our work! If you missed it and want to know more, just drop me a message! #ICML2025

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here's my modest proposal to fix the broken system of publishing & citation hype 👇 to submit a paper, each author has to pay with a number of their citations, once paid, these citations are gone. Here is the pay list, as a percentage of their citations: - students: 5% - postdocs: 10% - profs: 15%

less than one week to go! Check our schedule comprising: 1 ❤️‍🩹mentoring session 2 🔑 keynotes 3 🧑‍🔧 workshops 5 📊 tutorials 20 🗣️ orals 229 📜 posters 👉 www.auai.org/uai2025/schedule

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this is huge! (both the poster size and its content)

still tweaking that Scholar Inbox classifier

anything to say in your defense @neuripsconf.bsky.social ?

who is the real @cassiodecampos.bsky.social ?

next is Elias Bareinboim (causalai.net) from Columbia University, who will discuss in his keynote talk about the recent ✨ progress toward building causally intelligent AI systems ✨ full abstract 👉 www.auai.org/uai2025/keyn...

time to announce our amazing keynote speakers! we start with Francesca Dominici (hsph.harvard.edu/research/dom...) from Harvard University, who will talk about: ✨ AI's uncertain, double-edged role in the fight against climate change ✨ full abstract 👉 www.auai.org/uai2025/keyn...

ready to Rio 🇧🇷? Here 👉 www.auai.org/uai2025/loca... are some useful tips on: - find an accommodation 🏡🌴 - travel from the airport ✈️🚗 - print your posters 📊 - and more!

Are you student 🎓 attending #UAI2025? Apply for a ✨ scholarship for free or reduced conference registration ✨! Don't miss out! Deadline is July 2nd, AoE. Apply here: forms.gle/CQG1BLy2Mvd3...

this profile is impersonating me on X and scamming people. And it got verified...! (*) golden rule: it is not me on social media if you don't see a ☠️. (*) please help me report this profile, if you are still on X

Steph Wright of the Scottish AI Alliance asking exactly the right question at our @braiduk.bsky.social gathering in Manchester: ‘How can we change the narrative from ‘Are you ready for AI? How can we make you AI-ready?’ to ‘Is AI ready for you? Is it good enough yet to be in your life, or business?’

Thanks to @kdau.bsky.social who took a photo of my talk yesterday at the satellite workshop of BayesComp. If you are attending the main conference, my co-author Mehdi will be presenting a poster on the same paper on mutual information bounds later today: arxiv.org/abs/2412.18539

when someone says they are "humbled" when receiving a prize, that's one of the three moments in which they have been the least humble in their whole life.

🇸🇬 Next stop: Singapore for BayesComp'25 (bayescomp2025.sg) The organizers put together a wonderful program! I'll be: 🪑 chairing the session on "Parallel comp for MCMC" 🎙️ speaking at the session on "Advances in VI" Looking forward to meeting researchers and catching up with colleagues.

#Nordic #probabilistic #AI starts in Trondheim 🇳🇴 I'll be here for a week TAing and giving a lecture on ⚡ #tractable⚡ models and I'm in good company @andresmasegosa.bsky.social @vabor112.bsky.social @jesfrellsen.bsky.social and more covering all aspects of 🎲 AI 👉 nordic.probabilistic.ai#lecturers

I told you we’d be back

I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.

ACL paper alert! What structure is lost when using linearizing interp methods like Shapley? We show the nonlinear interactions between features reflect structures described by the sciences of syntax, semantics, and phonology.

thanks for visiting us, Samy! 🚀🦕🍾