Holy moly. The current WNBA salaries are (accounting for inflation) still below the salaries of the ABL, a player-centric WBB league that preceded and, for a moment, competed with the WNBA.

One-day workshop on Diffusion models and Flow matching, October 24th at @ensdelyon.bsky.social Registration and call for contributions (short talk and poster) are open at gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/mod...

I can't* fathom why the top picture, and not the bottom picture, is the standard diagram for an autoencoder. The whole idea of an autoencoder is that you complete a round trip and seek cycle consistency—why lay out the network linearly?

Si on supprimait la CSG payée par les retraités et qu'en même temps on baissait les retraites du même montant, Rien n'aurait changé mais on pourrait dire "on a baissé le taux de prélèvement obligatoire de 0,75 point de PIB" et le niveau de dépense d'autant. Et alors ?

Welcome @univorleans.bsky.social #ESR

For Europeans, this is a reference to an iconic Norman Rockwell image painted during the desegregation of southern schools. The difference is that in that image the federal law enforcement officials were the good guys.

I just discovered this tree view. Why isn't this enabled by default? Only this really makes sense for complex threads.

#IPAM (the institute for pure and applied mathematics) is facing a critical shortfall for operating expenses due to an unexpected suspension of NSF funding www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... . Donations for emergency continuity of operations funding can be made at giving.ucla.edu/Campaign/Donat

Oh crap #MathSky, that institute is IPAM! Having IPAM destroyed is a legit disaster for a large part of the math community 😭 www.ipam.ucla.edu

20 years ago this day I had the chance to participate to the RIPS IPAM program… it was my first experience on research in image processing, a very impactful and enriching experience. I hope IPAM can be preserved!

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

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.

La #RIPEC C1 c’est bien mais il y a mieux pour certains chercheurs : - chargés de recherche : 6 290 € ; - directeur de recherche : 8 230 €

Revalorisation historique !

Eure-et-Loir forever !

On l’apprend grâce à @etiennecatalan.bsky.social : Guerschon Yabusele portera le numéro 28 aux Knicks !

Malgré le rapport du Sénat sur les 211 Mds€ (!) d'aides aux entreprises, rien dans les propositions qui envisage de les réinterroger retrouver le rapport du Sénat : www.senat.fr/rap/r24-808-... 3/6

1/ Can open-data models beat DINOv2? Today we release Franca, a fully open-sourced vision foundation model. Franca with ViT-G backbone matches (and often beats) proprietary models like SigLIPv2, CLIP, DINOv2 on various benchmarks setting a new standard for open-source research.

⚠️⬛ "Année blanche" ou annonce d'une série noire pour le service public ? Il y aurait beaucoup à dire sur les annonces budgétaires du premier ministre ce mardi. Mais le plus frappant, c'est peut-être combien les conséquences de ce plan sur les services publics sont invisibilisées. Thread 1/14 ⤵️

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Tommorrow Emile Pierret will present our paper "Diffusion models for Gaussian distributions: Exact solutions and Wasserstein errors". #ICML2025 Tue 15 Jul 11 a.m. West Exhibition Hall B2-B3 #W-1015. More details here: pierret.perso.math.cnrs.fr/publication/...

Emile Pierret, Bruno Galerne: Exact Evaluation of the Accuracy of Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems with Gaussian Data Distributions https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07008 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07008 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.07008

After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers. Here is an example. (I will not share the identity of the paper)

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

JO du jour : Arrêté du 16 juin 2025 fixant le montant annuel des composantes indemnitaires créées par l'article 2 du décret n° 2021-1895 du 29 décembre 2021 portant création du RIPEC. C1 à 4800 €. Depuis le temps qu'on l'attendait, celui là. www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...

Today at 4pm, poster #36 #CVPR2025

I am at #CVPR2025 in Nashville to present our paper "SGSST: Scaling Gaussian Splatting StyleTransfer". We apply high-quality style transfer to ultra-high resolution 3D Gaussian splatting scenes. The project page is here: idpoisson.fr/galerne/sgsst/. The poster session is Sun. June 15 at 4 pm.

So I painfully discovered that you cannot open a local html website with an iPad… very annoying!

#ESR Des nouvelles de la revalorisation RIPEC C1 pour 2025 prévue par la loi LPR ?

We're hiring! IMAGINE @ École des Ponts (Paris area) is opening a 4-year "CV for X" researcher position: – competitive salary – no teaching load – starting pkg ≈ 2 PhDs – goal: impactful core AI + X (climate, biodiversity, robotics...) Apply by May 31: imagine-lab.enpc.fr/wp-content/u...

[ #VeilleESR #GraphCrime ] Évaluation, simplification et méthode : François Bayrou dresse le bilan et définit les orientations du plan France 2030 par @julienjanko.bsky.social pour @aefsuprecherche.bsky.social Jamais vu un graphe aussi drôle. www.aefinfo.fr/depeche/7296...

This morning I will present our #icassp2025 🇮🇳 paper "Vision Transformers for X-ray Diffraction Patterns Analysis", joint work with my former PhD student Titouan Simonnet (IDP & BRGM), Diarra Fall (IDP, Univ. Orléans) and Sylvain Grangeon (BRGM) doi.org/10.1109/ICAS... Poster 1G at 8:30 am.

L’excellent Soulcié pour L’Est Républicain.

The AI for Science summer school, coorganized by CNRS and U of Chicago will be in Paris, June 30th to july 4th, register asap if you want attend! datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ai-sc...

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

🔥🔥🔥 CV Folks, I have some news! We're organizing a 1-day meeting in center Paris on June 6th before CVPR called CVPR@Paris (similar as NeurIPS@Paris) 🥐🍾🥖🍷 Registration is open (it's free) with priority given to authors of accepted papers: cvprinparis.github.io/CVPR2025InPa... Big 🧵👇 with details!

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »

So Lumon is the legendary Bell Labs !?!?!! I am mindblown (or mindsevered ?).

6 postes à l’Université d’Orléans !

How did you draw the conclusion? I thought that was an easy question for Gemini...

Hard to keep up with all Trump’s actions. Punishing law firms is one I missed…

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Trump: “So that we don’t end up like Europe”. I wonder how many Americans actually think the US has less crime than Europe

🚨 New preprint! How far can we go with ImageNet for Text-to-Image generation? w. @arrijitghosh.bsky.social @lucasdegeorge.bsky.social @nicolasdufour.bsky.social @vickykalogeiton.bsky.social TL;DR: Train a text-to-image model using 1000 less data in 200 GPU hrs! 📜https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21318 🧵👇

"The universities control the knowledge in our society (...) We have to agressivly attack the universities (...). Fundamental lies that feminism is liberating (...) There is wisdom in what Nixon said, the professors are the enemy " bryanalexander.org/politics/the... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...

The fact that many US civil servants lose their jobs from one day to the next is kind of inconceivable for the French state employee I am…

Liberty outside the French ambassador’s residence

Shockingly accurate. Waiting for a grant to be approved before starting the research project is #toolittletolate.

Going over some old notes from a course by J.M. Morel I found this very nice paper with, what could be, the publication of the first random field manually generated. "Some informational aspects of visual perception" F Attneave, Psychological review, 1954.

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”