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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2025-02-03 at 09:44

A better resolution version is on my webpage

https://emtiyaz.github.io/papers/symposium_2024.pdf

Also check out our group's webpage

https://team-approx-bayes.github.io/

and all fun technical stuff at the Bayes-duality project

https://bayesduality.github.io/

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2025-02-03 at 09:42

A poster highlighting our main research this year. Taking a few steps towards low-cost AI.

The most exciting research is to scale up variational (Bayesian) methods to GPT-2.

We also did some work on model-merging, which I believe will change federated and continual learning.

I truly believe that we can train AI models cheaply and safely (without needing nuclear power plants, or stealing everybody's data). Working towards making demos that will change minds.

Looking forward to 2025.

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2025-01-30 at 05:22

Didn’t think to hear about Knowledge distillation as the cause of market crash. 😂

“Speaking on Fox News, he suggested that DeepSeek may have used the models developed by OpenAI to get better, a process called knowledge distillation”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vm1m8wpr9o

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-12-22 at 01:56

“He acknowledged that it was an unpopular opinion within the AI research community, which is accustomed to pulling data from the internet, but said "they will have to change and it's a matter of time."

“Balaji didn't think that better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence "was right around the corner, like the rest of the company seemed to believe."”

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-12-22 at 01:56

Warning: This story includes discussion of suicide. Do not read if it causes you distress.

“Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died”

"It doesn't feel right to be training on people's data and then competing with them in the marketplace," Balaji told the AP in late October. "I don't think you should be able to do that. I don't think you are able to do that”

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241222/p2g/00m/0in/003000c

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-11-23 at 00:49

“Lava engulfs Iceland's Blue Lagoon car park”

I went to Blue Lagoon Spa while attending AISTATS 2014. 😢

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cq521pw0pgjo

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-11-07 at 04:04

If this is not enough, there is more bad news coming and we will continue to see worse for years to come. It’s like a really long sinking scene of the Titanic.

“2024 on track to be world's warmest year on record”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dpnxnvv2go

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-11-07 at 03:58

“Trump victory 'major setback' to climate action”

Unforgivable! Future generations will judge us for what is happening now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygplyg09ro

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-11-06 at 01:47

“Mount Fuji is still without its iconic snowcap in November for the first time in 130 years”

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241106/p2g/00m/0sc/009000c

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-10-15 at 03:45

Videos of talks held during the 2nd Bayes-duality workshop in June 2024 are now publicly available.

Playlist: https://bayesduality.github.io/workshop_2024.html#videos

Each talk separately: https://bayesduality.github.io/talks_2024.html

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-10-15 at 01:21

“One key for the future is how societies manage new technologies such as AI.

"AI could go either way," he said. "AI could either empower people with a lot of education, make them more highly skilled, enable them to do more tasks and get more pay. Or it could be another massive wave of automation that pushes the remnants of the middle down to the bottom. And then, yes, you're not going to like the political outcomes.''”

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241015/p2g/00m/0bu/003000c

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-10-05 at 01:32

Effects of AI are being felt in anticipated (bad) ways.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9k5dv1zdo

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-09-29 at 04:53

This is how AI is going to ruin the world. It’s not the terminator style action.

“Tokyo gov't launches AI dating app to match couples, boost births”

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240929/p2g/00m/0li/020000c

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-09-17 at 08:34

We have two open post-doc positions. You dont' have to be a Bayesian but somebody who is interested to work with at the intersection of DL, Bayes, and optimization.

https://www.riken.jp/en/careers/researchers/20240917_2/index.html

Interest in understanding deep learning and continual lifelong learning is a plus!

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-08-28 at 11:54

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4yerrg451o

Deepfake is a problem that will keep@causing harm for many many years to come.

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-08-27 at 04:36

“a fighting chance of preventing the irreversible collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheet….. means cutting global emissions 43% compared to 2019 levels by 2030, and 60% by 2035.

Last year though, global emissions rose 1%.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ej0xx2jpxo

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-08-16 at 23:21

Call for papers for AISTATS 2025 is out now

http://aistats.org/aistats2025/call-for-papers.html

You can also (self-)nominate for reviewer/AC position

https://forms.gle/saediFoTznTQ7heC6

We are (trying to) switch to OpenReview so submission details will be available a bit later.

One major change is that the author list at the abstract submission deadline will be considered final, and no changes in authorship will be allowed. This is to avoid new unforeseen COI after the bidding.

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Written by Emtiyaz Khan on 2024-08-12 at 19:57

“Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks”

“By measuring how fast seismic waves travel, scientists have worked out what material they are most likely to be moving through.”

Science works!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxl849j77ko

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