This project is the result of an amazing collaboration between researchers at @istecnico, @illc_amsterdam, @IRI_robotics, @IRI_robotics, @UNC, @UCPH_Research, Pioneer Center for AI, @HeriotWattUni, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, @Unbabel, @Ellis_Amsterdam, @Lisbon_ELLIS,

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Come and join us at @AmsterdamNLP! We have two open PhD positions in #NLProc with a focus on multilingual NLP and LLM alignment. Looking for students with an NLP/ML background and an interest in language and society.

Enjoyed my trip to Amsterdam for the @ELLISforEurope school on foundation models (I think I caught the annual sunny day ☀️) I spoke on how we think about vision-language models @MistralAI: how to design them, why they're useful, and why there's a long way to go. (slides below)

@_rockt @GoogleDeepMind @UCL_DARK And for our final talk of the day: @dpkingma from @AnthropicAI. From the '20 questions game' to generative models, VAEs and optimizers. The topics covered in this year's school are broad and highly relevant for all researchers in this domain! 🎉

Next up we have the great @_rockt from @GoogleDeepMind and @UCL_DARK speaking on open-endedness and general intelligence. And he even starts with an even older reference to autonomous machines than Ada: the Iliad.

Day 2 of our @ELLISforEurope Foundation Models Winter School! Amazing weather and an amazing first speaker of the day: @dlarlus from @naverlabseurope speaking about lifelong learning. From Ada and Turing, to

@JJitsev @laion_ai Next was yours truly about some post-pretraining self-supervised methods and why video is great for learning string vision models.

Day 1: we start with the talk from @JJitsev from @laion_ai on open foundation models and scaling laws, good ones and bad ones.

Start of our @ELLISforEurope @Ellis_Amsterdam PhD school on Foundation Models here in Amsterdam. Weather is great and we've got amazing speakers lined up! Say hi when you're around :)

The nomination process emphasizes fairness, diversity, and rigorous evaluation, ensuring that those selected are leaders in their field and contribute to ELLIS Society’s vision. 🔗For more information, read our latest news item:

📢 New ELLIS Scholars and Fellows Accepted via the 2024 Amsterdam Unit Nomination 🚀Becoming an ELLIS Fellow or Scholar is a significant achievement. It represents scientific excellence, a commitment to societal impact, and global collaboration.

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📢 📢 Sign up now, the spots are limited! https://t.co/TWxQKjlHQU

🎯 Your mission: With this hackathon, we want to introduce you to ENFs and challenge you to try figure out solutions for new encoding schemes resulting in meaningful positional features. We will work in teams on the hackathon and have a benchmark to evaluate.

..schemes based on ENFs. ENFs try to overcome texture bias in CNNs and ViTs by grounding representations in geometry. Currently, geometry-grounded methods still struggle to create meaningful positional features and, at the same time, be as expressive as Sota models such as CNNs

🔹 @davidmknigge and @Dafidofff (UvA) will introduce cutting-edge research on ENFs and break down the hackathon details 🍲 We fuel up with a free lunch before diving into the challenge! 💡 The Hackathon Challenge: the hackathon focuses on developing new inference or encoding

🌆 Programs of the day 🔹 Dr. @erikjbekkers Bekkers (@UvA_Amsterdam) will dive into geometry-grounded representations & his vision for the future of representation learning 🔹Christian Shewmake (CEO of New Theory) will explore advances in foundation models &what’s still missing

Join Us for an Exciting Hackathon on Equivariant Neural Fields (ENFs) & Geometry-Grounded Representations! ✨ The Deep Thinking Hour, ELLIS unit Amsterdam & the New Theory joint forces, and host a hackathon focused on ENFs and geometry-grounded representations