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Machine Learning Research Scientist @IsomorphicLabs | Previously: @Microsoft , @Amazon , @Cambridge_Uni , @MPI_IS

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Vincent Stimper
6 months
My PhD is coming to an end, and I'm excited to join @IsomorphicLabs as a Machine Learning Research Scientist soon. I'll be working in the Lausanne office starting in June. Very much looking forward to working on advancing drug discovery with AI!
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normflows is a PyTorch package for normalizing flows. It can be used to model densities, even those on complex manifolds such as the cylinder surface. A brief article about the package is now available on arXiv: 1/2
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Interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning? @MPI_IS and @CambridgeMLG offer a great collaborative fellowship where you spend 1 year at one institution and 3 years at the other. Apply until December 1, 2021!
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Just finished my PhD viva, being examined by @ArnaudDoucet1 & @pl219_Cambridge , and passed without corrections 🥳 Many thanks to my supervisors @jmhernandez233 & @bschoelkopf , co-authors, colleagues, friends, family, and everyone else who supported me throughout this journey 🙏
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I'm proud to announce that I received a PhD prize by G-Research including a monetary award of £10k. Thanks @GRESEARCHjobs for this generous appreciation of the research I did in the past 4 years! 🎉
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2 years
Today, 1:30pm CEST, I will be presenting my article Resampling Base Distributions of Normalizing Flows, being joint work with @bschoelkopf and @jmhernandez233 , during a poster session at #AISTATS2022 . Article: Code:
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I'm delighted to announce that our work about SE(3) Equivariant Augmented Coupling Flows has been accepted as a spotlight paper at #NeurIPS 2023 🎉 See you in New Orleans!
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Vincent Stimper
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Our novel SE(3) Equivalent Augmented Coupling Flows can model molecular configurations based on Cartesian coordinates, incorporating equivariance and scaling well to multiple molecules while maintaining fast density evaluation and sampling.
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Want to use Normalizing Flows in PyTorch? Then check out our repo . It includes Circular Neural Spline Flows, introduced by @DaniloJRezende et al., that can be combined with non-periodic coordinates as well, which have not been implemented elsewhere afaik.
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Vincent Stimper
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We'll be presenting our work Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap at ICLR in Kigali, Rwanda, from 4:30-6:30pm CEST at #167 .
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I'm glad to announce that our paper accompanying the normflows repository just got published in the Journal of Open Source Software 🎉 Thanks to my co-authors and all contributors to the package!
@VStimper
Vincent Stimper
2 years
normflows is a PyTorch package for normalizing flows. It can be used to model densities, even those on complex manifolds such as the cylinder surface. A brief article about the package is now available on arXiv: 1/2
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We'll present our work on SE(3) Equivariant Augmented Coupling Flows at NeurIPS next week as a spotlight poster. The poster session will be on Wednesday morning. Also, I'm graduating soon, so feel free to reach out if you're hiring.
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Laurence Midgley
1 year
Excited to release SE(3) Equivariant Augmented Coupling Flows () - an equivariant flow architecture with fast sampling and density evaluation, designed for energy-based training! With @VStimper @JaviAC7 @MathieuEmile @bschoelkopf and @jmhernandez233 ! 1/18
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2 years
I'm glad to announce that our article was accepted as a spotlight presentation (notable-top-25%) at the @iclr_conf . Looking forward to presenting it in Rwanda!
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Check out our new article Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap (FAB), which improves training normalizing flows on target distributions without the need of samples significantly. 1/3
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Our novel SE(3) Equivalent Augmented Coupling Flows can model molecular configurations based on Cartesian coordinates, incorporating equivariance and scaling well to multiple molecules while maintaining fast density evaluation and sampling.
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Laurence Midgley
1 year
Excited to release SE(3) Equivariant Augmented Coupling Flows () - an equivariant flow architecture with fast sampling and density evaluation, designed for energy-based training! With @VStimper @JaviAC7 @MathieuEmile @bschoelkopf and @jmhernandez233 ! 1/18
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Today, we are presenting our work "Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap" at the AI4Science workshop @NeurIPSConf . Visit us in the second poster session starting at 5pm in room 388-390.
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Vincent Stimper
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Interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning at the @MPI_IS and the @CambridgeMLG ? They offer joint fellowships where you spend time at both institutions. Apply until November 25 at
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Check out our new article Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap (FAB), which improves training normalizing flows on target distributions without the need of samples significantly. 1/3
@jmhernandez233
Jose Miguel Hernández-Lobato
2 years
Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap (FAB) is a new method for fitting normalizing flows to multimodal distributions, with impressive results! Work with amazing students and collaborators @SilkyDogfish , @VStimper , @gncsimm , @bschoelkopf . (1/8)
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Vincent Stimper
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Interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning? @MPI_IS and @Cambridge_Uni offer a joint position, including a fellowship with full funding. You'll spend one year at one institution and three years at the other. Apply here:
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Vincent Stimper
11 months
Thanks a lot to @TasksWithCode for being my first-ever sponsor on GitHub! It's great that they're supporting so many contributors to open-source projects.
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Vincent Stimper
9 months
If you haven't seen our poster on SE(3) Equivariant Augmented Coupling Flows at the main track of NeurIPS yet, you'll have a second chance today. We'll present it at the AI for Science workshop in Hall C2, with the poster sessions being 11:10am-12:00noon and 4:35pm-5:30pm.
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
We will be presenting our work "AutoML Two-Sample Test" today @NeurIPSConf at the poster Session from 11am - 1pm in Hall J, #536 . Looking forward to talking to you!
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Jonas M. Kübler
2 years
🧐 Do we need special-purpose libraries for powerful two-sample testing⁉️ No! All you need is an existing (Auto)ML framework and our Python package @VStimper @krikamol @bschoelkopf (and Simon Buchholz)
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Just got access to #dalle2 , getting inspiration from this art piece for my work now. "an oil painting of a cat working on difficult scientific problems" #dalle #AIart
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2 years
I'm attending @NeurIPSConf in New Orleans this week. Feel free to get in touch with me if you want to talk about Probabilistic Machine Learning, AI4Science, and more!
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
I played around with #dreambooth based on #stablediffusion and obtained these incredible results. Why should I even take pictures of myself anymore if I can generate them?
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We started working on this when I began my Master's thesis four years ago. I'm very proud that it is finally published in @NatComputSci !
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Nature Computational Science
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. @stadtkind_rpx , @VStimper , @MariosZacharias , @bschoelkopf and colleagues introduce a framework that reconstructs the energy dispersion from photoemission band mapping data and uncovers previously inaccessible momentum-space structural information.
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
The recording of our talk about our ICLR paper "Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap" is now available on YouTube. Thanks @HannesStaerk for being a great host!
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Hannes Stärk
2 years
An excellent discussion with @VStimper and Laurence Midgley about their "Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap" paper - I highly recommend this one! Definitely check it out if you are interested in Boltzmann generators.
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Excited to give my first in-person talk since the start of the pandemic at the #BiGmax Workshop 2022 in Bochum! Just realized that I forgot my laser pointer because I'm not used to use it anymore.
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Check out our new paper, where we introduce an easy to use AutoML two-sample test, and the corresponding package on GitHub.
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Jonas M. Kübler
2 years
🧐 Do we need special-purpose libraries for powerful two-sample testing⁉️ No! All you need is an existing (Auto)ML framework and our Python package @VStimper @krikamol @bschoelkopf (and Simon Buchholz)
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Moreover, we show that FAB can be combined with CRAFT, being proposed by @alexggmatthews , @MichaelArbel , @DaniloJRezende , and @ArnaudDoucet1 , which is an exciting avenue for feature research. 3/3
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
@SilkyDogfish and I will be presenting our work "Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap" today at the LoG2 Reading Group. Recently, this paper was accepted at @iclr_conf , being among the notable top-25% of the papers. I'm looking forward to an insightful discussion with you!
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Hannes Stärk
2 years
"Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap" is what we discuss tomorrow with the authors @SilkyDogfish and @VStimper ! Paper: Join the discussion at 11am EST / 5pm CET on zoom: Co-authors: @gncsimm @bschoelkopf @jmhernandez233
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2 years
This is especially useful in the context of Boltzmann generators proposed by @FrankNoeBerlin , @smnlssn , @jonkhler , and Hao Wu, where we get significantly better results than previously possible when training a flow without samples on alanine dipeptide. 2/3
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Vincent Stimper
9 months
I'm looking forward to interesting discussions! The paper is available on arXiv: We also provide a 5min summary presentation on the conference website:
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Vincent Stimper
4 years
The #lockdown gave me plenty of time to run and cycle around Cambridge. Soon, I'll have seen every inch of it.
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
I'm at the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium in Alicante this week and presenting a poster on Wednesday afternoon. Feel free to reach out! #EDS22
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Vincent Stimper
4 years
Apply for a PhD in our group! There are many projects to work on and I'm very happy here, so I can definitely recommend it.
@jmhernandez233
Jose Miguel Hernández-Lobato
4 years
PhD positions in Advanced Machine Learning at Cambridge Application deadline: noon December 3, 2020. Details about the application process can be found here:
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Vincent Stimper
10 months
Don't forget to apply by Dec 5, noon GMT, which is in less than a week!
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Vincent Stimper
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Interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning? @MPI_IS and @Cambridge_Uni offer a joint position, including a fellowship with full funding. You'll spend one year at one institution and three years at the other. Apply here:
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Vincent Stimper
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@maxjaderberg @IsomorphicLabs Likewise, looking forward to working with you and all other Isos!
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Vincent Stimper
7 months
@HannesStaerk @GrantRotskoff @UWproteindesign @loukasa_tweet @KevinKaichuang @fra_grisoni @thesteinegger @marwinsegler @Blendenfleck @open_fold @nickpolizzi_ @inve_michele @AnimaAnandkumar @jchodera @HeinzingerM @simonduerr @__kraemer__ @igashov I like the idea of building up on protein folding models to tackle a more general task, i.e. sampling conformers/sampling the Boltzmann distribution around metastable states. The results are promising, but many challenges remain to get to a Boltzmann generator for proteins.
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Vincent Stimper
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From my experience, it is a great opportunity to work with a diverse group of bright people. Being supervised by @jmhernandez233 and @bschoelkopf , I benefited from having access to the resources of both institutions and collaborating with brilliant scientists from either side.
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@HannesStaerk Looking forward to talking to you in New Orleans!
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
After AI already discovered novel, more performant chip designs, new matrix multiplication algorithms are getting invented now. Recursive self-improvement seems to become a reality.
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Google DeepMind
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Today in @Nature : #AlphaTensor , an AI system for discovering novel, efficient, and exact algorithms for matrix multiplication - a building block of modern computations. AlphaTensor finds faster algorithms for many matrix sizes: & 1/
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@jonas_kubler So happy that our paper got accepted! Congrats to everyone 🥳
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Vincent Stimper
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Wow, another mind-blowing image generation model after #dalle2 in such a short period of time!
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Raphaël Millière
2 years
With the release of #Imagen from @GoogleAI yesterday, here's a quick follow-up thread on the progress of compositionality in vision-language models.🧵 1/11
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Vincent Stimper
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@AnnalenaKofler I have the strange feeling that I'm something in between a data physicist and a pure machine learning scientist. And once somebody invents a word for that, my role will probably have changed again anyway.
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Vincent Stimper
10 months
@caroline_v_weis @GSK I'd be keen to talk. Just send you an email to follow up. Hope to talk to you next week!
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Vincent Stimper
3 years
@ErikFrach @ohhellokathrina @masscustom Den Terminator wird es in 5 Jahren definitiv nicht geben. Vielmehr wird man mit AI unscheinbare Prozesse effizient automatisieren, die in Summe die Welt verändern werden. Und wir sollte darauf hinarbeiten, sie zu verbessern.
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Vincent Stimper
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@jchodera @HannesStaerk @GrantRotskoff @UWproteindesign @loukasa_tweet @KevinKaichuang @fra_grisoni @thesteinegger @marwinsegler @Blendenfleck @open_fold @nickpolizzi_ @inve_michele @AnimaAnandkumar @HeinzingerM @simonduerr @__kraemer__ @igashov @drGregBowman Wouldn't being able to generate good seed samples for MD already be useful? The impact of small errors would be less severe in this case, so it is a simpler task for which some existing models might already be good enough.
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@peel_che @jmhernandez233 @MPI_IS @CambridgeMLG If you get accepted for the fellowship the full tuition fees are covered no matter which rate you have to pay.
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Vincent Stimper
10 months
@max_schambach @NeurIPSConf Looking forward to meeting you there!
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Feel free to drop by now:
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@siddharthswar Congrats! Applause for you ;)
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Vincent Stimper
2 years
Another incredibly well performing text-to-image model in such a short period of time? This cannot be real! There must be an AI generating these papers somewhere!
@lmthang
Thang Luong
2 years
Excited to share our work on Parti, state-of-the-art text-to-image model that generates photorealistic images with complex compositions & rich world knowledge! Parti shows that autoregressive modeling is powerful & universally applicable! (1/n) Blog/Paper:
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@TasksWithCode That's a great summary, although a little but out of date. It's a really nice platform you built there!
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