Arif Ahmad @ NeurIPS 2025
@arif_ahmad_py
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We are in the world model era now. Currently IFM. Prev. @GoogleDeepMind and @Nvidia
Joined January 2021
We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.
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Alyosha is always such a pleasure to listen to!
We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.
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🔥 We are pleased to announce the talk title for our #LAW2025 #NeurIPS workshop Join us on 📅Sunday, Dec 7th in📍Upper Level Ballroom 20D Full schedule here: https://t.co/70KMNl2GVG We look forward to seeing you all this Sunday! #NeurIPS2025 #AI #ML #WorldModel #Agents #LLMs
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we shouldnt set a separate goal post for academics vs industry. science is science - no matter where it is done or who does it! It is a slippery slope- would we have lower bar for papers by UG or High school students, or papers from academic institutions or countries where
We may need to consider splitting the review process into academic and industry tracks in future AI/ML conferences. I’ve seen many genuinely good ideas get rejected simply because the experiments aren’t “large-scale” enough—which in practice often means industry-lab-scale
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Crossed paths with Prof. @pratyusha_PS near her poster “Lora vs Full Fine-tuning” at #NeurIPS2025. Her work offers fundamental insights for the field and has strong scientific rigour. Had a discussions on research directions and long-term vision. Was nice to briefly connect.
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If you ever feeling down, watch this! Much better than therapy!
We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.
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Well worth watching. Very cool take from my beloved advisor on correlation vs causality. Though have to show this holds for more than just support structures :-) More people should walk around conferences and post good video snippets! Way to go, @arif_ahmad_py!
We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.
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I remember seeing him at a CV conference before, personally presenting his own poster. I was genuinely surprised that such a senior professor would so passionately explain a poster himself, it is deeply admirable. We need more people like him!
We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.
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Alyosha’s energy is contagious — this is what research passion looks like. Presenting his student’s work @anand_bhattad @konpatp at #NeurIPS2025
We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.
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A better view and quality: https://t.co/czBeIJEqc5
We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.
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Alyosha’s theatre! 😎
We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.
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Amazing work by Koe! Also SimWorld is a spotlight paper at Neurips! Do visit his poster and say hi to him.
🤔LLM/VLM agents are great at text, math, and code — but can they live and reason in the real world? Can we let LLM/VLM agents learn and evaluate in a complex, noisy, dynamic, and unpredictable environment, just as the real world? 🚀Really excited to introduce SimWorld, a
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10 years ago, a few months after Google acquired DeepMind, they soon acquired two startups that came together at Oxford: DarkBlueLabs and Vision Factory. https://t.co/r4xI4gaSlq The startups included Prof Phil Blunsom, @notmisha, @ziyuwang, @nalkalc, @egrefen, Karen Simonyan,
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The @ilyasut episode 0:00:00 – Explaining model jaggedness 0:09:39 - Emotions and value functions 0:18:49 – What are we scaling? 0:25:13 – Why humans generalize better than models 0:35:45 – Straight-shotting superintelligence 0:46:47 – SSI’s model will learn from deployment
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the 60 paper author's company (Algoverse) has a website claiming ~70% acceptance rates at workshops (which have very low bars for acceptance). I don't think any of their papers are even at the main conference. Some papers look great, many seem kind of just random/slop (although
A colleague brought this miraculous situation to my attention. @NeurIPSConf is there an upper limit on the number of workshop papers that a single person can author? Having 60 (sixty) papers in one conference? How is this humanly possible? https://t.co/XJBvC9Exfd
#neurips2025
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A colleague brought this miraculous situation to my attention. @NeurIPSConf is there an upper limit on the number of workshop papers that a single person can author? Having 60 (sixty) papers in one conference? How is this humanly possible? https://t.co/XJBvC9Exfd
#neurips2025
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Apparently the controversy was due to this new business in town: 1. Charge $3-4K from high school/undergrad students for writing papers for grad school applications. 2. Put yourself as a co-author to ALL of the papers. 3. Enjoy $600K (low estimate) + 60 @NeurIPSConf WS papers!
@ilkedemir @NeurIPSConf lmao this is actually peak academic malpractice
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💡 Should you do a PhD in AI (2025–26)? 🎓 🔗: https://t.co/b5w2pBGj3N Every October, students considering PhD applications ask me: is a PhD still the right path in AI? ⚖️ ⚠️ After a few years moving between academia (@UniofOxford's @Oxford_VGG) and industry (@QCOMResearch,
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Read this thread if you are looking for a TLDR!
Introducing ACT-1: The frontier robot AI behind Memo. ACT-1 enables Memo to perform: 🎭 ⏰ Lengthy tasks like cleaning up after your dinner 🦾 Dexterous tasks such as folding socks ☕ Daily delights like making an espresso How does it work? 🧵
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