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Chris Pal

@chrisjpal

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@chrisjpal
Chris Pal
1 year
Very proud of my colleague @etnlalib, his group, collaborators and my own students who, as a part of team Limelight have won a ($10M) XPrize - focused on the goal of increasing our understanding of the Amazon Rainforest #XPRIZERainforest & thanks to @IVADO_Qc for the support !
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XPRIZE
1 year
We’re so thrilled to announce the winners of the #XPRIZERainforest competition! 🥇Limelight Rainforest 🥈Map of Life Rapid Assessments 🥉Brazilian Team 🏆Bonus Prize winner: @ETHBiodivX Learn more about the teams in our video below. ⬇️ cc: @ColoradoMesaU
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@alexpiche_
Alexandre L.-Piché
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In-flight weight updates have gone from a “weird trick” to a must to train LLMs with RL in the last few weeks. If you want to understand the on-policy and throughput benefits here’s the CoLM talk @DBahdanau and I gave:
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@mattierialgirl
mattie ✨
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Generative Point Tracking with Flow Matching My latest project with @AdamWHarley @CSProfKGD @DerekRenderling @chrisjpal Project page: https://t.co/cs4zFEuLYU Paper: https://t.co/sa9NdFlOgP Code: https://t.co/F4Ug3JWkRX
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@alex_lacoste_
Alexandre Lacoste
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✨ What if we could tune Frontier LLM agents without touching any weights? Meet JEF-Hinter, an agent capable of analyzing multiple offline trajectories to extract auditable and timely hints💡 In our new paper 📄 , we show significant performance gains on downstream tasks ⚡ with
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@DBahdanau
🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
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We did lots of good work since PipelineRL release in May: ⚙️ higher throughput, seq parallel training, multimodal, agentic RL 📜 white paper with great explanations and results: https://t.co/F3YsIbNRUy We'll present today at CoLM EXPO, room 524C, 1pm!
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@alexpiche_
Alexandre L.-Piché
30 days
Very excited to be presenting Pipeline RL this afternoon at CoLM. Join us if you are interested in fast on policy RL training for LLMs 🚀
@DBahdanau
🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
30 days
We did lots of good work since PipelineRL release in May: ⚙️ higher throughput, seq parallel training, multimodal, agentic RL 📜 white paper with great explanations and results: https://t.co/F3YsIbNRUy We'll present today at CoLM EXPO, room 524C, 1pm!
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@jm_alexia
Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau
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New paper 📜: Tiny Recursion Model (TRM) is a recursive reasoning approach with a tiny 7M parameters neural network that obtains 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, beating most LLMs. Blog: https://t.co/w5ZDsHDDPE Code: https://t.co/7UgKuD9Yll Paper:
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Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) is a novel approach using two small neural networks recursing at different frequencies. This biologically inspired method beats Large Language models (LLMs) on...
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Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau
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With recursive reasoning, it turns out that “less is more”. A tiny model pretrained from scratch, recursing on itself and updating its answers over time, can achieve a lot without breaking the bank.
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@Mila_Quebec
Mila - Institut québécois d'IA
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Follow Mila researchers on day 2 of #COLM2025. Full schedule of Mila-affiliated presentations here https://t.co/e4298p390Y
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@Mila_Quebec
Mila - Institut québécois d'IA
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Suivez les chercheur·euse·s de Mila au jour 2 de la #COLM2025. Programme complet disponible ici https://t.co/JXvo6ASlhG
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@tscholak
Torsten Scholak
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with yours truly
@ServiceNowRSRCH
ServiceNow AI Research
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🧠 Don’t miss it at #COLM2025! SOCIAL: “Reasoning LLMs – Tips & Tricks Discussion” 📅 Tue, Oct 7 | 🕐 1:00–2:30 PM | 📍 Room 517BC Co-presented by ServiceNow AI Research + NVIDIA with Torsten Scholak (ServiceNow) & Olivier Delalleau (NVIDIA). Join the discussion on advancing
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@sivareddyg
Siva Reddy
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Huan Sun (@hhsun1) on improving safety of AI agents -- capabilities and safety should go hand-in-hand, not an afterthought -- definition: safety is unintentional alignment, and security involves adversarial attacks. For this talk, safety also involves security. -- Safety has to
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Siva Reddy
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The IVADO workshop on Agent Capabilities and Safety is happening now at HEC Montreal, Downtown (Oct 3--6) https://t.co/MEL4JAzLRn #LLMAgents
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ServiceNow AI Research
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SLAM Labs presents Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker 🚀 An open-weights multimodal reasoning model that hits frontier-level performance with just a fraction of the compute.
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@DBahdanau
🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
2 months
@alexpiche_ Perfect time for for @OpenAI to talk about reducing hallucinations! Cause you know, our work on learning to abstain by iterative self-reflection with @alexpiche_ @amilios and @chrisjpal has just got accepted at TMLR 😉
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Alexandre L.-Piché
2 months
Glad to see OpenAI prioritizing abstention responses in their paper! That's a great intro to our TMLR paper in which we developed an iterative self-reflection method for LLM to know when to abstain without ground truth and no additional cost at test time. https://t.co/xwNT68ejqm
@adamfungi
Adam Tauman Kalai
2 months
New research explains why LLMs hallucinate, through a connection between supervised and self-supervised learning. We also describe a key obstacle that can be removed to reduce them. 🧵 https://t.co/6Lb6xlg0SZ
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@Ahmed_Masry97
Ahmed Masry @ COLM 2025 🇨🇦
3 months
UI-Vision vs GPT-5: Still holding the crown 👑 and far from saturation. GPT-5 has strengths in coding and reasoning, but when it comes to computer-use tasks, it’s still awkward to rely on it alone. And our team's UI-Vision (ICML 2025) remains a key and still unbeaten multimodal
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@Saba_A96
Saba
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We built a new 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 + 𝗥𝗟 image editing model using a strong verifier — and it beats SOTA diffusion baselines using 5× less data. 🔥 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟: a simple, scalable RL pipeline for high-quality, controllable edits. 🧵1/
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Chris Pal
4 months
I think listening to this, with an amplifier set to 11, would be appropriate today.
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@chris_j_beckham
Christopher Beckham, PhD
4 months
Finally finished a blog post I've been working on (on and off) for months. It builds on a TMLR paper I published last year in model-based optimisation, but I wanted to explain things more clearly this time. More honest, more readable, more reflective. https://t.co/BBlaBDNUAP
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I’ve been thinking about offline model-based optimisation for the past six months, mostly in the background while working full-time, trying to write up something that captures both what I found and...
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@etnlalib
Etienne Laliberté
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We’re releasing SelvaBox, the largest tropical tree detection dataset from drone imagery. Our models trained on SelvaBox achieve competitive zero-shot detection performance on unseen tropical tree crown datasets, matching or exceeding competing methods. https://t.co/GGNoRdqHtw
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@lintool
Jimmy Lin
5 months
In December 2024 @pankaj @gilad @willhorn and I put out a rather cryptic arXiv paper musing about the future of search: https://t.co/CfpU5E2HxN. I’m now able to share what I’ve been up to! 🧵(1/9)
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When you have a question, the most effective way to have the question answered is to directly connect with experts on the topic and have a conversation with them. Prior to the invention of...
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