Dan Roy
@roydanroy
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ML / AI researcher. Research Director and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS).
University of Toronto
Joined June 2009
RT @_vaishnavh: Today @ChenHenryWu and I will be presenting our #ICML work on creativity in the Oral 3A Reasoning session (West Exhibition….
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RT @_vaishnavh: thank you! tagging @ChenHenryWu, the student lead on this, @chuckzduck (that's Charles btw) and @AdtRaghunathan! . also tag….
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Congrats to @_vaishnavh and coauthors (Chen Wu · Charles Ding · Aditi Raghunathan) on their outstanding paper award at ICML, following up on his very thought provoking work on the pitfalls of optimizing for next token prediction.
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RT @saprmarks: xAI launched Grok 4 without any documentation of their safety testing. This is reckless and breaks with industry best practi….
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Cool work on extending linear mode connectivity to LLMs. (thanks to Ekansh Sharma for bringing it to my attention).
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I also hate the idea of tokenization and so this is very welcome!.
Tokenization has been the final barrier to truly end-to-end language models. We developed the H-Net: a hierarchical network that replaces tokenization with a dynamic chunking process directly inside the model, automatically discovering and operating over meaningful units of data
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RT @thejonullman: Super proud of our students @KhouryCollege! . Special shoutout for my former student Lydia @zakynthinou and my postdoc M….
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Looks interesting!.
I’ll present "TabICL: A Tabular Foundation Model for In‑Context Learning on Large Data" at ICML 2025. 🗓 Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | 4:30–7:00 PM PDT. 📍 East Exhibition Hall A‑B, Booth hashtag#E‑320. If you're curious about TabICL, come by the poster — I'd love to chat !.
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RT @JustinWolfers: My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortage….
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Super curious to hear what people think about SuperGrok (Grok 4). My initial impression is positive. I heard the demo was low production value (who cares?). But is it interesting to watch for experts?.
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Someone needed a lot of money, so they bought copper a couple days ago. Everyone understand now?.
You can’t create new copper mines in our country. The copper mines in the world are where they are. There’s literally nothing you can do about it. You can tariff copper 10,000% and it still won’t change the fact that most of the copper on earth is in Chile and Peru. Why
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Note that faculty in the teaching stream are expected to contribute to pedagogical research to reach tenure. And so you should be excited about creating the next breakthroughs in the way we teach. Of course, I can't think of a better moment than this.
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If you are a truly exceptional instructor, apply. Our teaching team is "cracked", as the kids say nowadays.
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The Department of Statistical Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time teaching stream position in the area of Statistical Sciences. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream.
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Exciting opportunity at UBC, one of the elite Canadian institutions.
The Departments of Computer Science and Medicine at #UBCVancouver are recruiting an outstanding researcher to be nominated for the #CERC in AI for Improving Patient Outcomes and Enhancing Health Service Delivery. Apply here before August 1st:
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Someone shipped their code to X production servers before testing again, didn't they?.
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Anyone interested in probabilistic regression trees and willing to referee some theoretical work for me? If so, DM me.
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RT @patrickshafto: @roydanroy @tdietterich Classically, semiotics (eg CS Peirce) See also the "gavagai" problem (WVO Quine). Modern empir….
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RT @shl: If you're a new mom, we're hiring!. • Backend: Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/Next.• Frontend: React, Next. Part-time (10-25 hours a week)….
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