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Kosta Derpanis (sabbatical in Munich ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช)

@CSProfKGD

#CS Assoc Prof @YorkUniversity, #ComputerVision Scientist Samsung, @VectorInst Affiliate, TPAMI AE, @ELLISforEurope Member #CVPR2026 #ECCV2026 Publicity Chair

Toronto, Ontario ๊ฐ€์ž…์ผ AฤŸustos 2015
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Xingyi Yang
Xingyi Yang@yxy2168ยท
Finally got some time to look at the popular Seoul World Model recently. What excites me most isnโ€™t training giant WM; itโ€™s anchoring generation to a map that retrieves from what we already see, and scaling up the pipeline. Very exciting! seoul-world-model.github.io
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Ahmad Salimi
Ahmad Salimi@ahmadsalimi_ยท
@CSProfKGD Escalators' orientation is the same I think haha. Repeatedly took the wrong escalator.
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Ravid Shwartz Ziv
Ravid Shwartz Ziv@ziv_ravidยท
New episode of the Information Bottleneck! We talked with @StefanoErmon about why he thinks diffusion LLMs will replace autoregressive ones. Stefano co-invented DDIM, FlashAttention, DPO, and score-based diffusion models. He's a Stanford professor and now runs @Inception_AI, where they built Mercury II. We go deep but also cover the bigger picture - the startup journey, PhD vs industry, and where AI is heading. A few things that stuck with me: - He thinks of autoregressive models as typewriters and diffusion models as editors. One goes left to right. The other starts messy and refines. - Mercury II (their text difussion model) already beats the fastest autoregressive models on latency-critical stuff as voice agents, code suggestions, anything where you have a tight time budget. And it does it because diffusion generates tokens in parallel instead of one at a time. - We also got into whether AI will actually replace software engineers (his answer: no), PhD vs industry advice, and what it was like going from an ICML best paper to raising money.
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Zhongang Cai
Zhongang Cai@caizhongangยท
Video might be the next intelligence substrate. Strikingly, video models are beginning to exhibit the same emergent reasoning behaviors first observed in LLMsโ€”multi-path search, self-correction, and layer specialization. We demystify video reasoning and show it doesnโ€™t happen frame-by-frame, but along diffusion steps. ๐Ÿ”— wruisi.com/demystifying_vโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“„ huggingface.co/papers/2603.16โ€ฆ So, what's next? ;)
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Variety
Variety@Varietyยท
FIRST LOOK: Val Kilmer has been resurrected via AI to star in the new movie "As Deep as the Grave." Kilmer was cast in the movie in 2020, five years before his death. But he was too sick amid his throat cancer battle to ever make it to set. Now an AI version of the actor is appearing in the film, with the full blessing of his daughter, Mercedes: "He always looked at emerging technologies with optimism as a tool to expand the possibilities of storytelling. This spirit is something that we are all honoring within this specific film, of which he was an integral part.โ€ โ€œHe was the actor I wanted to play this role,โ€ says writer-director Coerte Voorhees. โ€œIt was very much designed around him. It drew on his Native American heritage and his ties to and love of the Southwest... His family kept saying how important they thought the movie was and that Val really wanted to be a part of this. He really thought it was important story that he wanted his name on. It was that support that gave me the confidence to say, okay letโ€™s do this. Despite the fact some people might call it controversial, this is what Val wanted.โ€ wp.me/pc8uak-1lH1PI
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Google Labs
Google Labs@GoogleLabsยท
Introducing the new @stitchbygoogle, Googleโ€™s vibe design platform that transforms natural language into high-fidelity designs in one seamless flow. ๐ŸŽจCreate with a smarter design agent: Describe a new business concept or app vision and see it take shape on an AI-native canvas. โšก๏ธ Iterate quickly: Stitch screens together into interactive prototypes and manage your brand with a portable design system. ๐ŸŽค Collaborate with voice: Use hands-free voice interactions to update layouts and explore new variations in real-time. Try it now (Age 18+ only. Currently available in English and in countries where Gemini is supported.) โ†’ stitch.withgoogle.com
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Andrei Bursuc
Andrei Bursuc@abursucยท
An unsolicited guide to being a researcher: super instructive slides by @EugeneVinitsky emerge-lab.github.io/papers/an-unsoโ€ฆ - different goals of a PhD student - how to be a good collaborator - how to keep up with literature - tracking your ideas & experiments - stress & productivity
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#CVPR2026
#CVPR2026@CVPRยท
Bring your research to life at #CVPR2026! The Call for Demos deadline is only 2 DAYS away. โณ Don't let your breakthrough stay trapped in a PDF. Show the community what your work looks like in action. Join us in Denver! ๐Ÿš€ Submit here: cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/20โ€ฆ
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Dmytro Mishkin ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
Sad, but important announcement -- one of our challenges -- Building3D lost their sponsor in the very last moment. So new prize fund is $14k: - $12k for S23DR 2026 - $2k for Building3D 2026. We apologise for this situation, and hope that you still decide to participate. #CVPR2026
Dmytro Mishkin ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ@ducha_aiki

Two #CVPR2026 competitions are live: S23DR 2026 and BuildingWorld 2026! Task: reconstruct house roof wireframes from point clouds and segmentations: Total prize fund: $22k Deadline: end of May 2026 1) huggingface.co/spaces/usm3d/Sโ€ฆ 2) huggingface.co/spaces/Buildinโ€ฆ @CVPR @structGeom

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ICML Conference
ICML Conference@icmlconfยท
To ensure compliance w peer-review policies, ICML has removed 795 reviews (1% of total) by reviewers who used LLMs when they explicitly agreed to not. Consequently, 497 papers (2% of all submissions) of these (reciprocal) reviewers have been desk rejected Details in blog post ๐Ÿ‘‡
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ELLIS
ELLIS@ELLISforEuropeยท
Say hi to @chiaraplizzari, Asst. Prof at @Unibocconi ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น, ELLIS Member at @ELLISUnitMilan. She researches Computer Vision & Egocentric Video Understanding. As advice, she says, โ€œdonโ€™t hesitate to ask for opportunities โ€” many doors donโ€™t open unless you knock!โ€ #WomenInELLIS
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