Flora Salim

We REALLY REALLY need a "Findings" for NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML. 25,000 submissions at this year's NeurIPS represents extreme excess pressure. It takes valuable time away from legitimate new research. One question is how to administer it. I suggest that Findings go through a lightweight round focused on improving clarity, reeling in overselling, etc. An AC can then "sign off". Authors can always decline the opportunity, if they want to try for the next conference. The NeurIPS's proceedings are called "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems". We could have "Findings in Neural Information Processing Systems", or to not trample on their brand, perhaps "Contributions to Neural Information Processing Systems". ICLR could have "Letters on Learning Representations." ICML could have "Machinations on Machine Learning."

Today witnessed an electrifying talk by the legendary Professor Ben Shneiderman (@benbendc) at UNSW AI Institute! "Generative AI: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". Mind officially blown. events.unsw.edu.au/event/generati… #GenerativeAI #AI #UNSWAI - My key takeaways - 1/4

A new stark reality to hit us and the entire planet ecosystem. And it’s only going to get worse unless we do something about it nature.com/articles/d4158…

#IJCAI2025 Call for Tutorials 📆Submission deadline: 28 March 2025 ➡️2025.ijcai.org/call-for-tutor… 📣Chair: Flora Salim @flosalim and Quanming Yao #AI #Research #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence

@lakmalbuddika @nokia @BellLabs Congratulations

✨The news is out, and I'm super excited to share that soon I’ll be joining the 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 at @Nokia @BellLabs as a 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁🎉 My work will broadly focus on 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜/𝗠𝗟 for areas such as 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵. Truly honored to join @danielequercia’s incredible team and contribute to driving the Responsible AI vision forward🙌 Looking forward to this exciting chapter + collaborations! #ResponsibleAI #BellLabs #Cambridge Read the new Responsible AI newsletter here: social-dynamics.net/newsletter/202… Bell Labs' Responsible AI Seminar series: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Join this challenge. To find out more you can find us at NeurIPS if you’re attending. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024/p… ⚒️ github.com/cruiseresearch… 📍 Fri 13 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5106

1/ 💡🏢 New Challenge Alert: Join the Brick by Brick: Automating Building Data Classification Challenge and tackle one of the biggest hurdles in sustainable building tech - automated building data classification. 📷 Join now: aicrowd.com/challenges/bri…

My pick was Transformer! What’s yours? @NeurIPSConf #NeurIPS2024

Come and find us. I have upcoming openings in my group (postdocs and PhDs). Keen to reconnect, discuss potential new collaborations, and meet new friends. Our school @UNSWCOMPUTING is advertising for 7 Associate Professor positions. Feel free to reach out. @unsw_ai #NeurIPS2024

Resolution-Agnostic Transformer-based Climate Downscaling 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024/1… 📍Tackling Climate Change workshop 🔗arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14774 We introduced a cost-efficient downscaling method using a pretrained Earth-ViT model, to generalize across different resolutions

👀 our 3 #NeurIPS2024 📌 in thread. 1. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024/p… 📍 Thu 12 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5406 2. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset 🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024/p… 📍 Fri 13 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5106 3. 🧵

Threads or BlueSky or something else? I’m a newbie on both: @ florasalim.bsky.social on BlueSky. @ fsalim on Threads. BlueSky seems more civilized with more paper discussions, but mostly NLPs. Threads seems more casual. I need help finding folks on both platforms. Find me there?

@aadi_joshi Amazing Aditya! 👏

Visiting Perth for an introductory talk on LLMs at two venues: the WA Magistrate’s Society Conference and the National Judicial Orientation program for Justices of WA. This follows up from similar talks to Justices in ACT and NSW. It all started with a referral by @flosalim

My piece published this morning @ConversationEDU. theconversation.com/what-is-ai-sup… @UNSWCOMPUTING @unsw_ai @UNSW @uDASH_UNSW Thanks @MmichaelLlucy

“…I believe safe superintel is feasible. However, building it will be a complex & multidiscipl task…researchers will have to tread unbeaten paths to get there.” @flosalim @unsw_ai What is AI superintelligence? Could it destroy humanity? theconversation.com/what-is-ai-sup…