Vladimir Kostic

🚨BREAKING: The "Board of Peace" launches its first war....

A Prime Minister, not a creep.

We will free women n children in Afg - Kills 3.2 million We will free women n children in Iraq - Kills 1.9 million We will free women n children in Libya - Kills 2.6 million We will free women n children in Iran - Kills 100 girls in 30 minutes Saviours of women

"Your attack on Iran is working. No one is talking about you raping children."

I just returned from Jordan, with unprecedented clarity about what - from and through Palestine - the Israel/US axis is doing to the entire region. It pains to see what is unfolding. How come so many did not see it coming? Greater Israel, unveiled.

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇 "As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions. Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation. So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East. Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse. A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

On the Hardness of Conditional Independence Testing In Practice #3312, Thu 11am ✨spotlight✨ Doubly-Robust Estimation of Counterfactual Policy Mean Embeddings #2406, Fri 11am Density Ratio-Free Doubly Robust Proxy Causal Learning #2413, Fri 11am 2/2

At #NeurIPS ? Visit our posters! 🧵 Demystifying Spectral Feature Learning for Instrumental Variable Regression: #2600, Wed 11am Regularized least squares learning with heavy-tailed noise is minimax optimal: #3012, Wed 4:30pm ✨spotlight✨ 1/2

@iclr_conf What to do when hours before the rebuttal deadline a clearly fully LLM review with obvious hallucinations was changed parroting other ones? When the rebuttal started we notified AC, the reply: I will consider this when making the decision, please reply to it as you see fit

We want to update the community on our response to concerns about low-quality and LLM-generated papers and reviews, and steps we are taking & will be taking blog.iclr.cc/2025/11/19/icl… We will follow up with another blog later on desk rejections and reviewer-related decisions!

Online talk on Wednesday - looking forward to it!

Distributional diffusion models with scoring rules at #icml25 Fewer, larger denoising steps using distributional losses! Wednesday 11am poster E-1910 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.02483 @agalashov @ValentinDeBort1 Guntupalli @zhouguangyao @sirbayes @ArnaudDoucet1

@neu_rips @AdilSlm @eugene_ndiaye 🫶🙌

i had the incredible honor of teaching a mini-course on RL at #MLSS2025 in Senegal. very inspiring to see the dedication & excitement of all the young people that showed up to learn, not to speak of the heroic work of the organizing team led by @AdilSlm & @eugene_ndiaye !!!

@DimitriMeunier1 @gaussianmeasure @moskitos_bite @ArthurGretton Congrats 🎉

Check out our new result on regression with heavy-tailed noise ! I learned a lot on this project, thanks to @gaussianmeasure for leading the project. @moskitos_bite @ArthurGretton

Muslim Indian Boy Shuts Down Reporter.

Great talk by Aapo Hyvärinen on non linear ICA at AISTATS 25’!

@erfunmirzaei @MPontil

🚨 Poster at #AISTATS2025 tomorrow! 📍Poster Session 1 #125 We present a new empirical Bernstein inequality for Hilbert space-valued random processes—relevant for dependent, even non-stationary data. w/ Andreas Maurer, @vkostic30 & @MPontil 📄 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=a0EXk…

@neu_rips @NnekaOkolo4 🫶🎉🎉👏👏

my 4th phd student @NnekaOkolo4 just graduated today. i have no words for how proud i am of her and the work we've done together

For the past four years, I’ve been working on a topic that’s both fascinating and challenging to explain. In this post, I’ve tried to present The Operator Way — a paradigm for understanding dynamical processes — in plain, approachable terms. pietronvll.github.io/the-operator-w…

*PLS SHARE* Open position for an *Associate Professor* in Machine Learning at our department (@enginyeria_upf / @UPFBarcelona), via the Serra Hunter programme. DEADLINE: January 13th 2025 upf.edu/web/personal/o…