Shuiwang Ji

🧵 8/8 This work is done by the amazing team: Yi Lu, @DongfuJiang, @GHxiss, @YuyangBai02, @chuanli11, Yu Wang, @ShuiwangJi, @jianwen_xie, and our advisor @yuz9yuz . Thanks @LambdaAPI for the computing support @jianwen_xie!

@ylecun From foot to ear, and then cortex.

Shooting oneself in the foot? Nope. Shooting oneself in the prefrontal cortex.

@ylecun @Ph_Aghion @erikbryn His statement will be true for many years.

Dario is wrong. He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market. Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic. Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

@thegautamkamath LSTM?

The ACM Turing Award will be announced tomorrow. Any guesses on who won it?

@ProfJohnARogers @TAMU Thank you for visiting TAMU.

Just returning from an impressive black tie, gala ceremony at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at @TAMU ! The focus of the event was on inducting members of the 14th cohort of Hagler Fellows (highly accomplished senior faculty members from other institutions), recognizing two new Hagler Distinguished Lecturers and, most importantly from my perspective, celebrating the inaugural recipients of the Rogers/Huang Medal for scientific collaboration: Zhen Sang, Hongkyu Eoh @ehhgky, Kailu Xiao @spring01241993 , Dmitry Kurouski, Wenpeng Shan, Jinho Hyon, Svetlana Sukhishvili and Edwin L Thomas, selected for their work published in the journal Materials Today, titled “Supersonic Puncture-Healable and Impact Resistant Covalent Adaptive Networks.” In our presentation, Yonggang Huang and I shared some comments on the nature of the award, briefly reviewed our history as Hagler Fellows and provided a lay summary the work of the recipients as follows: ‘This paper introduces a unique class of polymer films that can heal puncture holes almost instantly after being hit by tiny objects flying at supersonic speeds! The healing happens because of clever physics and chemistry triggered by the extreme impact. The sudden hit creates intense localized heat and stretching that temporarily breaks some of the reversible bonds, turning stiff parts of the film soft and rubbery. The stretched polymer chains snap back like a rubber band as the material cools, pulling the hole mostly closed such that the chemical bonds quickly reform. This is an exciting development in fundamental polymer science, but with real world applications as protective films in space and, specifically, for our plans as a nation to return to the moon, potentially to establish self-sustaining communities on the moon as a precursor to making life multiplanetary. Interdisciplinary, collaborative research with fundamental and applied significance – perfectly aligned with the mission of this award!’ Special shout-out to the three senior investigators on this work: Prof. Dmitry Kurouski, Prof. Svetlana Sukhishvili and Prof. Edwin L Thomas, the latter two shown in the attached pictures with their medals. Congratulations also to the two new Fellows -- Prof. Tresa Pollock and Prof. @GeoffreyWCoates – and the two Distinguished Lecturers -- Prof. Thomas Hughes and Prof. Mordechai Segev – who are active in areas related to my own research interests. Another notable new Fellow this year is Lyle Lovett @LyleLovett, shown here passing through the ceremonial induction process. Prof. John Junkins and Dr. Clifford Fry deserve tremendous credit for creating this Institute and for sponsoring our award! Thank you! (if of interest, many more pictures will be available at flickr.com/photos/tamu_ti…)

@TAMUEngineering Congrats Thomas.

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Thomas Blasingame, #PETE department head, on being elected to the National Academy of Engineering! Recognized for groundbreaking work in predicting hydrocarbon production and decades of mentoring future engineers. 👏 #NAEMember 🔗 tx.ag/BlasingameNAE

@GalantiTomer @icmlconf same here

@icmlconf Reciprocal reviews: what happens if my co-authors (and I) are either unqualified for this or serve as ACs? Who should we nominate?

We're organizing the 1st Texas NLP Symposium! A one-day workshop bringing together NLP researchers across Texas and beyond to share ongoing work. 📅 April 3, 2026 📍 Texas A&M University 📣 Call for Papers ⏰ Deadline: Feb 20 🔗 texas-nlp.github.io Consider submitting!

@icmlconf 33540 - (# of ICLR accepted papers)

The #ICML2026 abstract deadline has passed! We're at 33540 active abstracts (and dropping). How many will make it over the finish line? 🏁

@SebastianSeung Congrats Sebastian.

For over twenty years, many dedicated researchers around the world have worked to realize the dream of connectomics. I'm especially indebted to the talented members of my laboratory, past and present. And I've been lucky to benefit from so many powerful collaborations.

@dyhTHU this is misleading and useless

📢ICLR2026 Acceptance Prediction is out! 🚀Find the acceptance of your paper in advance (predicted): paperdecision.netlify.app 🛠️Code of Multi-Agent Framework and Benchmark is available: github.com/PaperDecision/… 🎯Our goal is to understand the how and why behind paper decisions.

@pfau @rronak_ should be reward model

@rronak_ Isn't NeurIPS an academic conference? Why would people be talking about revenue models there?

My takeaways from Neurips 1. Continual learning. To support this next frontier, we’re going to need new architectures, new reward functions, new data sources, and new revenue models. 2. Neolabs. Frontier research for risky bets is being shared across multiple companies now 3. San Diego has way better weather than SF 😭

@tydsh Many students worked very hard over the break, and this decision is not fair to them.

yeah not a great choice. Demoralizing for students who have spent a lot of efforts to raise the scores ... then AC has a lot of works to do...

The biggest problem is complete loss of trust and a community full of terror.

I am curious how people could find out the non-trivial tricks to track reviewer names? Those who did and posted on social media should be hold accountable.

@CsabaSzepesvari @iclr_conf yes totally agree.

Anyone thinks that they don't want to belong to a community where there is zero trust that people will do the right thing? (I lived in such a system. It is horrible. People actually start to spy on each other, everyone is always terrified.) Food for thought @iclr_conf

@HaggaiMaron @chrsmrrs @iclr_conf 100% agree. Many students worked thru the holiday and their hard work should be respected.

This is a bigger disaster and, in my humble opinion, a reflection that the community is sick. Why are we afraid of our names being seen while publicly commenting on scientific work? Disabling of commenting and editing functions is insult to authors and killer of science.

@iclr_conf I do not feel this leak is a disaster. For example, some journals publish reviewer names publicly. If the reviewers can write, why are they afraid of their name being seen? Is science still open?