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Danica Sutherland

@djsutherland.ml

machine learning asst prof at @cs.ubc.ca and amii statistical testing, kernels, learning theory, graphs, active learningโ€ฆ she/her, ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ, @queerinai.com

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Come join us in a great department in a great city! I'm not on the search committee, but feel free to be in touch if you have any questions or anything.

27.10.2025 19:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

REMINDER!! We hope to see you all โœจTODAYโœจ for our social! Check out queerinai.com/icml-2025 for further details! ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆ

16.07.2025 21:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1/ ๐Ÿ’ป Queer in AI is hosting a social at #ICML2025 in Vancouver on ๐Ÿ“… July 16, and youโ€™re invited! Letโ€™s network, enjoy food and drinks, and celebrate our community. Details belowโ€ฆ

04.07.2025 16:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

As things get ever worse in the UK and the US releases sloppy political โ€œreviewsโ€ of bad science (magnified by the NYT/Atlantic/etc), a good reminder for anyone who has โ€œconcernsโ€ about trans youth care.

(Canada seems okay federally for now, but AB/SK are going in v bad directions.)

01.05.2025 15:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a slide:
AI Scientists still suffer from hallucinations

โ€œWe use an LSTM-based neural network (Goodfellow et al. 2016)โ€ is highlighted, with the comment โ€œShould be Hochreiter and Scmidhuberโ€

Screenshot of a slide: AI Scientists still suffer from hallucinations โ€œWe use an LSTM-based neural network (Goodfellow et al. 2016)โ€ is highlighted, with the comment โ€œShould be Hochreiter and Scmidhuberโ€

AI Scientist making the funniest possible citation mistake (Goodfellow instead of Schmidhuber)

28.04.2025 06:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Queer in AI @ ICLR 2025: Social Sign-In Survey Please note that most fields below are optional. We also strongly encourage you to fill out the Queer in AI Demographics Survey which provides QinAI with information about our community we use to help...

Join us tomorrow for our official social at #ICLR2025 on Saturday, 04/26, 5:00 - 6:30 pm in the GHJ room ("hidden" between Hall 2 and 3)! We canโ€™t wait to see you all and to mingle! After the social ends, we will also set out for an unofficial bar tour of downtown Singapore.

25.04.2025 09:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thrilled to announce that Joshuaโ€™s paper won one of three Outstanding Paper awards at ICLR.

Come to the poster on Friday afternoon (#376 in Hall 3) or the talk on Saturday (4:30 in Hall 1), and while youโ€™re at it snag him for a postdoc!

23.04.2025 07:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 36 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ขCurious why your LLM behaves strangely after long SFT or DPO?
We offer a fresh perspectiveโ€”consider doing a "force analysis" on your modelโ€™s behavior.
Check out our #ICLR2025 Oral paper:

Learning Dynamics of LLM Finetuning!

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21.04.2025 05:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 70 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

From the intro to a paper I'm reading:

"Theorem 3 is proven in Section 4 and Theorem 4 is proven in Section 3."

๐Ÿ˜”

13.02.2025 07:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Some Like It Hot - Waterpolo
Some Like It Hot - Waterpolo YouTube video by ThMasker

youtu.be/0zG8Je6NyYM

03.02.2025 08:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bias Amplification in Language Model Evolution: An Iterated Learning Perspective With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the prevalence of iterative interactions among these models is anticipated to increase. Notably, recent advancements in multi-round self-i...

If for some reason youโ€™re *not* in Vancouver for NeurIPS, you can always read the paper I guess:

arxiv.org/abs/2404.04286

13.12.2024 10:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What happens when models, like LLMs, learn from each other across multiple generations?

@joshuaren.bsky.social + collaborators extend a cogsci framework called Bayesian iterated learning to think about, and avoid, pitfalls.

#NeurIPS2024 poster #3305, Friday 11-2

(Also, snag him for a postdoc ๐Ÿ˜‡)

13.12.2024 09:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This analysis of how attention scores work in graph transformers was pretty surprising to me, and enabled the rest of this paper (and hopefully more!). Come check out the poster soon!

12.12.2024 18:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As in Tennessee, this ban does not apply to cis children, because the drugs themselves are not a safety hazard. The only thing at risk is a societyโ€™s discomfort with allowing young people to make their own decisions about their own bodies.

11.12.2024 14:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 4316 ๐Ÿ” 1803 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33 ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
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Graph Transformers (GTs) can handle long-range dependencies and resolve information bottlenecks, but theyโ€™re computationally expensive. Our new model, Spexphormer, helps scale them to much larger graphs โ€“ check it out at NeurIPS next week, or the preview here!
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#NeurIPS2024

05.12.2024 19:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 65 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
A schedule of the planned events at the Queer in AI workshop at NeurIPS 2024. It will be held in West Meeting Room 202-204 at the Vancouver Convention Centre on 11 December. Opening Talk at 10 AM. Speaker session on "Designing Technology for Gender Transition" at 10:30 AM. Panel on "Queer Creative Storytelling" at 11 AM. Panel on "AI and Data Governance" at 1 PM. Co-working Session on "Participatory AI and Data Governance 1" at 2 PM. Sponsor Networking Session at 3 PM. Co-working Session 2 at 3:30 PM. Closing talk on "Queer Producing in Latin America" at 4:30 PM.

A schedule of the planned events at the Queer in AI workshop at NeurIPS 2024. It will be held in West Meeting Room 202-204 at the Vancouver Convention Centre on 11 December. Opening Talk at 10 AM. Speaker session on "Designing Technology for Gender Transition" at 10:30 AM. Panel on "Queer Creative Storytelling" at 11 AM. Panel on "AI and Data Governance" at 1 PM. Co-working Session on "Participatory AI and Data Governance 1" at 2 PM. Sponsor Networking Session at 3 PM. Co-working Session 2 at 3:30 PM. Closing talk on "Queer Producing in Latin America" at 4:30 PM.

๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒˆWe have an incredible day planned for you at our #QueerInAI workshop at #NeurIPS2024 in Vancouver on December 11! You can join us in person or virtually via live-stream! Find out more about our events and our lovely speakers at queerinai.com/neurips-2024!! โœจโœจ

03.12.2024 21:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson... has an upper and lower bound on the probability but not an exact valueโ€ฆ.

27.11.2024 03:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, guess I should add that this is from arxiv.org/abs/2409.06890

22.11.2024 07:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot from the linked paper, showing Proposition 4 which relates HSIC to the mutual information. The proof is based on Pjnskerโ€™s inequality and the Bretagnolle-Hiber bound, with a pointer to Canonne (2023).

Screenshot from the linked paper, showing Proposition 4 which relates HSIC to the mutual information. The proof is based on Pjnskerโ€™s inequality and the Bretagnolle-Hiber bound, with a pointer to Canonne (2023).

I used the same note recently โ€“ itโ€™s a good note!

22.11.2024 07:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/quai...

22.11.2024 07:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, I donโ€™t know what else I was expecting.

22.11.2024 07:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The main reason I wrote arXiv-collector was to use biblatex cleanly, which can otherwise be a huge pain. If you donโ€™t use biblatex, either is fine; each has some features the other doesnโ€™t (though I prefer my way obviously :p).

20.11.2024 02:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - djsutherland/arxiv-collector: A little Python script to collect LaTeX sources for upload to the arXiv. A little Python script to collect LaTeX sources for upload to the arXiv. - djsutherland/arxiv-collector

Periodic reminder: submitting on #arXiv is great! But the source is available: good per se, but remember to remove LaTeX comments you don't want to be made public.

Thankfully, there are tools that do that (and more) easily and automatically for you! E.g., arXiv-collector:
github.com/djsutherland...

18.11.2024 02:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 69 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1