Interested in visual reasoning? Wondering how to measure mental imagery in VLMs? Check out MentisOculi by @jana-z.bsky.social, with minor input from yours truly :)

I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!!

imprs.is.mpg.de/application
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species.
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🚨Great Models Think Alike and this Undermines AI Oversight🚨
New paper quantifies LM similarity
(1) LLM-as-a-judge favor more similar models🤥
(2) Complementary knowledge benefits Weak-to-Strong Generalization☯️
(3) More capable models have more correlated failures 📈🙀
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Hiring announcement: ELLIS Institute Tübingen is looking for ML Researchers & Engineers for Open-Source AI Tutoring (m/f/d). The image features a white background with bold black text and the colorful ELLIS logo at the bottom.

🚀 We’re hiring! Join Bernhard Schölkopf & me at @ellisinsttue.bsky.social to push the frontier of #AI in education!

We’re building cutting-edge, open-source AI tutoring models for high-quality, adaptive learning for all pupils with support from the Hector Foundation.

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@actor-and-critic.bsky.social could be a resource for the DRL course :)