Going to #SIGIR2023? Say hi :), and check out my students' short papers (Inference at Scale by Ngozi Ihemelandu, and Gender-Specializing Query Reformulation by Amifa Raj w/ @bmitra and Nick Craswell). I'll also be at the doctoral symposium, and around all week.

Evaluating text-to-image models is hard, but here are some potentially interesting dimensions:

Depth and breadth of knowledge
- easier: Icelandic wedding
- harder: 1940's wedding in Reykjavík's oldest theater

Compositionality for rare or unseen combinations
- easier: a scarecrow juggling purple birds
- harder: remorseful blue lasagna on a leather pentagonal table with furry elephant legs

Coherence of complex outputs
- easier: hands, letters
- harder: full website mockups, wiring diagrams

Using #dalle & breaking it a few times (create a square road sign with ‘blah’ written inside it) is making me wonder that the model learnt to generate objects from text, but failed to learn all combinations of positional embeddings required to place objects correctly in an image #AGI

Multivariable Causal Discovery for General Nonlinear Functions

https://openreview.net/forum?id=2Yo9xqR6Ab

#causal #inference #identifiability

Birdsite UI through mobile phone browser nails it 🙃 #twitter

Named Tensor Notation (TMLR version, https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13196)

A rigorous description, opinionated style guide, and gentle polemic for named tensors in math notation.

* Macros: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/namedtensor

Named Tensor Notation is an attempt to define a mathematical notation with named axes. The central conceit is that deep learning is not linear algebra. And that by using linear algebra we leave many technical details ambiguous to readers.

RT @camenduru@twitter.com

Good news 🎊🌟 I found a way running #stablediffusion #webui inside #Jupyter inside 🤗 @huggingface@twitter.com hehe, just duplicate the jupyter spaces and add gpu 🎉 I put a little surprise folder 🎁🎀 happy holiday🤗🎄🎅 ❤https://huggingface.co/spaces/camenduru/jupyter

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/camenduru/status/1606048180004536320

The surge continues.

Averaging 3000 to 4000 new users per hour. Mastodon continues to run pretty smoothly. Over 70,000 new users in the last 24 hours puts us on track for over 80,000 today.

Great appreciation for Mastodon instance operators! Most instances are funded entirely through donations, so if you can swing it, think about supporting your instance. Check out the /about page (eg https://[instance name]/about) for a donation link.

#twittermigration

Interested in #MAS and #AIforSocialGood?

We invite you to submit your work at AASG 2023, the 4th International Workshop on Autonomous Agents for Social Good, I am co-organizing with Bryan Wilder, Kayse Lee Maass, and Aparna Taneja!

#aamas2023, London, May 29-30

Topics of interest include
- Public Health
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Food Security
- Conservation
- Human Rights
- & More!

Details: https://panayiotisd.github.io/aasg2023/

I want to offer tea, hot meals, and warm blankets to all the recent #birdsite refugees. Instead, here they get distributed governance, collective human moderation, and a wonderful absence of billionaires. Pretty close I reckon. #twittermigration

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@thegradient looks like today was the final straw for many users of the bird site 🫡

Just in case anyone is unclear, here is why ChatGPT (or anything like it) will not replace search engines.

There is certainly room (and urgent need) to improve on Google's for-profit model, but this ain't it.

https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334

John Mastodon

Already one mitigation for stochastically parroted homework: ask for references and a bibliography

https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/znoynf/student_completely_inventing_a_research_paper/

This is the PsychoPy team's #introduction to Mastodon.

PsychoPy is an #opensource package to build and run experiments in #python and #js

PsychoPy is a widely used tool for the behavioural sciences like #psychology #linguistics #economics #neuroscience

This account will also tweet about other parts of the ecosystem like #pavlovia (it's like GitHub for behavioural science) and #PsychoJS

Looking forward to chatting with you here! 🥰😁

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@DBuschek very interesting! Could transform a lot of ways rec systems are designed :)

#Newpaper: Our work for #nlproc on segmenting conversational data is now out on @NeuripsConf (#ENLSP)

We find that reusing pre-trained feature hierarchy in a #transferlearning paradigm proves to be ineffective for topic segmentation tasks on chat data.

Topic Segmentation in the Wild:Towards Segmentation of Semi-structured & Unstructured Chats w. Harjeet S, Sharanya K, Dhuri S, Samyadeep B, Soundar S, #Umass #Microsoft
📝Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14954

Please DM to meetup @ #NeurIPS2022 :)

I am a PhD economist

I am a first-gen college grad

In grad school at MIT I began to sense that this was an unusual combo but I did not know how rare

& if we also consider that I am a woman then I am pretty sure the probability of my existence is indistinguishable from zero

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/08/dept-of-data-academia-elite/