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Our 4th annual Ontario AI Snapshot with @DeloitteCanada is live, revealing why Ontario has become the most compelling AI growth story on the continent. The numbers are staggering: 📈 17,196 new AI jobs created (+101% growth) 📈 $2.6 billion in private investment (+69% YoY) 📈…
Beyond today's Vector Bytes finale, we're wrapping up with a couple more standout papers at #ICML2025 that showcase the innovation happening across our research community: 🔬 Neural network optimization advances - Vardan Papyan's normality normalization introduces a smarter…
What an incredible evening connecting with our community at the AI Career Compass social with co&co at #ICML2025! 🚀 The night kicked off with a masterclass on navigating AI careers, equipping researchers with essential tools: - Understanding market value and negotiation…
#Didyouknow that every time you train a neural network, you're using a Canadian algorithm? Hear what @VectorInst co-founders Sanja Fidler of @Nvidia and Raquel Urtasun of @waabi_ai have to say about Canada's advantage in applied #AI. betakit.com/canadas-edge-i…
🚨 FINAL HOURS: Winter 2026 Research Internship applications close TODAY at 1PM ET! Don't miss your last chance to launch your AI career with Vector and contribute to research that shapes real-world applications. As a Vector Research Intern, you'll experience a unique journey…
Three incredible days of Vector Bytes at #ICML2025 wrap up with our most diverse research portfolio yet! Here's how Vector Faculty are advancing AI across every front: 🛡️AI safety takes center stage - David Duvenaud's position paper warns of existential risk from gradual AI…
Happy #AIAppreciationDay! 🎉 What better way to celebrate than showcasing even more Vector researchers advancing AI at #ICML2025 today, beyond this morning's Vector Bytes highlights. 🧠Deep AI understanding - Sageev Oore and Felix Dangel's Hide & Seek (Spotlight paper) finally…
MedRAX is a hit at #ICML2025! Come see us if you want to focus the future of agents in healthcare (or want a free chocolate bar) @Cohere_Labs @VectorInst @UofT @adibvafa
1/ 💻 Queer in AI is hosting a social at #ICML2025 in Vancouver on 📅 July 16, and you’re invited! Let’s network, enjoy food and drinks, and celebrate our community. Details below…
What a day at the Vision & Learning Workshop at #ICML2025! With an incredible lineup of speakers to lighting talks on recent advancements in machine learning, researchers shared insights into the future of AI research. A huge thank you to everyone who made it a success!
Day 2 of Vector Bytes showcases today’s incredible breadth from our Faculty research at #ICML2025! Here's what's pushing AI forward: 🛡️Ethical AI: - Nicolas Papernot's Confidential Guardian uses cryptography to prevent discriminatory model misuse - Sivan Sabato develops new…
What an amazing night connecting AI researchers, founders, and industry leaders at the Research & Industry Convergence Salon! Thanks to our incredible co-hosts Sixty Degree Capital, @AWSstartups, @rbcx , @creativedlab, and @UBCSauderSchool for making this Vancouver #ICML2025…
Mission accomplished! #ICML2025
🌌🛰️🔭Want to explore universal visual features? Check out our interactive demo of concepts learned from our #ICML2025 paper "Universal Sparse Autoencoders: Interpretable Cross-Model Concept Alignment". Come see our poster at 4pm on Tuesday in East Exhibition hall A-B, E-1208!
Beyond today's Vector Bytes spotlights, our researchers are presenting additional groundbreaking work at #ICML2025 across three key areas: 🚀 Efficient AI systems - Boyu Wang's FedOne dramatically reduces costly cloud-based LLM queries by activating only one client per…
Excited to be presenting our work at ICML next week! If you're interested in loss landscapes, weight symmetries, or sparse training, come check out our poster — we'd love to chat. 📍 East Exhibition Hall A-B, #E-2106. 📅 Tue, July 15 | 🕚 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m PDT.
1/10 🧵 🔍Can weight symmetry provide insights into sparse training and the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis? 🧐We dive deep into this question in our latest paper, "Sparse Training from Random Initialization: Aligning Lottery Ticket Masks using Weight Symmetry", accepted at #ICML2025
"Sharpness of the loss surface tells us about generalization... except when it doesn't (like in transformers)." But what does sharpness mean? You might say "it's how much the function changes within a little ball". Ok, so in the simple picture shown below, at which of the two…
[1/🧵] ✨ Hide & Seek: Transformer Symmetries Obscure Sharpness & Riemannian Geometry Finds It ✨ Super excited to announce our paper on factoring out parameter symmetries to better predict generalization in transformers (accepted as #ICML25 spotlight! 🎉) Amazing work by…
We're bringing back our 'Vector Bytes' at #ICML2025 – your audio spotlight on Vector Faculty research! Today's poster presentations celebrate groundbreaking advances across multiple frontiers: - Colin Raffel's "The Butterfly Effect" reveals how tiny perturbations cause…
Yesterday's Vision and Learning Workshop at #ICML2025 delivered exactly what the AI research community needed – bold ideas, rigorous science, and meaningful connections. The afternoon sessions were particularly thought-provoking: - Qiang Yang's insights on federated learning…
An energizing morning with our Vision and Learning Workshop at #ICML2025! This morning delivered incredible insights from world-class researchers: - Vector Faculty Member Evan Shelhamer's opening remarks - Masashi Sugiyama from RIKEN challenging our thinking on Bayes error…
Awesome vibes and a busy room at the Vancouver Vision & Learning Workshop at @icmlconf 2025, cohosted by @UBC @SFU @VectorInst. Honoured to be part of the vibrant AI community in Vancouver! More great speakers this afternoon: sites.google.com/view/vancouver… Thanks to the organisers…
🇨🇦 West Coast computer vision/ML researchers representing! 💪 Full house at @VectorInst event!
Hanging out at the @VectorInst event this morning.