Agustinus Kristiadi

📢 [Openings] I'm now an Assistant Prof @WesternU CS dept. Funded PhD & MSc positions available! Topics: large probabilistic models, decision-making under uncertainty, and apps in AI4Science. More on agustinus.kristia.de/openings/

LLMs are trees🌲. How to find the best root ➡️ leaf path given a reward model, efficiently? At a given node, how to decide the next node optimally? @ahmadrash and co. have an answer at ICML in Vancouver next week! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.04517

Great funding opportunity for prospective PhD students! I'm hiring :) agustinus.kristia.de/openings/

🌟 Interns in Action: Vector Research Intern Spotlight! Meet @AndresGuzco whose Vector research internship became the foundation for his PhD journey! Working with Vector Faculty Member @A_Aspuru_Guzik and former Postdoctoral Fellow, @k_neklyudov, Andres dove into the…

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

AABI 2025 has just been concluded. We had a great time talking to each other and listening to great talks about probabilistic ML and its applications in Singapore 🇸🇬 Looking forward to AABI 2026! Stay tuned!

Congratulations to the #AABI2025 Proceedings Track Best Paper Award recipients!

Congratulations to the #AABI2025 Workshop Track Outstanding Paper Award recipients!

We just kicked off #AABI2025 at @NTUsg in Singapore! We're livestreaming the talks here: timrudner.com/aabi2025! Schedule: approximateinference.org/schedule/ #ICLR2025 #ProbabilisticML

Released Nvim 0.11 It's a good one 😚🤌 - Diagnostics: virtual_lines - LSP: config, folding, completion, multiclient - Options: 'winborder', 'eventignorewin' - Perf: treesitter, LSP, paste - TUI: URL highlight, theme event - Terminal: real cursor, reflow - UI: unicode, :detach

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

In this year's Advent of Code, I used Gleam --- a functional language with the look and feel of Rust and OCaml. I summarized what's great and what's not about it, and which functional language can replace Python for us scientists (cough, Elixir) here: agustinus.kristia.de/blog/gleam-aoc…

ghostty.org 👻

📢 Another paper at #NeurIPS2024! 📰 "FSP-Laplace: Function-Space Priors for the Laplace Approximation in Bayesian Deep Learning" Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2407.13711 Details in 🧵

Thanks to @CNN's @claresduffy for spending the morning with AC director @A_Aspuru_Guzik @UofT to discuss how we're transforming drug discovery with #AI and #automation. Stay tuned for more!

📢 STEM students: Ready to shape the future of AI this summer? Applications are now open for Vector's Summer 2025 Research Internships. Don't miss this chance to make your mark in groundbreaking AI research! Apply today 👇 vectorinstitute.ai/programs/resea…

On Feb 11 & 12, Meta will host the first AlgoPerf Workshop on "How can we train neural nets faster?" featuring talks by the AlgoPerf competition winners but also interactive panel sessions. To get one of the limited invites, register your interest at forms.gle/6nmLN21JLET6CW…

Last week, we hosted the Vector Foundation Models for Science Workshop, bringing together over 200 brilliant minds both in person and online from diverse fields including machine learning, chemistry, and biology. The energy was palpable as researchers gathered both in-person and…