Andrei Manolache (amanolache on the Butterfly app)
@andreimano2
PhD student at @Uni_Stuttgart @MPI_IS @ELLISforEurope | ML Researcher at @Bitdefender | http://andreimano.github.io | amanolache on the Butterfly app
1/6 We're excited to share our #NeurIPS2024 paper: Probabilistic Graph Rewiring via Virtual Nodes! It addresses key challenges in GNNs, such as over-squashing and under-reaching, while reducing reliance on heuristic rewiring. w/ @ChendiQian @chrsmrrs @Mniepert Thread 🧵

📢 AIRomania & ARIA are launching the 2nd edition of the Best Romanian AI Thesis Awards, a competition for top bachelor's, master's and PhD theses in AI. More details here: days.airomania.eu/brait2025 🇷🇴 Cash prizes and participation at @EEMLcommunity summer school for the winners!
Applications are now open for EEML 2025 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 21-26 July! 🎉 Learn from top AI researchers and connect with peers in Sarajevo 🇧🇦, a historical crossroads of East and West. Needs-based scholarships are available. Deadline: 31 March 2025.
Catch my poster tomorrow at the NeurIPS MLSB Workshop! We present a simple (yet effective 😁) multimodal Transformer for molecules, supporting multiple 3D conformations & showing promise for transfer learning. Interested in molecular representation learning? Let’s chat 👋!

EEML is my favorite ML event. If you're looking for a summer school for 2025, I highly recommend anyone to apply - keep an eye on future announcements 😄
EEML2025 will be organised in July 2025 in the beautiful city of Sarajevo - the place where East meets West 🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦. More details coming soon, see link in thread.
Thrilled to announce our paper on deepfake localization has been accepted at #WACV2025! 🚀 Meet DeCLIP, a model that precisely identifies AI manipulations inside images, even in LDM-inpainted images. A new step towards robust generalization in the fight against deepfakes! 🧵👇
Given the ICLR drama, here's a short addendum: I rarely give borderline scores and almost never leave post-rebuttal scores on the fence. If a paper’s good, accept it; if it’s not, reject it. Borderline scores stress authors and make decisions harder for ACs.
🧵1/n Good question! My process is usually: 1) Skim the paper, take some notes; 2) Do an in-depth read and start writing strengths/weaknesses/questions (at this point I usually know the score); 3) Sleep on it and re-visit after a few days to write the final review.
I’m very happy to be recognized as a #NeurIPS top reviewer for the third year in a row! 🥳 Quality reviews are key to a healthy scientific field, and it feels great to know I’m a positive contributor to the peer-review system.

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The people of Moldova have spoken: our EU future will now be anchored in the constitution. We fought fairly in an unfair fight—and we won. But the fight isn’t over. We will keep pushing for peace, prosperity, and the freedom to build our own future.
Quanta Magazine is such a great science communicator - these illustrations are GORGEOUS
Albert Einstein upended our view of the universe by merging space and time into a single dynamic fabric. Now, many physicists are coming to their own radical realization: The fabric of space-time seems to emerge from something else. 🧵
my therapist gave me this and said, "that's you"
my therapist gave me this and said, "that's you"
EEML'24 Day 5 Videos are out! 🇷🇸 (1/2) * AI for Agriculture (Krstan Kešelj): youtu.be/-bFErhGFvDU?si… * Advanced Architectures (Răzvan Pașcanu): youtu.be/-_H9icSG2qs?si… * Active Learning (@velibor): youtu.be/QSeUv4xhNM8?si… * @UiPath keynote (@_tudor): youtu.be/8ePHIhA6p80?si…
EEML Day 4📈 Geometric DL @mmbronstein: youtu.be/TLeofz0o7uY?si… VC @matej_micek: youtu.be/PCAS_Y-P1hA?si… Startups @gnutekm Ana-Maria @talexgeorge @GeorgeRedTech @nikola_mrksic @mmbronstein Jelena: youtu.be/99pSHiguhYk?si… 🇷🇸Javni događaj (details soon): youtu.be/pSIixwbxEf0?si…
EEML'24 Day 5 Videos are out! 🇷🇸 (2/2) * AI in Therapeutics (@GligorijevicV): youtu.be/OitlWkJPLjY?si… * Geometric DL Tutorial (@DutaIulia & Vladimir Viktor Mirjanić): youtu.be/ZvpxLfDz_mk?si… You may find the Colab for the GDL Tutorial 🌐 at this link: github.com/eemlcommunity/…
EEML'24 Day 5 Videos are out! 🇷🇸 (1/2) * AI for Agriculture (Krstan Kešelj): youtu.be/-bFErhGFvDU?si… * Advanced Architectures (Răzvan Pașcanu): youtu.be/-_H9icSG2qs?si… * Active Learning (@velibor): youtu.be/QSeUv4xhNM8?si… * @UiPath keynote (@_tudor): youtu.be/8ePHIhA6p80?si…