Vicente Ordonez

I remember when Twitter was this small and familiar. I had/have some followers on Twitter that now are low key celebrities but probably followed me long way back before they became low key celebrities.

We just have to believe

There are so many more things to be outraged about at the moment than complaining about federal funding for science. Especially when coming from academics, it is a bit too self-serving at this moment. Yes it is bad and the effects will be long lasting but so will be a dozen other things.

One thing we can do going forward is to work so that the general community gets convinced why funding science and having strong research institutions is a good thing. This time we might have to learn from our mistakes.

I think it’s exciting to see LLMs that are open source and on par with the top models accesible only through APIs. DeepSeek and before that Llama-3.

These are models that can perfectly be run on most cheap hardware unlike the full large R1. But I wouldn’t be surprised we will see R1 quality running on more accessible hardware.

I think it’s exciting to see LLMs that are open source and on par with the top models accesible only through APIs. DeepSeek and before that Llama-3.

Check this recent work by my PhD student Moayed. He has been doing amazing work on Generative AI for images, video and audio. We introduce AV-Link ♾️, an unified approach for audio-video generation. Our generated audio is the best in terms of synchronization with video actions. Check thread below.

La Era de la Inteligencia Artificial a short documentary produced by Telemundo Houston won a Lone Star Emmy in the Science category www.telemundohouston.com/noticias/tec...

Link to awards page lonestaremmy.org/awards-2/arc...

Had a great time this week visiting the University of Pittsburgh. I had not been to Pittsburgh in 10 years. I hope to be back sooner next time.

Looks like a fresh start in a new platform does not correct pile on behavior. It is hard to even notice when this is happening especially on one end. We see our own comments but we can’t see the other hundred comments saying the same thing in less polite language.

It reminds me of the irrational but also all too common collective behavior that arises when someone sends an email to a big list of email addresses and everyone starts asking to be removed from the mailing list.

Looks like a fresh start in a new platform does not correct pile on behavior. It is hard to even notice when this is happening especially on one end. We see our own comments but we can’t see the other hundred comments saying the same thing in less polite language.

Lots of people talking about ICLR reviews. For me the most frustrating these days is when a reviewer declares that a paper has not reached the required bar for acceptance or novelty. As if this was an objective commonly agreed tenant that everyone knows.

This is not saying that there’s no novelty, in fact I have experienced a version of this where novelty is in fact acknowledged but still does not reach the required bar.

La Era de la Inteligencia Artificial a short documentary produced by Telemundo Houston won a Lone Star Emmy in the Science category www.telemundohouston.com/noticias/tec...

Common software development advice that says we should write tests before implementations also applies to LLM-generated code. PropTest: Automatic Property Testing for Improved Visual Programming. arxiv.org/pdf/2403.16921

This relatively new work from my work was presented as a poster last week by my superstar PhD student Jaywon Koo at EMNLP 2024. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the poster. Unfortunately I wasn't there. Kudos to senior colleagues who talked to my student and sent me pictures!