Checkout our work "Computational Mirrors: Blind Inverse Light Transport by Deep Matrix Factorization" to be presented at NeurIPS 2019. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=bzsfRE… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1912.02314 Project webpage: compmirrors.csail.mit.edu

You can definitely do great work without having to sacrifice other aspects of your life -- in fact, in many cases, having a fulfilling life outside of work is a requirement in order to do great work

Updated code release (+fun features!) for our project "On the "steerability" of generative adversarial networks" is now available on github! Check it out at: github.com/ali-design/gan… Joint work with (Nick) Ali Jahanian and Phillip Isola, to appear at ICLR2020

If you're in higher education, you need to read the #BlackintheIvory thread. If Black Lives Matter is a statement your colleagues/dept/college/university is using, we must examine what that means for our institutions.

arXiv staff will participate in the #strike4blacklives - read our statement here: bit.ly/arXivStrike4Bl…

We are proud to participate in #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM tomorrow, aimed at enabling education, action, reflection, and healing re: racism in academia & STEM. Learn: shutdownstem.com/racism-in-acad… Take action: shutdownstem.com/action

“Much of the foundational work showing the flaws of modern facial recognition tech with regard to racial bias is thanks to Joy Buolamwini, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, and Timnit Gebru, a member at Microsoft Research.” via The Verge theverge.com/2020/6/10/2128…

Please support & amplify this petition to demand accountability from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s leaders to address racial bias and implement abolitionist policies to policing at MIT bgsa.mit.edu/sbl2020

“Just stick to the science” doesn’t even make sense to me anymore. Science is driven by people. People are messy. People need to be mentored. People need support. People need to be empowered. When we build up people we build up science.

I signed this petition. ICE announced that international students attending US universities offering online-only classes in the fall due to COVID-19 must leave the country. This deserves more media attention. petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow…

You’ve heard of elf on a shelf??? brace yourselves for

Three months ago Google had two ethics co-lead. It has fired both and is running a smear campaign on them, to boot.

Image-text alignment is hard — especially as multimodal data gets more detailed. Most methods rely on human labels or proprietary feedback (e.g., GPT-4V). We introduce: 1. CycleReward: a new alignment metric focused on detailed captions, trained without human supervision. 2.