This was an outstanding and inspiring lecture by David W. Romero ! If you want to get up to speed with SSMs / long-conv models (CKConv, Hyena, Mamba, etc) —which beat transformers, please watch back the recordings! My take-home as usual is: convolution is all you need! 🙃

Amsterdam in summer is my favorite Amsterdam. Come learn from the best, enjoy the city with some new friends, and overall have a great time 😊

Although I couldn’t make it myself tonight, it’s really cool to see our Responsible Media Lab highlighted at RecSys Nederland by Martijn Willemsen!

SEA 🌊 is back! Join us on Friday, May 17th, when Olivier Jeunen takes a critical look at evaluating recommender systems using nDCG! Sign up here 👉: meetup.com/de-DE/sea-sear…

📣📣 Check out ESSIR 2024's program! We start with Transformers, Foundation Models, and Finetuning, followed by Generative IR, LLMs, (Neural) RecSys, LTR, Evaluation, Explainability, and Fairness. ESSIR features FIDA and a week-long hackathon! 👩🏻‍💻 2024.essir.eu/attending/scho…

Structured data is everywhere. Now we just need to unlock its potential! A unique opportunity to go work with Madelon! And across the street from my office :)

This is really cool stuff. Proud of these two guys, David Wessels and David M. Knigge! Go check out their work :)

Are LLMs the end of IR? @ekanou presenting 42 things you need to know about IR at #ESSIR24.

Listening to Mark Sanderson talking about challenges and opportunities in evaluating generative IR.

The Search Engines Amsterdam Meetup The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam is back ✨ followed by drinks🍻 📆 Fri, Oct 4th 📍Lab42, room L3.33 ⏰16.00 🚀James Allan (UMass) will talk about Probing Ranking LLMs: Mechanistic Interpretability in Information Retrieval 🔗meetup.com/sea-search-eng…

15th ELLIS ESSIR Summer School on #informationretrieval was held from 1-5 July 2024 The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam of the UvA Amsterdam 🚀 The ELLIS flagship school is the largest ESSIR organized so far and the first ESSIR to include a hackathon✨ 🔗ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/ellis/2024/10/…

🇨🇦 Deeeelighted to share that this work got into #neurips2024. Many thanks to my dear friend and co-author David Wessels, as well as the rest of the team. Solving PDEs in continuous space-time with Neural Fields on cool geometries while respecting their inherent symmetries! 💫💫

Want to work on search for (news) media at one of the biggest publishers in the Netherlands? DPG Media IT is looking for an addition to their team. Great opportunity in my opinion: vacatures.dpgmedia.nl/o/software-eng…

My "looking for a postdoc" stickers and I are in Miami for #EMNLP2024! 🤩 Do you have/know of a postdoc for summer/autumn '25 related to interpretability, figlang and/or memorisation (vs generalisation)? Reach out! Looking forward to #GenBench2024 on Saturday and the many many...

I moved to bsky.app/profile/davidv…. It's really nice over there, I think you should try it!

Honored to be Zihan’s paranymph!

Very happy to share my first project at NVIDIA! 🚀 We present Meshtron, a pure Transformer model that consistently reasons over 500k+ tokens to generate 3D meshes of outstanding quality. Webpage: research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/mesht… w/ @zekunhao19951 Tsung-Yi Lin & Ming-Yu Liu 🧵

We shed some light on what language model you should use for your next news recommender system!