Victor Escorcia
@escorciav.bsky.social
Father. AI Freelancer @ 🇮🇹. Ph.D. @KAUST_AEx. @AdobeResearch @Qualcomm_EU @samsungresearch Wandering Caribbean 🇨🇴, ☮️❤️❌⚔️
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📣 Upcoming Workshop! Join the ELIAS, ELLIOT & ENFIELD TDW on Trustworthy AI to explore the technical, ethical, & environmental challenges of deploying reliable, fair, and sustainable AI systems.
📅 Mar 6
📍 Paris/Hybrid
🔗 https://bit.ly/4bMMiME
@elliot-eu.bsky.social · @horizonenfield.bsky.social
📅 Mar 6
📍 Paris/Hybrid
🔗 https://bit.ly/4bMMiME
@elliot-eu.bsky.social · @horizonenfield.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
📣 Upcoming Workshop! Join the ELIAS, ELLIOT & ENFIELD TDW on Trustworthy AI to explore the technical, ethical, & environmental challenges of deploying reliable, fair, and sustainable AI systems.
📅 Mar 6
📍 Paris/Hybrid
🔗 https://bit.ly/4bMMiME
@elliot-eu.bsky.social · @horizonenfield.bsky.social
📅 Mar 6
📍 Paris/Hybrid
🔗 https://bit.ly/4bMMiME
@elliot-eu.bsky.social · @horizonenfield.bsky.social
@KL_Div repost after @hanshengchen acknowledge a connection 1/4 🧵
"Thanks for pointing out the similarity between drifting and Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation!
I worked out the mathematical connection - the crux is that drifting fields are similar to the gradient of a soft version of the
"Thanks for pointing out the similarity between drifting and Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation!
I worked out the mathematical connection - the crux is that drifting fields are similar to the gradient of a soft version of the
Sergio Charles @eigentopology 1/10
"Thread: Drifting Models - The Math Behind Training-Time Evolution 🧵
New paradigm for generative modeling from Kaiming He's team. Let's break down the mathematics.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770
...
"Thread: Drifting Models - The Math Behind Training-Time Evolution 🧵
New paradigm for generative modeling from Kaiming He's team. Let's break down the mathematics.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770
...
Generative Modeling via Drifting
Generative modeling can be formulated as learning a mapping f such that its pushforward distribution matches the data distribution. The pushforward behavior can be carried out iteratively at inference...
arxiv.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 AM
@KL_Div repost after @hanshengchen acknowledge a connection 1/4 🧵
"Thanks for pointing out the similarity between drifting and Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation!
I worked out the mathematical connection - the crux is that drifting fields are similar to the gradient of a soft version of the
"Thanks for pointing out the similarity between drifting and Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation!
I worked out the mathematical connection - the crux is that drifting fields are similar to the gradient of a soft version of the
@isskoro 1/5 🧵
"The recent Drifting Models paper from Kaiming's group got very hyped as a new generative modeling paradigm, but it's basically a scaled-up/generalized version of 2015 GMMN (authors acknowledge this in App. C.2 — GMMN = Drifting for particular kernel). Very skeptical about
...
"The recent Drifting Models paper from Kaiming's group got very hyped as a new generative modeling paradigm, but it's basically a scaled-up/generalized version of 2015 GMMN (authors acknowledge this in App. C.2 — GMMN = Drifting for particular kernel). Very skeptical about
...
Sergio Charles @eigentopology 1/10
"Thread: Drifting Models - The Math Behind Training-Time Evolution 🧵
New paradigm for generative modeling from Kaiming He's team. Let's break down the mathematics.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770
...
"Thread: Drifting Models - The Math Behind Training-Time Evolution 🧵
New paradigm for generative modeling from Kaiming He's team. Let's break down the mathematics.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770
...
Generative Modeling via Drifting
Generative modeling can be formulated as learning a mapping f such that its pushforward distribution matches the data distribution. The pushforward behavior can be carried out iteratively at inference...
arxiv.org
February 10, 2026 at 6:53 AM
@isskoro 1/5 🧵
"The recent Drifting Models paper from Kaiming's group got very hyped as a new generative modeling paradigm, but it's basically a scaled-up/generalized version of 2015 GMMN (authors acknowledge this in App. C.2 — GMMN = Drifting for particular kernel). Very skeptical about
...
"The recent Drifting Models paper from Kaiming's group got very hyped as a new generative modeling paradigm, but it's basically a scaled-up/generalized version of 2015 GMMN (authors acknowledge this in App. C.2 — GMMN = Drifting for particular kernel). Very skeptical about
...
Today I woke up with a sentiment particularly from far right/left & against institutions 🇪🇺
😡🤬🙃
😡🤬🙃
February 10, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Today I woke up with a sentiment particularly from far right/left & against institutions 🇪🇺
😡🤬🙃
😡🤬🙃
Sergio Charles @eigentopology 1/10
"Thread: Drifting Models - The Math Behind Training-Time Evolution 🧵
New paradigm for generative modeling from Kaiming He's team. Let's break down the mathematics.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770
...
"Thread: Drifting Models - The Math Behind Training-Time Evolution 🧵
New paradigm for generative modeling from Kaiming He's team. Let's break down the mathematics.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770
...
Generative Modeling via Drifting
Generative modeling can be formulated as learning a mapping f such that its pushforward distribution matches the data distribution. The pushforward behavior can be carried out iteratively at inference...
arxiv.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Sergio Charles @eigentopology 1/10
"Thread: Drifting Models - The Math Behind Training-Time Evolution 🧵
New paradigm for generative modeling from Kaiming He's team. Let's break down the mathematics.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770
...
"Thread: Drifting Models - The Math Behind Training-Time Evolution 🧵
New paradigm for generative modeling from Kaiming He's team. Let's break down the mathematics.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770
...
(according to you) What's the most enticing driver behind humanity pursuing AGI?
📽️ Sci-fi
🧞♂️ Spiritual
🧪 Science & Eng ~= Maker
❌ None ~= nihilism/realism
💬 ...
📽️ Sci-fi
🧞♂️ Spiritual
🧪 Science & Eng ~= Maker
❌ None ~= nihilism/realism
💬 ...
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 AM
(according to you) What's the most enticing driver behind humanity pursuing AGI?
📽️ Sci-fi
🧞♂️ Spiritual
🧪 Science & Eng ~= Maker
❌ None ~= nihilism/realism
💬 ...
📽️ Sci-fi
🧞♂️ Spiritual
🧪 Science & Eng ~= Maker
❌ None ~= nihilism/realism
💬 ...
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A bit late due to the flu 😅 but still very worth sharing: China open source highlights for January 2026🔥
huggingface.co/collections/...
huggingface.co/collections/...
2026 January⛄️ - China Open Source Highlights - a zh-ai-community Collection
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
February 9, 2026 at 10:04 PM
A bit late due to the flu 😅 but still very worth sharing: China open source highlights for January 2026🔥
huggingface.co/collections/...
huggingface.co/collections/...
📢 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔: @cvprconference.bsky.social 2026 Workshop on AI for Creative Visual Content Generation, Editing, and Understanding (CVEU)!
We are thrilled to invite submissions to the 9th installment of the CVEU workshop at CVPR 2026 in Denver!
We are thrilled to invite submissions to the 9th installment of the CVEU workshop at CVPR 2026 in Denver!
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
📢 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔: @cvprconference.bsky.social 2026 Workshop on AI for Creative Visual Content Generation, Editing, and Understanding (CVEU)!
We are thrilled to invite submissions to the 9th installment of the CVEU workshop at CVPR 2026 in Denver!
We are thrilled to invite submissions to the 9th installment of the CVEU workshop at CVPR 2026 in Denver!
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Bubble Crasher (S05E19)
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Bubble Crasher (S05E19)
Reposted by Victor Escorcia
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Reposted by Victor Escorcia
I'm thinking of building a logged in version of the For You playground: linklonk.com/bluesky
It could have some personal stats and settings.
What would you like to see/do on that page?
It could have some personal stats and settings.
What would you like to see/do on that page?
Bluesky "For You" feed playground
linklonk.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I'm thinking of building a logged in version of the For You playground: linklonk.com/bluesky
It could have some personal stats and settings.
What would you like to see/do on that page?
It could have some personal stats and settings.
What would you like to see/do on that page?
@yaroslavvb.bsky.social 1/3 🧵
"People ask me what I think about AGI. I think modern AGI discourse defies the voice of reason. Thankful to 5-hour "walks" with Ian Goodfellow and Shubho Sengupta that motivated me to put this down, had a lot of fun writing this essay...
speakerdeck.com/yaroslavvb/g...
"People ask me what I think about AGI. I think modern AGI discourse defies the voice of reason. Thankful to 5-hour "walks" with Ian Goodfellow and Shubho Sengupta that motivated me to put this down, had a lot of fun writing this essay...
speakerdeck.com/yaroslavvb/g...
God_Gold_and_GPUs.pdf
speakerdeck.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
@yaroslavvb.bsky.social 1/3 🧵
"People ask me what I think about AGI. I think modern AGI discourse defies the voice of reason. Thankful to 5-hour "walks" with Ian Goodfellow and Shubho Sengupta that motivated me to put this down, had a lot of fun writing this essay...
speakerdeck.com/yaroslavvb/g...
"People ask me what I think about AGI. I think modern AGI discourse defies the voice of reason. Thankful to 5-hour "walks" with Ian Goodfellow and Shubho Sengupta that motivated me to put this down, had a lot of fun writing this essay...
speakerdeck.com/yaroslavvb/g...
@JitendraMalikCV:
"It's great to see the excitement these days about world models and their applications in robotics. World models predate deep learning, and if you're curious, here's my history talk starting from Craik (1943) & Kalman (1960)"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4k...
"It's great to see the excitement these days about world models and their applications in robotics. World models predate deep learning, and if you're curious, here's my history talk starting from Craik (1943) & Kalman (1960)"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4k...
2748 Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision
YouTube video by ComputerVisionFoundation Videos
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:07 AM
@JitendraMalikCV:
"It's great to see the excitement these days about world models and their applications in robotics. World models predate deep learning, and if you're curious, here's my history talk starting from Craik (1943) & Kalman (1960)"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4k...
"It's great to see the excitement these days about world models and their applications in robotics. World models predate deep learning, and if you're curious, here's my history talk starting from Craik (1943) & Kalman (1960)"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4k...
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@mariaa.bsky.social and I have been building a custom client that we'd like to make public in the near-term BUT we want to make sure we've gotten the security right. Anyone with some expertise open to helping us out a bit?
February 8, 2026 at 3:34 AM
@mariaa.bsky.social and I have been building a custom client that we'd like to make public in the near-term BUT we want to make sure we've gotten the security right. Anyone with some expertise open to helping us out a bit?
In the attention economy, learning whether -> when -> how to engage is a crucial human skill
It still seems fairly distasteful to have bots pretending to be human and to have feelings
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 AM
In the attention economy, learning whether -> when -> how to engage is a crucial human skill
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The #ECCV2026 Call for Workshop Proposals is now posted!
Workshop call: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
Workshop call: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
February 7, 2026 at 8:52 AM
The #ECCV2026 Call for Workshop Proposals is now posted!
Workshop call: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
Workshop call: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
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February 7, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Considering to submit a workshop proposal for #ECCV2026, you?
Guess & help me prioritizing
🅰️ topic of a fellowship, if awarded.
🅱️ topic that researchers complaint more often than they praise.
📽️ Easy guess. 2nd Hint: we got half-day in #CVPR2026 🇺🇸. Hence mostly for nurturing our 🇪🇺 community.
Guess & help me prioritizing
🅰️ topic of a fellowship, if awarded.
🅱️ topic that researchers complaint more often than they praise.
📽️ Easy guess. 2nd Hint: we got half-day in #CVPR2026 🇺🇸. Hence mostly for nurturing our 🇪🇺 community.
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
This!
The dirtiest part of the peer review process in top-tier Computer Vision conf is perhaps the discussion phase. Is it still not transparent?
The 2nd one, the meta-review.
Authors often complain about Rs, but given the lack of transparency, Isn’t it fair to split that difference with ACs?
The dirtiest part of the peer review process in top-tier Computer Vision conf is perhaps the discussion phase. Is it still not transparent?
The 2nd one, the meta-review.
Authors often complain about Rs, but given the lack of transparency, Isn’t it fair to split that difference with ACs?
If the reviewers were interested in the papers, they would be interested in discussing them. This is the main problem in my opinion. :)
February 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This!
The dirtiest part of the peer review process in top-tier Computer Vision conf is perhaps the discussion phase. Is it still not transparent?
The 2nd one, the meta-review.
Authors often complain about Rs, but given the lack of transparency, Isn’t it fair to split that difference with ACs?
The dirtiest part of the peer review process in top-tier Computer Vision conf is perhaps the discussion phase. Is it still not transparent?
The 2nd one, the meta-review.
Authors often complain about Rs, but given the lack of transparency, Isn’t it fair to split that difference with ACs?
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I'm reviewing four papers. Three of them have a rebuttal. I wrote down my thoughts regarding the rebuttal for each. Across the three papers, one single (out of six) other reviewer has responded to the rebuttal.
Reviewing for CVPR is sadly very boring.
February 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I'm reviewing four papers. Three of them have a rebuttal. I wrote down my thoughts regarding the rebuttal for each. Across the three papers, one single (out of six) other reviewer has responded to the rebuttal.
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Did you learn differential privacy (in part or in whole) from my course? Either the videos, lecture notes, or some combination? Please send me a DM or an email, I'm trying to gather some info.
(In case you missed it, here's the course: www.gautamkamath.com/CS860-fa2020..., ft full notes & videos)
(In case you missed it, here's the course: www.gautamkamath.com/CS860-fa2020..., ft full notes & videos)
CS 860 - Algorithms for Private Data Analysis- Fall 2020
www.gautamkamath.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Did you learn differential privacy (in part or in whole) from my course? Either the videos, lecture notes, or some combination? Please send me a DM or an email, I'm trying to gather some info.
(In case you missed it, here's the course: www.gautamkamath.com/CS860-fa2020..., ft full notes & videos)
(In case you missed it, here's the course: www.gautamkamath.com/CS860-fa2020..., ft full notes & videos)
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📢 Fully funded PhD - 🌍 Dense Detection of Rare Events in Remote Sensing using Generative Models
Leverage generative models, unsupervised segmentation and explainability techniques to map disasters
w/ @javi-castillo.bsky.social and Flora Weissgerber
Apply ⤵️
recrutement.cnes.fr/fr/annonce/4...
Leverage generative models, unsupervised segmentation and explainability techniques to map disasters
w/ @javi-castillo.bsky.social and Flora Weissgerber
Apply ⤵️
recrutement.cnes.fr/fr/annonce/4...
26-252 Dense Detection of Rare Events in Remote Sensing Using Generative Models
Offre d’emploi 26-252 Dense Detection of Rare Events in Remote Sensing Using Generative Models au CNES à 75003 Paris !
recrutement.cnes.fr
February 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
📢 Fully funded PhD - 🌍 Dense Detection of Rare Events in Remote Sensing using Generative Models
Leverage generative models, unsupervised segmentation and explainability techniques to map disasters
w/ @javi-castillo.bsky.social and Flora Weissgerber
Apply ⤵️
recrutement.cnes.fr/fr/annonce/4...
Leverage generative models, unsupervised segmentation and explainability techniques to map disasters
w/ @javi-castillo.bsky.social and Flora Weissgerber
Apply ⤵️
recrutement.cnes.fr/fr/annonce/4...
@chanwoopark.bsky.social 1/4 🧵
"Unpopular opinion: If any researchers are going to be replaced by AI, AI researchers will be the first.
We’re already watching software engineering get automated at a rapid pace. What comes next seems to split into two directions:
(1) replacing human labor in ...
"Unpopular opinion: If any researchers are going to be replaced by AI, AI researchers will be the first.
We’re already watching software engineering get automated at a rapid pace. What comes next seems to split into two directions:
(1) replacing human labor in ...
February 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
@chanwoopark.bsky.social 1/4 🧵
"Unpopular opinion: If any researchers are going to be replaced by AI, AI researchers will be the first.
We’re already watching software engineering get automated at a rapid pace. What comes next seems to split into two directions:
(1) replacing human labor in ...
"Unpopular opinion: If any researchers are going to be replaced by AI, AI researchers will be the first.
We’re already watching software engineering get automated at a rapid pace. What comes next seems to split into two directions:
(1) replacing human labor in ...
@alphaxiv.org 1/2 🧵
"Following Google's Genie 3, Ant Group released an open source alternative: LingBot-World!
This video trained world model can also be steered like a game (WASD + camera), with sub-1s latency at 16fps in its real-time setup, and demonstrates coherent rollouts up to ...
"Following Google's Genie 3, Ant Group released an open source alternative: LingBot-World!
This video trained world model can also be steered like a game (WASD + camera), with sub-1s latency at 16fps in its real-time setup, and demonstrates coherent rollouts up to ...
February 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
@alphaxiv.org 1/2 🧵
"Following Google's Genie 3, Ant Group released an open source alternative: LingBot-World!
This video trained world model can also be steered like a game (WASD + camera), with sub-1s latency at 16fps in its real-time setup, and demonstrates coherent rollouts up to ...
"Following Google's Genie 3, Ant Group released an open source alternative: LingBot-World!
This video trained world model can also be steered like a game (WASD + camera), with sub-1s latency at 16fps in its real-time setup, and demonstrates coherent rollouts up to ...