Igor Gilitschenski
@igilitschenski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UofT.
Together with our brilliant graduate researcher Ziyi Wu and our fantastic undergrad, Brayden Zhang, we had a wonderful time at #ICCV2025!
October 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Together with our brilliant graduate researcher Ziyi Wu and our fantastic undergrad, Brayden Zhang, we had a wonderful time at #ICCV2025!
Interesting @anthropic.com work on LLM poisoning. I'd argue that the glass is half full, and this can be interpreted as a positive result: Regardless of model size, the same number of samples seems to be sufficient to learn a new "skill". www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models
www.anthropic.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Interesting @anthropic.com work on LLM poisoning. I'd argue that the glass is half full, and this can be interpreted as a positive result: Regardless of model size, the same number of samples seems to be sufficient to learn a new "skill". www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
Excited to have been appointed as a faculty member at @vectorinstitute.ai. 🎉 This would not have been possible without the amazing work of my collaborators and the brilliant students in my group within @uoftcompsci.bsky.social. We all look forward to deepening ties with the Vector community. ❤️
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Excited to have been appointed as a faculty member at @vectorinstitute.ai. 🎉 This would not have been possible without the amazing work of my collaborators and the brilliant students in my group within @uoftcompsci.bsky.social. We all look forward to deepening ties with the Vector community. ❤️
Want to help train the next generation of leaders, researchers, and innovators in CS? We are looking for teaching stream faculty to join us at @uoftcompsci.bsky.social. Check out our job posting and join a team of brilliant colleagues and amazing students. 🇨🇦❤️💻 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30410
University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science
Job #AJO30410, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CA
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October 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Want to help train the next generation of leaders, researchers, and innovators in CS? We are looking for teaching stream faculty to join us at @uoftcompsci.bsky.social. Check out our job posting and join a team of brilliant colleagues and amazing students. 🇨🇦❤️💻 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30410
Proud German advisor moment: Discovered a pair of Birkenstocks under a grad student's desk.
September 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Proud German advisor moment: Discovered a pair of Birkenstocks under a grad student's desk.
Reposted by Igor Gilitschenski
Would you be surprised to learn that many empirical implementations of value-aware model learning (VAML) algos, including MuZero, lead to incorrect model & value functions when training stochastic models 🤕? In our new @icmlconf.bsky.social 2025 paper, we show why this happens and how to fix it 🦾!
June 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Would you be surprised to learn that many empirical implementations of value-aware model learning (VAML) algos, including MuZero, lead to incorrect model & value functions when training stochastic models 🤕? In our new @icmlconf.bsky.social 2025 paper, we show why this happens and how to fix it 🦾!
Thrilled to share the work that our lab will present at
@cvprconference.bsky.social. Check out the papers and meet @kai-he.bsky.social, @yashkant.bsky.social, @dazitu616.bsky.social, and Toshiya Yura in Nashville at their poster sessions!
@cvprconference.bsky.social. Check out the papers and meet @kai-he.bsky.social, @yashkant.bsky.social, @dazitu616.bsky.social, and Toshiya Yura in Nashville at their poster sessions!
June 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thrilled to share the work that our lab will present at
@cvprconference.bsky.social. Check out the papers and meet @kai-he.bsky.social, @yashkant.bsky.social, @dazitu616.bsky.social, and Toshiya Yura in Nashville at their poster sessions!
@cvprconference.bsky.social. Check out the papers and meet @kai-he.bsky.social, @yashkant.bsky.social, @dazitu616.bsky.social, and Toshiya Yura in Nashville at their poster sessions!
Ai4Science is doing a great job at applying AI to accurately model physics for one (or a few) phenomena at a time. Video models sacrifice such accuracy in favour of huge diversity. The big challenge for robot learning researchers is to strike a balance between these two.
June 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Ai4Science is doing a great job at applying AI to accurately model physics for one (or a few) phenomena at a time. Video models sacrifice such accuracy in favour of huge diversity. The big challenge for robot learning researchers is to strike a balance between these two.
In Germany, there is a tradition of creating funny hats for doctoral graduates. 🎓 @cvoelcker.bsky.social brought this tradition to my group and, together with Umangi Jain, spearheaded the construction of a masterpiece for our first PhD graduate, @ashmrz.bsky.social. 1/2
May 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In Germany, there is a tradition of creating funny hats for doctoral graduates. 🎓 @cvoelcker.bsky.social brought this tradition to my group and, together with Umangi Jain, spearheaded the construction of a masterpiece for our first PhD graduate, @ashmrz.bsky.social. 1/2
Compared to huge budget cuts, barring Harvard from enrolling any international students may seem unimportant. The opposite is true. Graduate students are the primary generators of research. Staying world-class requires the world's brightest minds.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Compared to huge budget cuts, barring Harvard from enrolling any international students may seem unimportant. The opposite is true. Graduate students are the primary generators of research. Staying world-class requires the world's brightest minds.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
Today is one of the most exciting days of my academic career: my first PhD student graduated. 🎉 Huge congrats, @ashmrz.bsky.social! 🥂 I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked with you and could not have wished for a better start. 🚀 1/4
May 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Today is one of the most exciting days of my academic career: my first PhD student graduated. 🎉 Huge congrats, @ashmrz.bsky.social! 🥂 I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked with you and could not have wished for a better start. 🚀 1/4
Great meeting @sramamoorthy.bsky.social and David Richardson from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Great meeting @sramamoorthy.bsky.social and David Richardson from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Congrats on your election victory, @liberalca.bsky.social and @mark-carney.bsky.social! If I had one wish for Canada's new government, it would be this: stop delaying visas and make it easier for the world's top scientists, including research-focused graduate students, to come to Canada. 🍁
April 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Congrats on your election victory, @liberalca.bsky.social and @mark-carney.bsky.social! If I had one wish for Canada's new government, it would be this: stop delaying visas and make it easier for the world's top scientists, including research-focused graduate students, to come to Canada. 🍁
Perfect time to catch up on some missed-out reading.
April 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Perfect time to catch up on some missed-out reading.
A rare sighting of @csprofkgd.bsky.social, showing his students some cool @vscode.dev productivity hacks.
April 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A rare sighting of @csprofkgd.bsky.social, showing his students some cool @vscode.dev productivity hacks.
Ending the #RSS AC meeting on a high note with @mgb45.bsky.social, Rudolf Lioutikov, Jana Tumova, and Abhinav Valada. Can’t wait to see all of you again soon!
April 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Ending the #RSS AC meeting on a high note with @mgb45.bsky.social, Rudolf Lioutikov, Jana Tumova, and Abhinav Valada. Can’t wait to see all of you again soon!
Excited to attend the RSS AC meeting for the first time. It’s held at #MIT this year. Great organization by @lucacarlone.bsky.social!
April 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Excited to attend the RSS AC meeting for the first time. It’s held at #MIT this year. Great organization by @lucacarlone.bsky.social!
Spotted @csprofkgd.bsky.social trying out his (new?) "AR" glasses at @vectorinstitute.ai. Being a prof in Computer Vision is hard work.
April 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Spotted @csprofkgd.bsky.social trying out his (new?) "AR" glasses at @vectorinstitute.ai. Being a prof in Computer Vision is hard work.
When you board the plane, and find your
@uoft.bsky.social CS colleague sitting next to you. Great connecting with you for the first time in person, Bo Wang!
@uoft.bsky.social CS colleague sitting next to you. Great connecting with you for the first time in person, Bo Wang!
March 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
When you board the plane, and find your
@uoft.bsky.social CS colleague sitting next to you. Great connecting with you for the first time in person, Bo Wang!
@uoft.bsky.social CS colleague sitting next to you. Great connecting with you for the first time in person, Bo Wang!
Our newest "robot" has arrived. 🎉
March 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Our newest "robot" has arrived. 🎉
Reposted by Igor Gilitschenski
In case somebody needs older algorithms in a new dress, I open sourced my jax implementation of MBPO. It also contains my own vagram algorithm
github.com/cvoelcker/ja...
github.com/cvoelcker/ja...
GitHub - cvoelcker/jax_mbpo: A jax-based reimplementation of MBPO
A jax-based reimplementation of MBPO. Contribute to cvoelcker/jax_mbpo development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In case somebody needs older algorithms in a new dress, I open sourced my jax implementation of MBPO. It also contains my own vagram algorithm
github.com/cvoelcker/ja...
github.com/cvoelcker/ja...
Learning the hard way why people who switched to fish complain that incompatibility to bash can be a real issue. I'd still argue that the benefits outweigh the costs, but maybe this is just my stubbornness.
March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Learning the hard way why people who switched to fish complain that incompatibility to bash can be a real issue. I'd still argue that the benefits outweigh the costs, but maybe this is just my stubbornness.
I am excited to share that my students @kai-he.bsky.social, @yashkant.bsky.social, Ziyi Wu, and Toshiya Yura, our previous research visitor from Sony, will present papers at #CVPR2025. 🎉 Check out their amazing work! 1/🧵
March 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I am excited to share that my students @kai-he.bsky.social, @yashkant.bsky.social, Ziyi Wu, and Toshiya Yura, our previous research visitor from Sony, will present papers at #CVPR2025. 🎉 Check out their amazing work! 1/🧵
Reposted by Igor Gilitschenski
In NAVSIM #NeurIPS24, we use simulation metrics for end-to-end driving by unrolling BEV abstractions of scenes for a few seconds. The result? Open-loop evaluation that is better aligned with closed-loop evaluation compared to traditional open loop metrics. github.com/autonomousvi...
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
In NAVSIM #NeurIPS24, we use simulation metrics for end-to-end driving by unrolling BEV abstractions of scenes for a few seconds. The result? Open-loop evaluation that is better aligned with closed-loop evaluation compared to traditional open loop metrics. github.com/autonomousvi...
Young Assistant Prof at his first faculty meeting before he learned that he is not at a hire-to-tenure institution.
February 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Young Assistant Prof at his first faculty meeting before he learned that he is not at a hire-to-tenure institution.