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Mário Figueiredo
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Distinguished Professor of ECE and Feedzai Professor of machine learning @istecnico.bsky.social.

Professor, photographer, music lover, curious about almost everything.
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From July 19–25, ~140 international Master’s and PhD students join the @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social 🇵🇹 Machine Learning Summer School for a week of NLP-focused lectures, posters, and hands-on sessions, led by top international speakers.

Held at @istecnico.bsky.social

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July 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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beenwrekt.bsky.social
Fully open machine learning requires not only GPU access but a community commitment to openness. (Some nostalgic lessons from the ImageNet decade.)
An open mindset
The commitments required for fully open source machine learning
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July 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Excited to be part of the Cramér Society’s virtual mini-conference next Monday (13:00–16:00), alongside @marfig.bsky.social, @mathurinmassias.bsky.social, @mansmag.bsky.social, and Ulrike Schneider! Hope you’ll join us!

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#statsky #statistics
Mini-conference on "Optimization and algorithms in sparse regression" | Statistikfrämjandet
This years winner of the Cramér prize for best doctoral thesis in statistics/mathematical statistics is Johan Larsson (LU), with his thesis Optimizatio ...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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istecnico.bsky.social
“Simple portable quantum key distribution for science outreach”, authored by Técnico researchers, features on the front cover of the 1st edition of the 2025 American Journal of Physics.

🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/y73spxhk

#TécnicoLisboa #ULisboa
March 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Our upcoming #AISTATS2025 paper is out: “Sparse Activations as Conformal Predictors” with Margarida Campos, João Calém, Sophia Sklaviadis, and
@marfig.bsky.social:

arxiv.org/abs/2502.14773.

This paper puts together two lines of research, dynamic sparsity and conformal prediction. 🧵
March 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social
📢 Applications to the 15th Lisbon Machine Learning School 2025 are open!

Covering #ML topics such as neural networks, transformers, causality, vision & language.

📅 Dates: 19th - 25th of July

🔗 more info: lxmls.it.pt/2025/index.h...

🔗 apply by 28th April here: tinyurl.com/mre5as8f
February 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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@andre-t-martins.bsky.social talking about multilingual LLMs at the @priberam.bsky.social Machine Learning Lunch Seminar in @istecnico.bsky.social,
@ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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alexfig.bsky.social
check out our new paper in ISME! if you're a microbe, is it about who you are or how you get along with others? Find out! 👇
February 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
marfig.bsky.social
I am honored (and thankful for the invitation) to be a keynote speaker at GSI'25.

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Frédéric Barbaresco on LinkedIn: SEE GSI'25 "Geometric Science of Information" Keynote speakers Mario…
SEE GSI'25 "Geometric Science of Information" Keynote speakers Mario Figueiredo Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de…
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February 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
marfig.bsky.social
Agradável conversa sobre IA, com o Carlos Fiolhais e o Gonçalo M. Tavares, a quem agradeço o convite, no programa Astrolábio do canal Now.

www.nowcanal.pt/programas/as...
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January 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
The bigotry and white supremacy is right out there in the open, impossible to ignore for anyone paying attention. A lot of people are revealing a lot about themselves by supporting this.
nicolefcarr.bsky.social Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · Jan 25
The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.

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January 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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My beautiful cat thinking about some big idea that she learned from @seanmcarroll.bsky.social's excellent book.
December 20, 2024 at 9:17 AM
marfig.bsky.social
"...the cognitive equivalent of high-fructose corn syrup."
Excellent piece by Neil Lawrence.
lawrennd.bsky.social Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social · Dec 18
18/25 A Retrospective on System Zero.

Today we look at Dan Andrew's image from Chapter 8, System Zero and also take a look back at my original blog post from 9 years ago and see how its predictions bore out.

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December 18, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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pkrugman.bsky.social
Having nonsense views about the dollar and the trade balance: easy.

Having nonsense views that are mutually contradictory: that takes talent

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/from-exorb...
From Exorbitant Privilege to Invincible Ignorance
Arithmetic has a well-known globalist bias
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December 13, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Excellent talk by @alisongopnik.bsky.social
at CogSci 2024, after receiving the Rumelhat prize.

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December 13, 2024 at 12:37 PM
marfig.bsky.social
"all use of technology is the exercise of power"
Hans Jonas
December 7, 2024 at 12:21 AM
marfig.bsky.social
The final version of our survey on conformal prediction for NLP has now been published in TACL: direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...
Conformal Prediction for Natural Language Processing: A Survey
Abstract. The rapid proliferation of large language models and natural language processing (NLP) applications creates a crucial need for uncertainty quantification to mitigate risks such as Hallucinat...
direct.mit.edu
December 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM