Shadab Choudhury
@namer.bsky.social
(He/Him). Previously at LARA Lab @UMBC, Mohsin Lab @BRACU | Accessibility, Explainability and Multimodal DL. My opinions are mine.
I'm on the PhD application cycle for Fall '26!
www.shadabchy.com
I'm on the PhD application cycle for Fall '26!
www.shadabchy.com
It was great listening to Dr's Ishtiaque, Ferdous, and Sultana talk about their experiences!
There's a *lot* of HCI work to be done in the scope of Bangladesh, and IMO not enough folks working on them, so HCCS should be a great addition. Looking forward to the work soon to come out of the lab.
There's a *lot* of HCI work to be done in the scope of Bangladesh, and IMO not enough folks working on them, so HCCS should be a great addition. Looking forward to the work soon to come out of the lab.
January 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM
It was great listening to Dr's Ishtiaque, Ferdous, and Sultana talk about their experiences!
There's a *lot* of HCI work to be done in the scope of Bangladesh, and IMO not enough folks working on them, so HCCS should be a great addition. Looking forward to the work soon to come out of the lab.
There's a *lot* of HCI work to be done in the scope of Bangladesh, and IMO not enough folks working on them, so HCCS should be a great addition. Looking forward to the work soon to come out of the lab.
lowkey I appreciate folks aren't posting linkedinisms like "In 2025 I achieved X, Y, Z" this time around.
It's fine to celebrate your wins, but I imagine for most people, 2025 was...
A Year.
...and I think that's all that needs to be said.
It's fine to celebrate your wins, but I imagine for most people, 2025 was...
A Year.
...and I think that's all that needs to be said.
January 2, 2026 at 11:56 PM
lowkey I appreciate folks aren't posting linkedinisms like "In 2025 I achieved X, Y, Z" this time around.
It's fine to celebrate your wins, but I imagine for most people, 2025 was...
A Year.
...and I think that's all that needs to be said.
It's fine to celebrate your wins, but I imagine for most people, 2025 was...
A Year.
...and I think that's all that needs to be said.
Seen on LinkedIn.
How does someone raise $5 million and then write job ads like this?
smh...
How does someone raise $5 million and then write job ads like this?
smh...
December 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Seen on LinkedIn.
How does someone raise $5 million and then write job ads like this?
smh...
How does someone raise $5 million and then write job ads like this?
smh...
In the mid 2010s biology folks figured out how to do human gene editing. The community took one look, realized the consequences would be so dire for humanity, and put a hard stop to it. People like Jiankui He were excoriated for illegally editing embryos.
Why wasn't this the case with GenAI?
Why wasn't this the case with GenAI?
December 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In the mid 2010s biology folks figured out how to do human gene editing. The community took one look, realized the consequences would be so dire for humanity, and put a hard stop to it. People like Jiankui He were excoriated for illegally editing embryos.
Why wasn't this the case with GenAI?
Why wasn't this the case with GenAI?
How was no one talking about this?* IJCAI-ECAI 2026 @ijcai.org levying a $100 fee per submission unless every author on the paper is only on that one submitted paper.
* rhetorical question. I assume the ICLR drama drowned it
* rhetorical question. I assume the ICLR drama drowned it
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
How was no one talking about this?* IJCAI-ECAI 2026 @ijcai.org levying a $100 fee per submission unless every author on the paper is only on that one submitted paper.
* rhetorical question. I assume the ICLR drama drowned it
* rhetorical question. I assume the ICLR drama drowned it
Case in point.
Good grief.
Good grief.
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Case in point.
Good grief.
Good grief.
Took me about 5 minutes to dig out the identity of the 40 questions reviewer — after someone posted it on the other site; I dunno how to search Xiaohongshu directly.
Honestly, I don't think western academics are going to feel a fraction of the shitstorm that the Chinese ML community's probably in.
Honestly, I don't think western academics are going to feel a fraction of the shitstorm that the Chinese ML community's probably in.
OpenReview had a bug that allowed crawling reviewer names for ICLR (and apparently for all previous and ongoing conferences), and it had been known since Nov 12 ................
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Took me about 5 minutes to dig out the identity of the 40 questions reviewer — after someone posted it on the other site; I dunno how to search Xiaohongshu directly.
Honestly, I don't think western academics are going to feel a fraction of the shitstorm that the Chinese ML community's probably in.
Honestly, I don't think western academics are going to feel a fraction of the shitstorm that the Chinese ML community's probably in.
many such cases
Simpsons-tier prescience
Simpsons-tier prescience
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
many such cases
Simpsons-tier prescience
Simpsons-tier prescience
There's a reviewer at ICLR who apparently always writes *exactly* 40 weaknesses and comments no matter what paper he's reviewing.
Exhibit A: openreview.net/forum?id=8qk...
Exhibit B: openreview.net/forum?id=GlX...
Exhibit C: openreview.net/forum?id=kDh...
Exhibit A: openreview.net/forum?id=8qk...
Exhibit B: openreview.net/forum?id=GlX...
Exhibit C: openreview.net/forum?id=kDh...
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There's a reviewer at ICLR who apparently always writes *exactly* 40 weaknesses and comments no matter what paper he's reviewing.
Exhibit A: openreview.net/forum?id=8qk...
Exhibit B: openreview.net/forum?id=GlX...
Exhibit C: openreview.net/forum?id=kDh...
Exhibit A: openreview.net/forum?id=8qk...
Exhibit B: openreview.net/forum?id=GlX...
Exhibit C: openreview.net/forum?id=kDh...
Saw an insanely cool paper (Weihao Tan @ NTU (sg) plus Bytedance and PekingU collabs) on the other site: a VLM agent pretrained on human gameplay videos + action primitives can fully play video games.
Very impressive work, esp. the inference process.
www.lumine-ai.org
arxiv.org/abs/2511.08892
Very impressive work, esp. the inference process.
www.lumine-ai.org
arxiv.org/abs/2511.08892
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Saw an insanely cool paper (Weihao Tan @ NTU (sg) plus Bytedance and PekingU collabs) on the other site: a VLM agent pretrained on human gameplay videos + action primitives can fully play video games.
Very impressive work, esp. the inference process.
www.lumine-ai.org
arxiv.org/abs/2511.08892
Very impressive work, esp. the inference process.
www.lumine-ai.org
arxiv.org/abs/2511.08892
Reposted by Shadab Choudhury
*Urgently* looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR October Interpretability track 🙏🙏
ReSkies much appreciated
ReSkies much appreciated
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
*Urgently* looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR October Interpretability track 🙏🙏
ReSkies much appreciated
ReSkies much appreciated
It feels funny that publishing in NeurIPS has become such a mild signal of quality that people are now promoting the exact percentile ranking of their papers instead.
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It feels funny that publishing in NeurIPS has become such a mild signal of quality that people are now promoting the exact percentile ranking of their papers instead.
Is OpenReview gonna go down for 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 major conference from now on?
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Is OpenReview gonna go down for 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 major conference from now on?
How much do instruction-tuning datasets (e.g. Alpaca, Dolly) resemble everyday LLM usage?
It's a bit of a weirdly basic question, but I'm not up to date with instruction tuning. (I'm looking at model-agnostic single-turn Prompt-Response paired data, and ShareGPT is really messy and multi-turn)
It's a bit of a weirdly basic question, but I'm not up to date with instruction tuning. (I'm looking at model-agnostic single-turn Prompt-Response paired data, and ShareGPT is really messy and multi-turn)
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
How much do instruction-tuning datasets (e.g. Alpaca, Dolly) resemble everyday LLM usage?
It's a bit of a weirdly basic question, but I'm not up to date with instruction tuning. (I'm looking at model-agnostic single-turn Prompt-Response paired data, and ShareGPT is really messy and multi-turn)
It's a bit of a weirdly basic question, but I'm not up to date with instruction tuning. (I'm looking at model-agnostic single-turn Prompt-Response paired data, and ShareGPT is really messy and multi-turn)
Folks on ML socials these past few weeks.
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Folks on ML socials these past few weeks.
My dad's been watching instructional car videos and every other video he opens is utter slop.
I'm in the room and it's SO obvious to me that a video with generated images/panning stock photos and a steady, droning narration in numbered list format is slop. Even he can tell
But for how much longer?
I'm in the room and it's SO obvious to me that a video with generated images/panning stock photos and a steady, droning narration in numbered list format is slop. Even he can tell
But for how much longer?
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
My dad's been watching instructional car videos and every other video he opens is utter slop.
I'm in the room and it's SO obvious to me that a video with generated images/panning stock photos and a steady, droning narration in numbered list format is slop. Even he can tell
But for how much longer?
I'm in the room and it's SO obvious to me that a video with generated images/panning stock photos and a steady, droning narration in numbered list format is slop. Even he can tell
But for how much longer?
Recommender systems have quite literally broken younger folks' ability to search. I'm not kidding you, the average user is utterly incapable of finding content without a recommender feeding them things. That's why forums died but reddit survived as a social platform, because forums don't use recsys.
It’s frustrating LLMs are the epicenter of this because if you’re looking for a piece of tech to hate, social media recommender algorithms were *right there* and have done far, far more to break society
Tearing those down to the studs and rebuilding wouldn’t suck
Tearing those down to the studs and rebuilding wouldn’t suck
antivax movement but it’s left coded and targets machine learning, artificial intelligence, and engineering fields
October 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Recommender systems have quite literally broken younger folks' ability to search. I'm not kidding you, the average user is utterly incapable of finding content without a recommender feeding them things. That's why forums died but reddit survived as a social platform, because forums don't use recsys.
Nobody seems to have mentioned the blog post yet that dropped yesterday that 'debunks' K2-Think. Turns out, it's guilty of the classic sins of train-on-test and sketchy-comparisons.
www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/blog/k2think
www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/blog/k2think
September 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Nobody seems to have mentioned the blog post yet that dropped yesterday that 'debunks' K2-Think. Turns out, it's guilty of the classic sins of train-on-test and sketchy-comparisons.
www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/blog/k2think
www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/blog/k2think
Still boggles the mind how one of the dullest and most uninspiring pieces of Harry Potter fanfiction led to where we are today.
tpot/rationalism/effective altruism family tree in case anyone is confused
September 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Still boggles the mind how one of the dullest and most uninspiring pieces of Harry Potter fanfiction led to where we are today.
absolutely incredible
credits: u/showermusicc on reddit
credits: u/showermusicc on reddit
September 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
absolutely incredible
credits: u/showermusicc on reddit
credits: u/showermusicc on reddit
Thinking that any more than 10% of machine learning and AI research counts as 'science' is the real cope here.
the entire field of machine learning and AI research is basically verboten here due to the maniac behavior of large swathes of the left, this article feels like cope
NEW: Bluesky is becoming place to discuss scientific research - it gets more proper engagement & attention, new study finds.
For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others.
Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others.
Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
September 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Thinking that any more than 10% of machine learning and AI research counts as 'science' is the real cope here.
rip openreview
Apparently 60k+ reviews was too much to handle. Hope no one's getting desk rejected at AAAI over non-submission of revieiws.
Apparently 60k+ reviews was too much to handle. Hope no one's getting desk rejected at AAAI over non-submission of revieiws.
September 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
rip openreview
Apparently 60k+ reviews was too much to handle. Hope no one's getting desk rejected at AAAI over non-submission of revieiws.
Apparently 60k+ reviews was too much to handle. Hope no one's getting desk rejected at AAAI over non-submission of revieiws.
All these citation managers and notetaking apps and somehow I managed to fall back on a word document with my references as
<short note on where/why I'm citing this>
<url>
😮💨
Zotero's great, but at this stage of writing, adding things as I find them seems to interrupt my stream of consciousness
<short note on where/why I'm citing this>
<url>
😮💨
Zotero's great, but at this stage of writing, adding things as I find them seems to interrupt my stream of consciousness
August 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
All these citation managers and notetaking apps and somehow I managed to fall back on a word document with my references as
<short note on where/why I'm citing this>
<url>
😮💨
Zotero's great, but at this stage of writing, adding things as I find them seems to interrupt my stream of consciousness
<short note on where/why I'm citing this>
<url>
😮💨
Zotero's great, but at this stage of writing, adding things as I find them seems to interrupt my stream of consciousness
Wait, so #NeurIPS is at three different locations simultaneously this year? Well, technically two plus a semi-official satellite location.
I love the inclusivity but I'm concerned about how sustainable this is.
I love the inclusivity but I'm concerned about how sustainable this is.
July 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Wait, so #NeurIPS is at three different locations simultaneously this year? Well, technically two plus a semi-official satellite location.
I love the inclusivity but I'm concerned about how sustainable this is.
I love the inclusivity but I'm concerned about how sustainable this is.
this exists.
This is called an API.
This is called an API.
If agents actually catch on we will eventually reach a crossover point where UX is designed more for agents than humans, and humans find it unusable.
May 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
this exists.
This is called an API.
This is called an API.