Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University
@philiptorr.bsky.social
Professor Oxford in Machine Learning
Involved in many start ups including FiveAI, Onfido, Oxsight, AIStetic. Eigent, etc
I occasionally look here but am mostly on linkedin, find me there, www.linkedin.com/in/philip-torr-1085702
Involved in many start ups including FiveAI, Onfido, Oxsight, AIStetic. Eigent, etc
I occasionally look here but am mostly on linkedin, find me there, www.linkedin.com/in/philip-torr-1085702
Official annoucement here, excited to be joining this set of fellows as a Schmidt AI2050 Fellow
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Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society - Schmidt Sciences
Media Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences announced today that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit hu...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Official annoucement here, excited to be joining this set of fellows as a Schmidt AI2050 Fellow
www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-...
www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-...
this looks great, but i have the strange urge to share it without fully reading it.
Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice!
“virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”
“virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”
Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour
Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
this looks great, but i have the strange urge to share it without fully reading it.
This seems a bit like punishing the victims rather than perpetrators
July 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This seems a bit like punishing the victims rather than perpetrators
Dinner to celebrate Oxford's Deep Mind scholars with Deep Mind founder, Demis Hassabis, and new incoming PhD, Anda! Thanks to Deep Mind and Demis for generously supporting so many students.
In the beautiful Divinity school of Oxford.
In the beautiful Divinity school of Oxford.
July 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Dinner to celebrate Oxford's Deep Mind scholars with Deep Mind founder, Demis Hassabis, and new incoming PhD, Anda! Thanks to Deep Mind and Demis for generously supporting so many students.
In the beautiful Divinity school of Oxford.
In the beautiful Divinity school of Oxford.
New Ellison institute at Oxford, set to bring, 100 or 1000s of jobs, lnkd.in/e6HA-_ZP
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July 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New Ellison institute at Oxford, set to bring, 100 or 1000s of jobs, lnkd.in/e6HA-_ZP
uper happy to be one of the organizers of this, eurips.cc, now an option to officially present your papers in Europe and save greenhouse gas!!!!! Please repost and spread the word!!! Please repost!!!!
EurIPS Copenhagen 2025 - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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July 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
uper happy to be one of the organizers of this, eurips.cc, now an option to officially present your papers in Europe and save greenhouse gas!!!!! Please repost and spread the word!!! Please repost!!!!
Reposted by Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University
Co-authored with: Isaac Friend, Keir Reid, Igor Krawczuk, Vincent Wang, @jakobmokander.bsky.social kander.bsky.social , @philiptorr.bsky.social , Julia C Morse and Robert Trager
Kander (@kander.bsky.social)
Malware malbec and gummie bears!
kander.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Co-authored with: Isaac Friend, Keir Reid, Igor Krawczuk, Vincent Wang, @jakobmokander.bsky.social kander.bsky.social , @philiptorr.bsky.social , Julia C Morse and Robert Trager
As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time. | Philip Torr, FR...
As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time.
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June 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder has picked up on our paper on how to fool AI agents, you can watch her desrcibing our work here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY7_....
AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready?
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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June 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder has picked up on our paper on how to fool AI agents, you can watch her desrcibing our work here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY7_....
Reposted by Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University
Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers
Wei Pang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, @edwardjian.bsky.social, Xi He, @philiptorr.bsky.social
tl;dr: great stuff!
arxiv.org/abs/2505.21497
Wei Pang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, @edwardjian.bsky.social, Xi He, @philiptorr.bsky.social
tl;dr: great stuff!
arxiv.org/abs/2505.21497
May 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers
Wei Pang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, @edwardjian.bsky.social, Xi He, @philiptorr.bsky.social
tl;dr: great stuff!
arxiv.org/abs/2505.21497
Wei Pang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, @edwardjian.bsky.social, Xi He, @philiptorr.bsky.social
tl;dr: great stuff!
arxiv.org/abs/2505.21497
Had the privilege of speaking at Oxford Brookes graduation today, was really fun event, and inspiring to see. Amazing to see people off on their, hopefully, exciting journeys.
May 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Had the privilege of speaking at Oxford Brookes graduation today, was really fun event, and inspiring to see. Amazing to see people off on their, hopefully, exciting journeys.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Just about to speak at this to promote UK PLC! www.linkedin.com/posts/polly-...
#policy #universities #tech #researchers #professionals #ai | Polly Benjamin
📢 Are you an AI researcher or engineer looking for your next career move? Join leading UK AI business professionals and academics on a webinar on 14th May to explore the strength of the UK’s AI sector...
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May 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just about to speak at this to promote UK PLC! www.linkedin.com/posts/polly-...
research position www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
Job Details | Philip Torr
JOB!!!! Adel is amazing
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May 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
research position www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
Reposted by Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University
Read more: cemde.github.io/Domain-Certi...
Thanks to my amazing collaborators:
- @alasdair-p.bsky.social, Preetham Arvind, @maximek3.bsky.social, Tom Rainforth, @philiptorr.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk
- Bernard Ghanem at KAUST
- Thomas Lukasiewicz at @tuwien.at.
(7/7)
Thanks to my amazing collaborators:
- @alasdair-p.bsky.social, Preetham Arvind, @maximek3.bsky.social, Tom Rainforth, @philiptorr.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk
- Bernard Ghanem at KAUST
- Thomas Lukasiewicz at @tuwien.at.
(7/7)
Shh, don't say that! Domain Certification in LLMs
Domain Certification - A novel framework providing provable, adversarial defenses for LLMs safety.
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April 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Read more: cemde.github.io/Domain-Certi...
Thanks to my amazing collaborators:
- @alasdair-p.bsky.social, Preetham Arvind, @maximek3.bsky.social, Tom Rainforth, @philiptorr.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk
- Bernard Ghanem at KAUST
- Thomas Lukasiewicz at @tuwien.at.
(7/7)
Thanks to my amazing collaborators:
- @alasdair-p.bsky.social, Preetham Arvind, @maximek3.bsky.social, Tom Rainforth, @philiptorr.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk
- Bernard Ghanem at KAUST
- Thomas Lukasiewicz at @tuwien.at.
(7/7)
Cooperation on AI safety is necessary but also comes with potential risks. In our new paper, we identify technical AI safety areas that present comparatively lower security concerns, making them more suitable for international cooperation—even between geopolitical rivals. lnkd.in/e_FzCFW9
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April 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Cooperation on AI safety is necessary but also comes with potential risks. In our new paper, we identify technical AI safety areas that present comparatively lower security concerns, making them more suitable for international cooperation—even between geopolitical rivals. lnkd.in/e_FzCFW9
We will be hosting a live Q&A to discuss our project on April 10 at 11:30AM BST.
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More about the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship: encode.pillar.vc/blog-posts/f...
Encode Project Q&A – AI for Drug Discovery · Zoom · Luma
Join us for a virtual info session to learn more about the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship.
🧪 This session will feature Philip Torr, one of of our faculty…
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April 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We will be hosting a live Q&A to discuss our project on April 10 at 11:30AM BST.
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I wanted to coin the "Torr Law", which is that if you think of a research idea, it will magically appear on the internet within a few days, case in point, this is a cool first step on the way to making AI scientists paperswithcode.com/paper/bench-...
Papers with Code - @Bench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Human-centered Assistive Technology
No code available yet.
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April 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I wanted to coin the "Torr Law", which is that if you think of a research idea, it will magically appear on the internet within a few days, case in point, this is a cool first step on the way to making AI scientists paperswithcode.com/paper/bench-...
Excited to be working with the UK Excited to be work with the UK AI Security Institute, even more important than normal in these turbulent times.
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Strengthening AI Resilience | AISI Work | Philip Torr
Excited to be work with the UK AI Security Institute, even more important than normal in these turbulent times.
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April 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Excited to be working with the UK Excited to be work with the UK AI Security Institute, even more important than normal in these turbulent times.
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Reposted by Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University
📄 Dive In:
paperhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19964.
Work led by
@lovisheindrich.bsky.social
- [Lovis is in the job market, you should hire him, he is great!]
and thanks to
@philiptorr.bsky.social and @vthost.bsky.social
for advising.
paperhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19964.
Work led by
@lovisheindrich.bsky.social
- [Lovis is in the job market, you should hire him, he is great!]
and thanks to
@philiptorr.bsky.social and @vthost.bsky.social
for advising.
Do Sparse Autoencoders Generalize? A Case Study of Answerability
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising approach in language model interpretability, offering unsupervised extraction of sparse features. For interpretability methods to succeed, they m...
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March 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
📄 Dive In:
paperhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19964.
Work led by
@lovisheindrich.bsky.social
- [Lovis is in the job market, you should hire him, he is great!]
and thanks to
@philiptorr.bsky.social and @vthost.bsky.social
for advising.
paperhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19964.
Work led by
@lovisheindrich.bsky.social
- [Lovis is in the job market, you should hire him, he is great!]
and thanks to
@philiptorr.bsky.social and @vthost.bsky.social
for advising.
Reposted by Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University
🏛️ This work was made possible with OATML and TVG at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). Special thanks to @yaringal.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, and @alasdair-p.bsky.social for their contributions.
📖 Read the paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10809
📖 Read the paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10809
Attacking Multimodal OS Agents with Malicious Image Patches
Recent advances in operating system (OS) agents enable vision-language models to interact directly with the graphical user interface of an OS. These multimodal OS agents autonomously perform computer-...
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March 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🏛️ This work was made possible with OATML and TVG at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). Special thanks to @yaringal.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, and @alasdair-p.bsky.social for their contributions.
📖 Read the paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10809
📖 Read the paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10809
Reposted by Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University
Stable Virtual Camera: Generative View Synthesis with Diffusion Models
Jensen (Jinghao)Zhou, Hang Gao, Vikram Voleti, @adyaman.bsky.social, Chun-Han Yao, @markboss.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, Christian Rupprecht, Varun Jampani
arxiv.org/abs/2503.14489
Jensen (Jinghao)Zhou, Hang Gao, Vikram Voleti, @adyaman.bsky.social, Chun-Han Yao, @markboss.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, Christian Rupprecht, Varun Jampani
arxiv.org/abs/2503.14489
March 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Stable Virtual Camera: Generative View Synthesis with Diffusion Models
Jensen (Jinghao)Zhou, Hang Gao, Vikram Voleti, @adyaman.bsky.social, Chun-Han Yao, @markboss.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, Christian Rupprecht, Varun Jampani
arxiv.org/abs/2503.14489
Jensen (Jinghao)Zhou, Hang Gao, Vikram Voleti, @adyaman.bsky.social, Chun-Han Yao, @markboss.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, Christian Rupprecht, Varun Jampani
arxiv.org/abs/2503.14489
this is a great idea, having a parallel Neurips in Europe is long over due, especially as travel to the US is difficult now for a lot of scientists. Thoughts?
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NeurIPS participation in Europe | Philip Torr | 10 comments
this is a great idea, having a parallel Neurips in Europe is long over due, especially as travel to the US is difficult now for a lot of scientists. Thoughts?… | 10 comments on LinkedIn
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April 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
this is a great idea, having a parallel Neurips in Europe is long over due, especially as travel to the US is difficult now for a lot of scientists. Thoughts?
www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
This is an amazing opportunity, please repost
We have two visiting posts open in collaboration with Pillar,VC. You'll get:
- £115k salary
- £100k compute
- Access to AI models, tools, and agent systems, pls repost
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We have two visiting posts open in collaboration with Pillar,VC. You'll get:
- £115k salary
- £100k compute
- Access to AI models, tools, and agent systems, pls repost
www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
Reposting this opportunity as it is a great one! | Philip Torr
Reposting this opportunity as it is a great one!
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April 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is an amazing opportunity, please repost
We have two visiting posts open in collaboration with Pillar,VC. You'll get:
- £115k salary
- £100k compute
- Access to AI models, tools, and agent systems, pls repost
www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
We have two visiting posts open in collaboration with Pillar,VC. You'll get:
- £115k salary
- £100k compute
- Access to AI models, tools, and agent systems, pls repost
www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...