Shubhendu Trivedi
@shubhendu.bsky.social
Interests on bsky: ML research, applied math, and general mathematical and engineering miscellany. Also: Uncertainty, symmetry in ML, reliable deployment; applications in LLMs, computational chemistry/physics, and healthcare.
https://shubhendu-trivedi.org
https://shubhendu-trivedi.org
For the past couple of years or so, whenever I feel like I am on top of most things, and start feeling good about it, I soon realize I have 4-5 papers to review still in the queue. We just finished ICLR, ARR, AISTATS, and there are still more (this time from journals; CVPR isn't out yet).
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
For the past couple of years or so, whenever I feel like I am on top of most things, and start feeling good about it, I soon realize I have 4-5 papers to review still in the queue. We just finished ICLR, ARR, AISTATS, and there are still more (this time from journals; CVPR isn't out yet).
This chart is apparently very popular. I have a lot of thoughts on each point in this thread, but not sure they are worthy of explication, so I'd just reshare. I'd only say that stock markets' (unlike currency and bond markets) adolescent character is often misused both ways, even by individuals who
This chart IMO is showing a rebalancing story under the constraints of a wider global debasement trade. it is not showing a policy story (at least not directly). Stocks don't reflect policy in the short term, they reflect allocations. Yields are a better barometer, and you see them degrade all over.
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This chart is apparently very popular. I have a lot of thoughts on each point in this thread, but not sure they are worthy of explication, so I'd just reshare. I'd only say that stock markets' (unlike currency and bond markets) adolescent character is often misused both ways, even by individuals who
Working with a good (or disastrously bad, or usually both) lawyer or doctor is often the first time people feel what "domain expertise" really means. Otherwise stakes are often removed, and the concept becomes too abstract.
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Working with a good (or disastrously bad, or usually both) lawyer or doctor is often the first time people feel what "domain expertise" really means. Otherwise stakes are often removed, and the concept becomes too abstract.
लोग कहते हैं कि आखिर स्थायी मूल्य और शाश्वत परम्परा भी तो कोई चीज है। सही है, पर मूर्खता के सिवाय कोई भी मान्यता शाश्वत नहीं है। मूर्खता अमर है। वह बार-बार मरकर फिर जीवित हो जाती है। ~ (हरिशंकर परसाई, अपनी-अपनी बीमारी)
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
लोग कहते हैं कि आखिर स्थायी मूल्य और शाश्वत परम्परा भी तो कोई चीज है। सही है, पर मूर्खता के सिवाय कोई भी मान्यता शाश्वत नहीं है। मूर्खता अमर है। वह बार-बार मरकर फिर जीवित हो जाती है। ~ (हरिशंकर परसाई, अपनी-अपनी बीमारी)
"Recruiting PhD students" is accurate technically and reflects the reality, yet the framing feels entirely wrong, in a much broader symptomatic sense (e.g. students as budgetary instruments; framing doctoral advising as staffing a corporate-style grant-funded research operation etc).
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
"Recruiting PhD students" is accurate technically and reflects the reality, yet the framing feels entirely wrong, in a much broader symptomatic sense (e.g. students as budgetary instruments; framing doctoral advising as staffing a corporate-style grant-funded research operation etc).
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It is difficult to accept that Naresh Dadhich is no more. He was a teacher, a mentor and a friend. I first met him during the first IUCAA-NCRA summer school in June 1990. He was a very fine human being who used his position on behalf of those who did not have a voice.
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
It is difficult to accept that Naresh Dadhich is no more. He was a teacher, a mentor and a friend. I first met him during the first IUCAA-NCRA summer school in June 1990. He was a very fine human being who used his position on behalf of those who did not have a voice.
Programmed periodic re-reading
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Programmed periodic re-reading
Came across this very cool library (via Cindy Zhang):
spglib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
If you have atom coordinates and lattice parameters, spglib identifies the crystal symmetry for you quite efficiently and reliably.
Article describing how the search proceeds www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
spglib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
If you have atom coordinates and lattice parameters, spglib identifies the crystal symmetry for you quite efficiently and reliably.
Article describing how the search proceeds www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Spglib — Spglib v2.6.0
spglib.readthedocs.io
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Came across this very cool library (via Cindy Zhang):
spglib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
If you have atom coordinates and lattice parameters, spglib identifies the crystal symmetry for you quite efficiently and reliably.
Article describing how the search proceeds www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
spglib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
If you have atom coordinates and lattice parameters, spglib identifies the crystal symmetry for you quite efficiently and reliably.
Article describing how the search proceeds www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📣 #ICML tutorials: We want to know what *you* would like to learn. This year, Adam White and I are calling for nominations of topics and/or presenters.
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
ICML 20256 Call For Tutorials
icml.cc
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📣 #ICML tutorials: We want to know what *you* would like to learn. This year, Adam White and I are calling for nominations of topics and/or presenters.
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
Until December 7th, you can send us your suggestions, and we will use them to shape the program.
icml.cc/Conferences/...
विकलांग श्रद्धा का दौर
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
विकलांग श्रद्धा का दौर
This chart IMO is showing a rebalancing story under the constraints of a wider global debasement trade. it is not showing a policy story (at least not directly). Stocks don't reflect policy in the short term, they reflect allocations. Yields are a better barometer, and you see them degrade all over.
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This chart IMO is showing a rebalancing story under the constraints of a wider global debasement trade. it is not showing a policy story (at least not directly). Stocks don't reflect policy in the short term, they reflect allocations. Yields are a better barometer, and you see them degrade all over.
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Exciting! Dark Energy Survey collaboration releases first paper demonstrating power of simulation-based inference for cosmological large scale structure!
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04681
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04681
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Exciting! Dark Energy Survey collaboration releases first paper demonstrating power of simulation-based inference for cosmological large scale structure!
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04681
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04681
The flow always seems to know the news before it happens.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The flow always seems to know the news before it happens.
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Hopefullly they also include test of space awards.
Computational Complexity Conference launches its first test of time award. Nominations due by March 2.
computationalcomplex...
computationalcomplex...
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Hopefullly they also include test of space awards.
I haven't read Dostoevsky since I was 22-24, but always felt his early works developed around night light similarly, but focused inward i.e. noctural lighting didn't serve to illuminate the ambiguity and underside of modern life (via the sociological gaze of the picaro character), but of the self.
In his essay “The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque”, Matthew Beaumont explores how the introduction of street lighting to 17th-century London engendered the birth of a peculiar new literary genre: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-nightwalker-and-the-nocturnal-picaresque
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I haven't read Dostoevsky since I was 22-24, but always felt his early works developed around night light similarly, but focused inward i.e. noctural lighting didn't serve to illuminate the ambiguity and underside of modern life (via the sociological gaze of the picaro character), but of the self.
A book from 1968: "How to build a working digital computer," specifically aimed at readers with no background in computers (including hobbyists, secondary school students). The goal is to "build a computer" using household items like lamps, paperclips etc. archive.org/details/howt...
How to Build a Working Digital Computer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
How to Build a Working Digital Computer, by Edward Alcosser, James P. Phillips, Allen M. Wolk. From Hayden Book Company, Inc. New York. Includes Introduction,...
archive.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A book from 1968: "How to build a working digital computer," specifically aimed at readers with no background in computers (including hobbyists, secondary school students). The goal is to "build a computer" using household items like lamps, paperclips etc. archive.org/details/howt...
Turns out Friday nights and weekend mornings are just for reviewing papers.
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Turns out Friday nights and weekend mornings are just for reviewing papers.
Sage era. One with mullet-like hair, one without. Same time. Back when Royal Enfields weren't too common.
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Sage era. One with mullet-like hair, one without. Same time. Back when Royal Enfields weren't too common.
This manuscript is notable for many reasons. One is that most of the stories (biblical, legends) are set in contemporary England. So many of the biblical figures wear chain mail, the narratives are embroidered through daily life, the architecture reflects what was prevalent in England at the time.
“God the Creator”, opening illustration to a stunning 14th-century manuscript known as the Holkham Bible Picture Book. Explore more of its glorious depictions of bible scenes here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/holkham-bible
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This manuscript is notable for many reasons. One is that most of the stories (biblical, legends) are set in contemporary England. So many of the biblical figures wear chain mail, the narratives are embroidered through daily life, the architecture reflects what was prevalent in England at the time.
I read an (otherwise thin on analysis) feature in the FT a few weeks ago that had an evocative framing in terms of thinking of China as trying to develop an electrostate (while others regress into being petrostates).
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I read an (otherwise thin on analysis) feature in the FT a few weeks ago that had an evocative framing in terms of thinking of China as trying to develop an electrostate (while others regress into being petrostates).
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I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Actually a very nice paper. proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2018/h...
A loss framework for calibrated anomaly detection
proceedings.neurips.cc
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Actually a very nice paper. proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2018/h...
Reminded me of a figure from the PhD thesis of Ferenc Huszar
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Reminded me of a figure from the PhD thesis of Ferenc Huszar