Victor Escorcia
@escorciav.bsky.social
Father. AI Freelancer @ 🇮🇹. Ph.D. @KAUST_AEx. @AdobeResearch @Qualcomm_EU @samsungresearch 🇨🇴 self-diagnosed with n-personality-disorder ☮️❤️
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Volcanic vistas from yesterday. A low snow start to winter around here but grateful to be healthy and outside
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Volcanic vistas from yesterday. A low snow start to winter around here but grateful to be healthy and outside
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I wonder if the OpenReview dataset gets released, would it help to train LLMs to do better reviews? Also given that we have quality assessments from the follow-up papers for the past conferences.
November 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I wonder if the OpenReview dataset gets released, would it help to train LLMs to do better reviews? Also given that we have quality assessments from the follow-up papers for the past conferences.
Why not?
Blinding peer review, grant proposal review, etc. makes a lot of sense as to even the ground field given the difference pace around the globe.
I'm from 🇨🇴 which might rank in top for corruption. We may have improved as we call it clientelism or politics. Science is not immune to politics
Blinding peer review, grant proposal review, etc. makes a lot of sense as to even the ground field given the difference pace around the globe.
I'm from 🇨🇴 which might rank in top for corruption. We may have improved as we call it clientelism or politics. Science is not immune to politics
In light of the new OpenReview identity-leak scandal, it's a good time to question our assumptions about why blinding in peer review is helpful in the first place.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Why not?
Blinding peer review, grant proposal review, etc. makes a lot of sense as to even the ground field given the difference pace around the globe.
I'm from 🇨🇴 which might rank in top for corruption. We may have improved as we call it clientelism or politics. Science is not immune to politics
Blinding peer review, grant proposal review, etc. makes a lot of sense as to even the ground field given the difference pace around the globe.
I'm from 🇨🇴 which might rank in top for corruption. We may have improved as we call it clientelism or politics. Science is not immune to politics
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I'd at least like transparency about the demographics of the reviewer pools at the megaconferences.
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I'd at least like transparency about the demographics of the reviewer pools at the megaconferences.
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Randomly amusing myself while traveling: many people believe a large fraction of the reviewer pools of the big AI/ML conferences are master's students and undergraduates. Fact or fiction?
I'd at least like transparency about the demographics of the reviewer pools at the megaconferences.
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Randomly amusing myself while traveling: many people believe a large fraction of the reviewer pools of the big AI/ML conferences are master's students and undergraduates. Fact or fiction?
💯 crucifying @openreview.bsky.social (or even @iclr-conf.bsky.social ) for the incident is exaggerated.
100% Reliability doesn't exist! Ask Boeing engineers
Btw, I understand the anger & fear. Now, pls disclose other similar stands of yours, eg measures & actions after Boeing ✈️ incidents.
100% Reliability doesn't exist! Ask Boeing engineers
Btw, I understand the anger & fear. Now, pls disclose other similar stands of yours, eg measures & actions after Boeing ✈️ incidents.
I think they try their best, but it’s not a trivial business… I can actually understand arguments for both sides, but OR integration has so signifincantly progressed, I don’t think there will be a going back … would still like OR to fix some more issues thought… 🫠
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
💯 crucifying @openreview.bsky.social (or even @iclr-conf.bsky.social ) for the incident is exaggerated.
100% Reliability doesn't exist! Ask Boeing engineers
Btw, I understand the anger & fear. Now, pls disclose other similar stands of yours, eg measures & actions after Boeing ✈️ incidents.
100% Reliability doesn't exist! Ask Boeing engineers
Btw, I understand the anger & fear. Now, pls disclose other similar stands of yours, eg measures & actions after Boeing ✈️ incidents.
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NeurIPS is aware of the bug that exposed identities of some involved in the reviewing process on OpenReview. Exploiting leaked information violates our Code of Conduct. Report any contact, threats, or compensation offers via NeurIPShotline@gmail or 858-208-3810 blog.neurips.cc/2025/11/28/r...
Reaffirming our Code of Conduct – NeurIPS Blog
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November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
NeurIPS is aware of the bug that exposed identities of some involved in the reviewing process on OpenReview. Exploiting leaked information violates our Code of Conduct. Report any contact, threats, or compensation offers via NeurIPShotline@gmail or 858-208-3810 blog.neurips.cc/2025/11/28/r...
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I won't look up the names of the reviewers. But I would look up the names of the people who looked up the names of the reviewers.
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I won't look up the names of the reviewers. But I would look up the names of the people who looked up the names of the reviewers.
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Yesterday, I did 2 AI conferences in Paris; different kind of vibes.
AdoptAI, a business show: pretty videos, promises about AI, 2.30€ coffee
NeurIPS@Paris, a research conference: equations, free coffee
AI business wouldn't exist without research. Let's not forget it and keep investing in research
AdoptAI, a business show: pretty videos, promises about AI, 2.30€ coffee
NeurIPS@Paris, a research conference: equations, free coffee
AI business wouldn't exist without research. Let's not forget it and keep investing in research
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Yesterday, I did 2 AI conferences in Paris; different kind of vibes.
AdoptAI, a business show: pretty videos, promises about AI, 2.30€ coffee
NeurIPS@Paris, a research conference: equations, free coffee
AI business wouldn't exist without research. Let's not forget it and keep investing in research
AdoptAI, a business show: pretty videos, promises about AI, 2.30€ coffee
NeurIPS@Paris, a research conference: equations, free coffee
AI business wouldn't exist without research. Let's not forget it and keep investing in research
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Connect at the ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest...in Edinburgh 🏴
On Nov 28th at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Edinburgh.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/4rpNwT9
#NeurIPS2025
On Nov 28th at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Edinburgh.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/4rpNwT9
#NeurIPS2025
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Connect at the ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest...in Edinburgh 🏴
On Nov 28th at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Edinburgh.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/4rpNwT9
#NeurIPS2025
On Nov 28th at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Edinburgh.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/4rpNwT9
#NeurIPS2025
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And a major open science release from Prime Intellect: they don’t stress it enough but SFT part is beyond post-training. This is a fully documented mid-training with tons of insights/gems on MoE training, asynchronous infra RL, deep research. storage.googleapis.com/intellect-3-...
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
And a major open science release from Prime Intellect: they don’t stress it enough but SFT part is beyond post-training. This is a fully documented mid-training with tons of insights/gems on MoE training, asynchronous infra RL, deep research. storage.googleapis.com/intellect-3-...
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Really looking forward to Eurips next week! 🇩🇰 😎
Not just because Bella Centre is literally a metro ride from home, but because it's really excellent to see the ML community gathering in Europe!
If you're around, say hi! Here's where I'll be 🔽🔽
Not just because Bella Centre is literally a metro ride from home, but because it's really excellent to see the ML community gathering in Europe!
If you're around, say hi! Here's where I'll be 🔽🔽
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Really looking forward to Eurips next week! 🇩🇰 😎
Not just because Bella Centre is literally a metro ride from home, but because it's really excellent to see the ML community gathering in Europe!
If you're around, say hi! Here's where I'll be 🔽🔽
Not just because Bella Centre is literally a metro ride from home, but because it's really excellent to see the ML community gathering in Europe!
If you're around, say hi! Here's where I'll be 🔽🔽
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🎉 The @ellisinstitute.fi is open and the first Scientific Seminar mapped out big research directions for AI in science.
The main takeaway: Collaboration across Finland + Europe will be critical to push AI research forward.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4oos4eP
Photos by Matti Ahlgren/Aalto University
The main takeaway: Collaboration across Finland + Europe will be critical to push AI research forward.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4oos4eP
Photos by Matti Ahlgren/Aalto University
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🎉 The @ellisinstitute.fi is open and the first Scientific Seminar mapped out big research directions for AI in science.
The main takeaway: Collaboration across Finland + Europe will be critical to push AI research forward.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4oos4eP
Photos by Matti Ahlgren/Aalto University
The main takeaway: Collaboration across Finland + Europe will be critical to push AI research forward.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4oos4eP
Photos by Matti Ahlgren/Aalto University
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🏹 Job alert: Postdoc in Human-Computer Interaction with Explainable AI at University of Copenhagen
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=153139
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=153139
Postdoc in Human-Computer Interaction with Explainable AI
employment.ku.dk
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🏹 Job alert: Postdoc in Human-Computer Interaction with Explainable AI at University of Copenhagen
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=153139
📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=153139
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Last week’s #AI4Robotics workshop was fab & fabulously full 😊 If you missed out we've good news -
📽️ All 15 talk recordings are now online 🚀! tinyurl.com/4ns5apvd
Catch up on cutting-edge work in #robot perception, action & autonomy - from #SLAM & control to computer vision & large-scale learning!
📽️ All 15 talk recordings are now online 🚀! tinyurl.com/4ns5apvd
Catch up on cutting-edge work in #robot perception, action & autonomy - from #SLAM & control to computer vision & large-scale learning!
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Last week’s #AI4Robotics workshop was fab & fabulously full 😊 If you missed out we've good news -
📽️ All 15 talk recordings are now online 🚀! tinyurl.com/4ns5apvd
Catch up on cutting-edge work in #robot perception, action & autonomy - from #SLAM & control to computer vision & large-scale learning!
📽️ All 15 talk recordings are now online 🚀! tinyurl.com/4ns5apvd
Catch up on cutting-edge work in #robot perception, action & autonomy - from #SLAM & control to computer vision & large-scale learning!
💯 who will admit that over a certain number "humans just hate humans"?
Met few. Only one genuinely honest to tell me:
"I'm a pain in the ass. Call me racist, I don't trust immigrants. Call it a bad business, but I overpaid the piece of land next to mine as I wanted control"
Met few. Only one genuinely honest to tell me:
"I'm a pain in the ass. Call me racist, I don't trust immigrants. Call it a bad business, but I overpaid the piece of land next to mine as I wanted control"
People don’t hate datacenters being built near them, they hate *anything* being built near them. The median position is never build anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
💯 who will admit that over a certain number "humans just hate humans"?
Met few. Only one genuinely honest to tell me:
"I'm a pain in the ass. Call me racist, I don't trust immigrants. Call it a bad business, but I overpaid the piece of land next to mine as I wanted control"
Met few. Only one genuinely honest to tell me:
"I'm a pain in the ass. Call me racist, I don't trust immigrants. Call it a bad business, but I overpaid the piece of land next to mine as I wanted control"
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As we in the US gather with our families this weekend, it's a good time to consider the ways that technology brings us together—but also keeps us apart. In this blog post, I tell a story about how technology may have tended to increase social isolation.
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/10/26/i...
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Technology and Social Isolation: From Cars to “AI”
In this blog post, I tell a story of how some technologies from the past century or so have, overall, led to increased social isolation in the United States, as we replaced in-person social interactio...
aaronhertzmann.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
As we in the US gather with our families this weekend, it's a good time to consider the ways that technology brings us together—but also keeps us apart. In this blog post, I tell a story about how technology may have tended to increase social isolation.
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/10/26/i...
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/10/26/i...
🫣😳🍿🤭
AGI Test 001. Once AI rebrands "Goodharts law" & claims that it tricked all those researchers & aspiring researchers for self-development purposes.
#Fun of (yet another) #AcademicDrama around @neuripsconf.bsky.social publications
AGI Test 001. Once AI rebrands "Goodharts law" & claims that it tricked all those researchers & aspiring researchers for self-development purposes.
#Fun of (yet another) #AcademicDrama around @neuripsconf.bsky.social publications
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
🫣😳🍿🤭
AGI Test 001. Once AI rebrands "Goodharts law" & claims that it tricked all those researchers & aspiring researchers for self-development purposes.
#Fun of (yet another) #AcademicDrama around @neuripsconf.bsky.social publications
AGI Test 001. Once AI rebrands "Goodharts law" & claims that it tricked all those researchers & aspiring researchers for self-development purposes.
#Fun of (yet another) #AcademicDrama around @neuripsconf.bsky.social publications
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⚠️ Update on Deep Research Tulu (DR Tulu), our post-training recipe for deep research agents: we’re releasing an upgraded version of our example agent, DR Tulu-8B (RL), that matches or beats systems like Gemini 3 Pro & Tongyi DeepResearch-30B-A3B on core benchmarks. 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
⚠️ Update on Deep Research Tulu (DR Tulu), our post-training recipe for deep research agents: we’re releasing an upgraded version of our example agent, DR Tulu-8B (RL), that matches or beats systems like Gemini 3 Pro & Tongyi DeepResearch-30B-A3B on core benchmarks. 🧵
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excited to teach at the National AI PhD Fall School in Turin on Th, then visit the University of Bologna on Fri.
if you’re around, happy to chat 😊
if you’re around, happy to chat 😊
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
excited to teach at the National AI PhD Fall School in Turin on Th, then visit the University of Bologna on Fri.
if you’re around, happy to chat 😊
if you’re around, happy to chat 😊
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🚀 Introducing TMLR Beyond PDF!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚀 Introducing TMLR Beyond PDF!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
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Connect at the ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest...in Warsaw 🇵🇱
On Nov 25th at University of Warsaw, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Warsaw.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/3M6evD7
#NeurIPS2025
On Nov 25th at University of Warsaw, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Warsaw.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/3M6evD7
#NeurIPS2025
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Connect at the ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest...in Warsaw 🇵🇱
On Nov 25th at University of Warsaw, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Warsaw.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/3M6evD7
#NeurIPS2025
On Nov 25th at University of Warsaw, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Warsaw.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/3M6evD7
#NeurIPS2025
