Flora Salim
@florasalim.bsky.social
Professor, CSE, UNSW Sydney. #AI #ML #UbiComp #LLM #MFM #timeseries #ST #multimodal #sensors #continuallearning #trustworthyAI ❤️ #coffee
Why am I here? Scouting for a new platform to discover and learn new papers (let’s see if it’s the one)
Why am I here? Scouting for a new platform to discover and learn new papers (let’s see if it’s the one)
Excited to share that Bisecle is accepted at #NeurIPS2025.
🧠 Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469
Code: github.com/cruiseresear...
Inspired by the rapid binding and pattern separation mechanisms in the hippocampus
🧠 Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469
Code: github.com/cruiseresear...
Inspired by the rapid binding and pattern separation mechanisms in the hippocampus
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Excited to share that Bisecle is accepted at #NeurIPS2025.
🧠 Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469
Code: github.com/cruiseresear...
Inspired by the rapid binding and pattern separation mechanisms in the hippocampus
🧠 Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469
Code: github.com/cruiseresear...
Inspired by the rapid binding and pattern separation mechanisms in the hippocampus
Reposted by Flora Salim
Congrats to team members Prof Flora Salim, Breeze Chen & Wilson Wongso from ADM+S and other team members Xiaoqian Hu & Yue Tan from UNSW who placed 3rd in the highly competitive KDD Cup 2025 Meta CRAG-MM Challenge @florasalim.bsky.social
#KDD2025 #WearableAI #VLLMs admscentre.org/4mu7lFx
#KDD2025 #WearableAI #VLLMs admscentre.org/4mu7lFx
Award-winning tech enhances information retrieval in wearable AI devices - ADM+S Centre
A team of researchers from ADM+S at UNSW has been awarded third place for single-source augmentation in the highly competitive KDD Cup 2025 Meta CRAG-MM Challenge, ranking alongside top institutions s...
admscentre.org
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Congrats to team members Prof Flora Salim, Breeze Chen & Wilson Wongso from ADM+S and other team members Xiaoqian Hu & Yue Tan from UNSW who placed 3rd in the highly competitive KDD Cup 2025 Meta CRAG-MM Challenge @florasalim.bsky.social
#KDD2025 #WearableAI #VLLMs admscentre.org/4mu7lFx
#KDD2025 #WearableAI #VLLMs admscentre.org/4mu7lFx
Beyond Words: Integrating Theory of Mind into Conversational Agents for Human-Like Belief, Desire, and Intention Alignment (#ACL2025 Findings)
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Codes: github.com/cruiseresear...
Findings in the thread below.
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Codes: github.com/cruiseresear...
Findings in the thread below.
July 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Beyond Words: Integrating Theory of Mind into Conversational Agents for Human-Like Belief, Desire, and Intention Alignment (#ACL2025 Findings)
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Codes: github.com/cruiseresear...
Findings in the thread below.
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Codes: github.com/cruiseresear...
Findings in the thread below.
I’m recruiting a 1.5 year postdoc in multimodal continual learning external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Check our recent work on this topic. Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469
Know anyone suitable? Pls repost
Check our recent work on this topic. Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469
Know anyone suitable? Pls repost
Postdoctoral Research Associate / Senior Research Associate in Multimodal Learning
Conduct research field of deep learning focusing on novel continual multimodal learning methods.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
July 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I’m recruiting a 1.5 year postdoc in multimodal continual learning external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Check our recent work on this topic. Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469
Know anyone suitable? Pls repost
Check our recent work on this topic. Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding
arxiv.org/abs/2507.00469
Know anyone suitable? Pls repost
Overleaf is down. Ah well... theoretically, only 30,000+ people hammering it 2 days before NeurIPS deadline.
May 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Overleaf is down. Ah well... theoretically, only 30,000+ people hammering it 2 days before NeurIPS deadline.
NVIDIA Dynamo. Exciting announcement by Jensen Huang #gtc2025. A new open source VMWare-like inference framework for reasoning. It breaks up prefill and decode steps efficiently. DeepSeek R1 requests can be boosted by 30x. Already used by Perplexity, Meta, etc
developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...
developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...
March 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
NVIDIA Dynamo. Exciting announcement by Jensen Huang #gtc2025. A new open source VMWare-like inference framework for reasoning. It breaks up prefill and decode steps efficiently. DeepSeek R1 requests can be boosted by 30x. Already used by Perplexity, Meta, etc
developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...
developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...
I’m in San Jose this week for NVIDIA GTC. I’m a panelist for “The Role of AI and Accelerated Computing in Understanding and Mitigating Urban Climate Change” session.
We'll discuss how AI transforms climate modeling, weather forecasting, and high-resolution urban simulations.
Anyone else attending?
We'll discuss how AI transforms climate modeling, weather forecasting, and high-resolution urban simulations.
Anyone else attending?
March 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I’m in San Jose this week for NVIDIA GTC. I’m a panelist for “The Role of AI and Accelerated Computing in Understanding and Mitigating Urban Climate Change” session.
We'll discuss how AI transforms climate modeling, weather forecasting, and high-resolution urban simulations.
Anyone else attending?
We'll discuss how AI transforms climate modeling, weather forecasting, and high-resolution urban simulations.
Anyone else attending?
Reposted by Flora Salim
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
March 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
We know many cases of automated hiring gone wrong in the past. Automated firing? Doesn’t look good. No guarantee on transparency. The agency will be left to an unnamed LLM: “info would be fed into an unspecified LLM that would assess whether an employee was necessary” www.wired.com/story/doge-a...
DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers
Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
We know many cases of automated hiring gone wrong in the past. Automated firing? Doesn’t look good. No guarantee on transparency. The agency will be left to an unnamed LLM: “info would be fed into an unspecified LLM that would assess whether an employee was necessary” www.wired.com/story/doge-a...
Reposted by Flora Salim
Public Environmental Data Partners archives climate datasets, uploading copies to public repositories and cataloging where and how to find them if they go missing from government websites. Scholars explain:
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
buff.ly
February 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Public Environmental Data Partners archives climate datasets, uploading copies to public repositories and cataloging where and how to find them if they go missing from government websites. Scholars explain:
The Building TimeSeries (BTS) dataset offers a rich, hierarchical structure of a large collection of diverse timeseries. The dataset include the following components:
* Multivariate TimeSeries: From 2021 to 2024, contains over 15,000 timeseries (TS) across 300 unique classes.
* Knowledge Graph
🧵
* Multivariate TimeSeries: From 2021 to 2024, contains over 15,000 timeseries (TS) across 300 unique classes.
* Knowledge Graph
🧵
January 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The Building TimeSeries (BTS) dataset offers a rich, hierarchical structure of a large collection of diverse timeseries. The dataset include the following components:
* Multivariate TimeSeries: From 2021 to 2024, contains over 15,000 timeseries (TS) across 300 unique classes.
* Knowledge Graph
🧵
* Multivariate TimeSeries: From 2021 to 2024, contains over 15,000 timeseries (TS) across 300 unique classes.
* Knowledge Graph
🧵
A new stark reality to hit us and the entire planet ecosystem. And it’s only going to get worse unless we do something about it
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?
The threshold has been exceeded for only one year so far, but humanity is nearing the end of what many thought was a ‘safe zone’ as climate change worsens.
www.nature.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A new stark reality to hit us and the entire planet ecosystem. And it’s only going to get worse unless we do something about it
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Brick-by-Brick is a #WebConf2025 competition.
www2025.thewebconf.org/accepted-com...
Round 1 is well underway with hundreds of submissions.
Check it:
www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
Not too late to join. We’re looking for winners across Round 1 and 2. Win cash prizes and travel grants to WebConf.
www2025.thewebconf.org/accepted-com...
Round 1 is well underway with hundreds of submissions.
Check it:
www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
Not too late to join. We’re looking for winners across Round 1 and 2. Win cash prizes and travel grants to WebConf.
International World Wide Web Conference 2025 ( WWW2025 | The Web Conf 2025 )
28 April - 2 May 2025
www2025.thewebconf.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Brick-by-Brick is a #WebConf2025 competition.
www2025.thewebconf.org/accepted-com...
Round 1 is well underway with hundreds of submissions.
Check it:
www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
Not too late to join. We’re looking for winners across Round 1 and 2. Win cash prizes and travel grants to WebConf.
www2025.thewebconf.org/accepted-com...
Round 1 is well underway with hundreds of submissions.
Check it:
www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
Not too late to join. We’re looking for winners across Round 1 and 2. Win cash prizes and travel grants to WebConf.
#IJCAI2025 Call for Tutorials
📆Submission deadline: 28 March 2025
➡️ 2025.ijcai.org/call-for-tut...
📣Chair: Flora Salim and Quanming Yao
#AI #Research #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #tutorial #cfp
📆Submission deadline: 28 March 2025
➡️ 2025.ijcai.org/call-for-tut...
📣Chair: Flora Salim and Quanming Yao
#AI #Research #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #tutorial #cfp
Call for Tutorials – IJCAI 2025
2025.ijcai.org
January 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#IJCAI2025 Call for Tutorials
📆Submission deadline: 28 March 2025
➡️ 2025.ijcai.org/call-for-tut...
📣Chair: Flora Salim and Quanming Yao
#AI #Research #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #tutorial #cfp
📆Submission deadline: 28 March 2025
➡️ 2025.ijcai.org/call-for-tut...
📣Chair: Flora Salim and Quanming Yao
#AI #Research #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #tutorial #cfp
Another one down
BTS: Buildings Time Series
+ CRUISE in NeurIPS team photo
#neurips2024
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
BTS: Buildings Time Series
+ CRUISE in NeurIPS team photo
#neurips2024
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Another one down
BTS: Buildings Time Series
+ CRUISE in NeurIPS team photo
#neurips2024
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
BTS: Buildings Time Series
+ CRUISE in NeurIPS team photo
#neurips2024
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
🚀 A new ML Challenge: Brick by Brick 2024: Automate Building Data Classification
🔗 www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
* up to $20,000 AUD in prizes.
Check out #NeurIPS2024 Building Timeseries Dataset.
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
📍 Fri 13 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5106
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
🔗 www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
* up to $20,000 AUD in prizes.
Check out #NeurIPS2024 Building Timeseries Dataset.
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
📍 Fri 13 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5106
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
AIcrowd | Brick by Brick 2024 | Challenges
Automating Building Data Classification
www.aicrowd.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:21 AM
🚀 A new ML Challenge: Brick by Brick 2024: Automate Building Data Classification
🔗 www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
* up to $20,000 AUD in prizes.
Check out #NeurIPS2024 Building Timeseries Dataset.
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
📍 Fri 13 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5106
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
🔗 www.aicrowd.com/challenges/b...
* up to $20,000 AUD in prizes.
Check out #NeurIPS2024 Building Timeseries Dataset.
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
📍 Fri 13 Dec 11-2, West Ballroom A-D #5106
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
Another reminder. At least 7 Associate professor position (Level D, post tenure) at CSE, UNSW Sydney. I'm at NeurIPS if people are interested to find out more about us and the role.
@neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 #jobs #facultyjobs
@neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 #jobs #facultyjobs
CSE, UNSW Sydney is hiring multiple Associate Professors (Level D, tenured) on:
- Algorithms
- Computer Graphics
- Embedded Systems
- Formal Methods
- NLP
- Theoretical Machine Learning
- Robotics
Closing 27 Jan 2025. Those wanting to know about working in Sydney and Australia do reach out 🦘🎓
URL👇
- Algorithms
- Computer Graphics
- Embedded Systems
- Formal Methods
- NLP
- Theoretical Machine Learning
- Robotics
Closing 27 Jan 2025. Those wanting to know about working in Sydney and Australia do reach out 🦘🎓
URL👇
December 11, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Another reminder. At least 7 Associate professor position (Level D, post tenure) at CSE, UNSW Sydney. I'm at NeurIPS if people are interested to find out more about us and the role.
@neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 #jobs #facultyjobs
@neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 #jobs #facultyjobs
My pick was Transformer! What about you?
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 11:18 PM
My pick was Transformer! What about you?
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
Check out our 3 NeurIPS 📌 in thread.
1. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
2. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
3. Resolution-Agnostic Transformer-based Climate Downscaling
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
#NeurIPS2024
1. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
2. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
3. Resolution-Agnostic Transformer-based Climate Downscaling
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
#NeurIPS2024
December 9, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Check out our 3 NeurIPS 📌 in thread.
1. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
2. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
3. Resolution-Agnostic Transformer-based Climate Downscaling
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
#NeurIPS2024
1. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
2. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
3. Resolution-Agnostic Transformer-based Climate Downscaling
🎥 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
#NeurIPS2024
Reposted by Flora Salim
Aperiodic* reminder that I put together a starter pack of CS academics in Australia+NZ: go.bsky.app/N5x6GLQ
Let me know if you want to be added!
Let me know if you want to be added!
December 4, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Aperiodic* reminder that I put together a starter pack of CS academics in Australia+NZ: go.bsky.app/N5x6GLQ
Let me know if you want to be added!
Let me know if you want to be added!
Yes not quite, as I went back straight into marking 😆
December 4, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Yes not quite, as I went back straight into marking 😆
Fun times yesterday celebrating my student Yonchanok Khaokaew’s PhD graduation with some of my team members
December 4, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Fun times yesterday celebrating my student Yonchanok Khaokaew’s PhD graduation with some of my team members
Overleaf is down and I can’t even download my repos. Any suggestions?
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Overleaf is down and I can’t even download my repos. Any suggestions?
Hear hear!
If you reviewed for #ICLR, please make sure to read other reviewers' comments too and reflect on whether you may have missed something.
The paper will need to have a single decision; the point of this exercise is not just about addressing each reviewer's concerns individually.
The paper will need to have a single decision; the point of this exercise is not just about addressing each reviewer's concerns individually.
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Hear hear!