Freda Shi
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Freda Shi
@fredashi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor & Canada CIFAR AI Chair, University of Waterloo & Vector Institute | Excited about "grounding" in any form | Feeder of 2 🐈 | 🏸, 🏐, 🏂 | she/her
Interesting piece to read on how VLMs encode properties of objects!
January 27, 2026 at 9:17 PM
That said, I also like the less intellectually exciting ones as they are solid analyses or methodological enhancements that work for realistic scenarios. It's even hard for me to "rank" them. I'm already prepared to see a reversed ranking from reviewers. (2/2)
January 24, 2026 at 11:28 PM
(1) is "what AI is good at," and (2) is "what typical humans are bad at." But AI is not so good at *creatively* generating ideas that "make sense." Proposing such ideas is a task that does not match either criterion above, and is where human intelligence will keep shining.

2/2
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Yeah I feel it’s indeed easier to have an okay statement with LLM draft, but its emphases are almost always off…
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
You mean narrative CV or something else? I tried using LLM to generate one but… garbage
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Thanks, Chenhao! It's my pleasure helping with streamlining things in the backend - quite some pain but also fun :-)))
September 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Also, is it now common to assume all reviewers are irresponsible and start to threaten them before deadline?
August 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I use local complication w/ VSCode latex workshop plugin + git for version control.
Pros: better hierarchical organization & doesn’t require internet.
Cons: sometimes need to resolve conflict (usually fine if commit frequently) & require a powerful laptop to match overleaf compilation speed.
May 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM