Jason Weston comments on Ilya’s ToT award talk.

Thomas Kipf with the Google IO's DJ bathrobe :D
#NeurIPS2024

It is sad to see authors not being able to present their work at #NeurIPS2024 because of visa issues.
But some authors went above and beyond.

Here is @hadivafaii.bsky.social tele-presenting his work with an impressive setup (ipad, mic, speaker, holder, battery).
Well done sir!

The talk by meta folks about their schedule-free learning was great.

They provide nice theoretical insights as well as good experiments in their paper "The Road Less Scheduled".
arxiv.org/abs/2405.15682

I guess the below picture shows well the "any-time stopping" property well.

In the morning we had the Sepp Hochreiter talk about "Industrial AI". He gave interesting analogies to steam engines and production of ammonium nitrate for fertilizers.

I guess many people have noticed these analogies and came up with similar talks before.

Lot's of grokking papers recently. Lol
#NeurIPS2024

Sepp Hochreiter claims “the bitter lesson is over”!
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