Rémi Flamary

École polytechnique and Institut Polytechnique de Paris are some of of the best place in France to teach and do ML research. We have a reduced teaching load, a very active research community, very good students and full academic freedom.

4️⃣ One Assistant Professor (tenured) in Numerical probabilities or computational statistics. Particular emphasis will be placed on applications in areas such as machine learning, finance, ecology, applied statistics, biology, economics, and risk management. tinyurl.com/nct44baz

3️⃣ One Assistant Professor (tenured) in Machine Learning & Applied Probability. We seek candidates working on topics such as generative models, optimization for AI, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and theoretical or methodological aspects of ML and statistics. tinyurl.com/38e6f3f7

2️⃣ Monge Assistant Professor (Tenure track) in Statistical Learning & AI for Mathematics and Science. Our focus is on AI for maths, physics-informed machine learning, interpretable and reliable AI, reasoning models, and methods for scientific discovery, and beyond. tinyurl.com/2efdrpcy

1️⃣ Monge Assistant Professor (Tenure track) in Statistical Learning, Graphs & Large Language Models.
We're looking for researchers in graph learning, large language model methodology and theory, robustness, structured data, and related areas. tinyurl.com/322axx5n

We are recruiting four positions connected to Machine Learning, Statistical Learning, and AI for Science in the Applied Mathematics department at École polytechnique. Join our vibrant community at IP Paris and Hi! Paris IA center. List below🧵 tinyurl.com/3jpw9t26

Bullshit is like entropy nowadays it can only increase.

3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*

Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/

This reddit post made me laugh

Apparently the NeurIPS chairs decided to reopen the camera-ready submission to ensure "that the proceedings reflect the highest scientific quality.” @neuripsconf.bsky.social, is that true?

So the solution to academic misconduct is to give the authors a chance to cover their tracks?

Also I want to thank all ICLR AC this year (I was only reviewer dodged a bullet) before potential grumpiness. It has been a crazy editorial process with some doing the work twice and your work is essential.

The good news is that we did not receive any ICLR rejects today. The bad is that we might start writing ICML papers on Monday😱.

NeurIPS reviewers typically review 6+ papers, each with 100 or so citations. The reviewers can't possibly check that every citation is real. But why don't we have an automated way to do this checking (and desk-rejecting if fake citations found) *before* the papers are sent to reviewers?

Accurate and thorough representation of prior and related work is one of the cornerstones of good research.

It is shocking to me that so many published NeurIPS papers, even from top institutions, have fabricated references.

I recommend reading the original report: gptzero.me/news/neurips/

This is a unique opportunity that should not be missed

Open position: Monge Assistant Professor (Tenure track) on graph learning and/or LLMs, in the applied math dpt. at École polytechnique. Reduced teaching load, many funding opportunities, good students and academic freedom. Contact me if interested. Deadline March 23rd tinyurl.com/MongeAssista...

Proton is nice but requires a Thunderbird extension. There is a whole suite with even password manager.

And now you can fully enjoy the IP Paris/Hi! Paris Computer Vision Workshop. ippariscvworkshop.github.io

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it.
PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

Telling your students about research before the ImageNet moment

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

I missed this post but it is pure gold. www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

Openreview opened the door to continuous and major revisions that nobody has time to check properly.
I think that we should come back to short one pdf page replies to reviews. It would mean having decisions quicker so that we actually have time to work on papers before resubmitting them.

I agree we need to do something. Limiting number of submission per author, and true penalty like multi-year banishment for bad actors/labs/universities seem like a better idea. I you can only submit a few paper and can be banned you will not submit AI slop.

Also putting a coin in the machine would be the last step before we reach gambling as publication selection. We already have the random/noisy decisions we just needed the money to become a loot box community !

Agreed for travel cost. Only rich people do the type of finance that motivates tax Taubin. This is for me closer to french TVA that would hit everyone that submit 2 papers (given accept ratio you always submit 2 papers) but won't even be registered by large teams or bad actors that will submit many.

Don't you think it's going to be even harder for those not working in a rich country (or company 😜). Seems a bit unfair. Also if you can pay for gpt pro you can pay for this...

really annoying.
my student just made this joke:
ICLR= I Can Locate Reviewers 😅

I guess we will see because thats what they decided...

#ICLR Program chairs, Just stop the process already! We can trust the AC to make decision with reviews and responses but we cannot trust anything that happened since the leak.

OpenReview was breached. The names of authors, reviewers, ACs, etc, for all past and current conferences were visible for a time, making nothing anonymous anymore. These data have been released for this year's ICLR, but I fear it's also the case for the past 10 years of conferences.