Quentin Berthet

3) "Causality in the Age of AI Scaling"

causcale.github.io

organized by David Inouye, Bryon Aragam, Murat Kocaoglu

2) "OPTIMAL: (O)ptimisation and (P)os(T)-Bayesian (I)nference in (MA)chine (L)earning"

optimal-workshop26.github.io

organized by K. Daudel, J. Knoblauch, S. Filippi, V. Fortuin, T. Möllenhoff, J. Odgers, C. Tsay, C. Dellaporta, M. Altamirano, Y. McLatchie

1) "Towards Trustworthy Predictions: Theory and Applications of Calibration for Modern AI"

calibration-workshop.github.io

organized by Eugène Berta, Sebastian G. Gruber, Francis Bach, Edgar Dobriban, Teodora Popordanoska, Yifan Wu

🌴📊📈 - AISTATS 2026 workshops

For the first time, AISTATS (May 2-5 in Tangier, Morocco) will have a day of workshops!

Please submit your best work by Feb. 27th:
- calibration-workshop.github.io
- optimal-workshop26.github.io
- causcale.github.io

virtual.aistats.org/virtual/2026...
👇

Me too!

I don't know about the details or the situation you are referring to. The PhD students are Google employees and paid as such 100% during their PhDs. Some amount (overhead , support) is also transferred to the university. I don't know when

🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷

We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit.

These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions.

job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

Arrived #NeurIPS2025 ☀️

If you're interested in the interplay of Geometry, Topology, Algebra w/ Neuroscience & AI, I'll give 2 talks on Sunday:

🌐11:30am: The Algebra of Spatial Navigation (Groups & grid cells)

🍩1:30pm: Topological Deep Learning (Complexes & Graphs)

More👇

Viola
December 6th 2025

Intersection of topics: super interesting research and one of the best feel-good movies of all time

Reformist Reinforcement Learning What if we just begin and end with policy gradient?

In honor of the 39th AI Winter, I’m going to spend the week disentangling the culture and code of reinforcement learning. There may be ranting...

Sorry to miss it again! One of these days I'll be in running shape *and* at the same conference as you!

Enjoy!

Thanks @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for highlighting our #TIMEBestInvention of the Year award!

tinyurl.com/4939bxu5

This strengthens our commitment to innovating for women's brain health with @ai-ucsb.bsky.social & @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social 🧠

Speaking of EurIPS: looking for coffee recommendations in Copenhagen (planning ahead of tomorrow morning)

14hrs over four countries, didn't show my passport once, had a pretzel in Koln and a beer in Hamburg.

As George Clooney says, it's the best! (Unlike Nespresso)

Congratulations!

Today is a day about three very cool things: trains, Europe, and ML!

I'm on my way from Paris to Copenhagen, to attend my first EurIPS!

Looking forward to it, reach out if you want to chat!

Nice to be at NeurIPS@Paris, and happy that Google DeepMind could support the organizers of this amazing event!

Behold! (Best known solution for packing 17 squares)

1) des gens y travaillent

2) tout a fait d'accord ! Je ne justifiais pas la tâche kafkaïenne. Mon approche est plus de chercher un moyen de contourner que de protester, en général

Un des exemples de motivation derrière la recherche académique sur les LLMs je crois : "ça doit être plus facile d'apprendre a des modèles à écrire que de continuer à remplir ces formulaires

Si seulement il y avait une technologie permettant de faire ça automatiquement ;-)

Being a rejected paper seems like a good criteria (possible issues, but very easy to implement)

I'm surprised, there must have been an additional round of changes.

All the emails I saw as an SAC were "help your ACs write new meta-reviews".

I think that they are hard to bootstrap.

While I agree that general chairs, program chairs, local chairs etc do a lot of work (seeing a glimpse of that sometimes myself with ALT/AISTATS), once you start having a bit of money, it can get easier with using conference organising services

How do-able would it be to organize a conference with its deadline a week after NeurIPS, held a week before, that would always take place physically in Europe (but welcome contributions from anywhere)?

I'm very happy that EurIPS is happening, and planning to attend.

But as a NeurIPS SAC I must say that the last definition should not exist - ACs are supposed to change the decisions and update their meta-review themselves.

🚨AISTATS workshop proposals open!

Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦

Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs.

virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
Deadline: Oct 17, AOE

At #AISTATS2025, I will be giving an "Oral" presentation of our work on "Implicit Diffusion"

arxiv.org/abs/2402.05468

I will be attending #ICLR2025 in Singapore and #AISTATS2025 in Mai Khao over the next two weeks.

Looking forward to meeting new people and learning about new things. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk about Google DeepMind.