Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models

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A method for testing AI safety by using human-like concepts to trick generative models into making mistakes, has been developed by Hub researchers. The paper, entitled Concept-based Adversarial Attack: A Probabilistic Perspective, is summarised on our website: www.genai.ac.uk/news/hub-res...

Gen AI Hub researchers unveil DiffRatio for efficient one-step image generation  — gen ai Hub researchers have developed a method for training ultra-fast image generation models that produce higher-quality images in a single step, while reducing GPU memory usage during training by up to 50...

🚀 New research from the Gen AI Hub 🚀
Our researchers have developed a method for training image generation models that can produce higher-quality images in a single step, while cutting GPU memory usage during training by up to 50%. Full story and paper here👇
www.genai.ac.uk/news/gen-ai-...

❗ We have an update on the eligible costs for the Data Creation & Challenge funding call and have amended the guidelines on our website. If you have considered applying for this funding, why not take another look? 👀

📊 Next week, we will be welcoming Georgia Richards to our AI Frontiers series. She will be sharing insights from creating the Preventable Deaths Tracker and exploring the potential for applying AI to the tool.

Join us online at 2pm on Wed 3 Dec to hear more. Book now ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/harne...

📢Webinar today at 3pm
From researcher to entrepreneur: hear from Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato of @cst.cam.ac.uk & Mingtian Zhang of @uclengineering.bsky.social discuss their experiences of commercialising their research
⏰Places available - sign up on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gen-ai-hub...

Text: AI Hub in Generative Models Dataset creation & challenge projects Image credit: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

📢The availability of rich, diverse and well-curated datasets is vital for advancing scientific and technological innovation.
⭐To support this, we have launched a funding call for Dataset Creation & Challenge collaboration projects.
ℹ️ Full details here: www.genai.ac.uk/dataset-crea...

gen ai We will help to transform science, industry, the economy and society through developing the next generation of generative AI models.

We are putting the finishing touches to our quarterly subscriber news. We have an exciting announcement coming up this week - more info on that in the Hub Herald! Subscribe here: www.genai.ac.uk#subscribe

Just did the Today prog to talk about the latest GM hands-free driving announcement. I thought I should mention this ad. GM, in 1956, imagining the self-driving cars of 1976.

🤖✨ AI Infused Sustainable Manufacturing Symposium

We’re bringing together the AIchemy Hub and SCHEMA Hub for a one-day in-person event.

📅 11th November
📍 SCI, London

Last few tickets available! Don't miss out!

👉 Register now: buff.ly/YpkPNCf

#AIInfusedManufacturing #AIchemyHub #SCHEMAHub

Applying to the #ELLISPhD Program? If you are selecting a Gatsby Unit faculty member as your main supervisor, don't forget to apply to the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme in parallel. Our deadline is 3 Nov 2025.
👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Meet the researcher – Jason Hartford — gen ai The University of Manchester’s Jason Hartford describes how studying economics first got him interested in machine learning and how his academic background has influenced his approach to AI resear...

How studying economics got @manchester.ac.uk's Jason Hartford interested in machine learning and how this background has given him a different perspective on generative models. www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/meet-t...

A new role at one of our sister AI Hubs. 👇

🚀 Do you have an #AI idea that could have real-world impact? 🚀

We’re offering @cam.ac.uk researchers the chance to get up to £25k + 6 months’ support to bring bold concepts to life through our new AI-deas Sprint Programme.

📅 Deadline: 10 Oct
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...

Why academic AI research is essential for our country’s geopolitical and economic security AI adoption in the UK, tech investment, artificial intelligence research at UK universities. Trump and Starmer AI announcement. Microsoft AI investment Nvidia

Our Director David Barber took part in a Q&A for UCL Computer Science and talked about AI sovereignty and how our hub is making collaborative ways of working possible. You can read the blog on Linked In: www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ac... @uclengineering.bsky.social

UK unveils Sovereign AI collaboration designed for its languages and public services — gen ai A collaboration led by UK-LLM to develop a large language model enabling AI reasoning for the UK’s languages and specific needs has been announced by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

A collaboration led by UK-LLM to develop a large language model for the UK’s languages and specific needs has been announced by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Read our news story about this project which will enable reasoning in both English and Welsh. www.genai.ac.uk/news/uk-unve...

📢 ❗JOB OPPORTUNITY: Today is the closing date for this fantastic role we are funding at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social.
⏰ Apply before 23.59BST. 👇

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

JOB: We're recruiting for a 2-year post doc fellowship based at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social working with Prof Arthur Gretton to create new statistically efficient causal and interaction models with the aim of elucidating cellular interactions
⏰closing 27 August
👉 details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

JOB: We're recruiting for a 2-year post doc fellowship based at @gatsbyucl.bsky.social working with Prof Arthur Gretton to create new statistically efficient causal and interaction models with the aim of elucidating cellular interactions
⏰closing 27 August
👉 details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅

EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu

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Our next hub post doc position will soon be live for applications. If you would like to work on generative models at the University of Edinburgh with Siddharth Narayanaswamy & Michael Guttmann, watch this space!

Can't get to Vancouver for ICML? 🍁☹️ The whole conference is being livestreamed. 😀 Register to watch sessions like the Computer Use Agents Workshop, co-organised by hub director David Barber: icml.cc/virtual/2025...

Most AI researchers reject free use of public data to train AI models - Impact of Social Sciences Cian O’Donovan finds most AI researchers oppose companies using public data for AI training, as creatives protest and tensions grow between policy, industry and public expectations.

"New research from @ucl.ac.uk reveals that many AI researchers support stronger ethical standards for training data. A global survey found that only one in four respondents believe AI companies should be allowed to train their models on any publicly available text or images." @cianooo.bsky.social

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Hi Hetan, thanks for sharing - please can I check the url for these opportunities? We'd love to share with our researchers but the themes and bodies don't seem to match the ones in the screenshot.

Hub welcomes UCL’s partnership with NVIDA — gen ai Technology company NVIDIA last week made a series of announcements, including a partnership with hub institution UCL. In this blog, Hub Director David Barber welcomes NVIDIA’s commitment to supporting...

Technology company NVIDIA last week made a series of announcements, including a partnership with UCL to help develop sovereign AI platforms. Here's our reaction to these announcements: www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/ucl-pa...

We are supporting an online reading group for machine learning and molecular science. MolSS = Machine Learning for Molecular Simulations and Sampling holds its first session on 3 June, 15:00 PM (UK time) with Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato of University of Cambridge. 1/2

Computer Use Agents @ ICML2025 📢 Submission Deadline Extended! We’ve extended the paper submission deadline to May 20, 2025 at 11:59pm AoE! what? A full-day workshop to advance research on improving the performance, safety, and de...

In Vancouver for ICML? Our director David Barber has helped to organise a workshop on computer use agents on 19 July. Find out more about attending, or register to become a submissions reviewer on the workshop webpage: www.icml-computeruseagents.com

Computer Use Agents @ ICML2025 📢 Submission Deadline Extended! We’ve extended the paper submission deadline to May 20, 2025 at 11:59pm AoE! what? A full-day workshop to advance research on improving the performance, safety, and de...

The deadline has been extended for the submission of papers to the Computer Use Agents workshop at ICML2025, which is co-organised by our director David Barber. The new deadline is May 20, 2025 at 11:59pm (AoE/Anywhere on Earth). www.icml-computeruseagents.com 1/2

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⏳ Only 10 days to go before registrations close for the Erlangen AI Hub conference on 9-11 June at Queen Mary University of London. Don't miss out! Find out more and register now: erlangenhub.ox.ac.uk/conference-2...

There will be regular sessions every other Tuesday at 16.00 (UK time). You can find further details of MoISS on X: x.com/MolSS_Group/...