Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau

I'm working on super tiny neural networks that perform better than the big ones, it's kinda insane.

Hugo Larochelle becomes the new Scientific Director of Mila | Mila Montreal (Quebec), September 2, 2025 – Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, announces the appointment of Hugo Larochelle—Adjunct Professor at the Université de Montréal and former head ...

Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Hugo Larochelle as Mila's new Scientific Director! A deep learning pioneer and former head of Google's AI lab in Montreal, Hugo's leadership will be pivotal in advancing AI for the benefit of all.

mila.quebec/en/news/hugo...

Researcher in 2026
>Use LLMs to generate 20 papers
>Spend 2 weeks clicking approve/reject
>Bill: 20k$ in API credits
>Spend 2 weeks verifying them, 1 is good
>Publish paper
>GitHub issues: Data leakage, bugs; ignore
>post on X: Human coding is obsolete! AI invented new science🤯

🚗💥Introducing Ctrl-Crash: controllable video generation for autonomous driving! SOTA models struggle to generate physically realistic car crashes. We propose an image2video diffusion model with bounding box and crash type control.
Website: anthonygosselin.github.io/Ctrl-Crash-P...
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ILYA: "PRETRAINING IS DONE. WE ARE NOW IN THE POST TRAINING ERA."

I'm finally starting to train video-game generative models! 🎮 The data processing took a long time.

the problem is i want to play every video game and there are only finite hours in a lifetime

Rearchitecting Hugging Face Uploads and Downloads We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

On the Xet team at @huggingface.bsky.social we're always looking for ways to move bytes to computer near you as fast as possible.

To do this, we're redesigning the upload and download infrastructure on the Hub. This post describes how, check the thread for details 🧵

huggingface.co/blog/rearchi...

These offer some GPU access for small groups. All of Mila has access to some of their servers, but its priority queues and getting lots of GPUs is hard.

I remember waiting for a week to get the 4 GPUs needed for training my video diffusion models at the time (from arxiv.org/abs/2205.09853).

This year, I started telling authors that I will likely increase my score if they fix X, Y, Z. If they do what I ask, they get more points instantly.

I wish my own reviewers did that instead of giving 3/10 and then not answering after addressing all their concerns. Do better people!

Any Canadian equivalent?

A bit more detail for others. Almost anyone can get an Explore allocation by submitting a simple form, which can get you about 5000 GPU hours.
allocations.access-ci.org/project-types

The coocoos are growing.
ETA: AI religion in 5 years.

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