Mufei Li

What needs to be take care of when applying privacy amplification by iteration to zeroth-order optimization? Can it even be done? What's the "good design" for DP zeroth-order method? Check out our latest work! It's so nice to collaborate with Wei-Ning (as usual) and Pan!

Previous studies on LLM unlearning primarily focus on average-case scenario. Our work discloses the insufficiencies of existing LLM unlearning methods for long-tailed minority data, which is crucial for privacy considerations.

Reminder: the abstract deadline is today (March 22) AoE

"visualize a cartoonish llama rolling down a medieval gate. The gate is 1/3 down. Above the gate it says "abstract submission""... clearly there are still some open problems 🤦🤦🤦

ICLR Organizing Committee Sign-up Form Indicating interest in Volunteer Chair and/or Mentorship Chair

We are seeking Volunteer & Mentorship Chairs for #ICLR2025.

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Initial work (signing up volunteers & mentors) will start soon. Bulk of work is closer to conference (assigning volunteers to tasks, office hours for mentors).

Can offer registration & hotel accommodations.

We now have a form for postdoc applications:
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I am looking at candidates on a rolling basis, so while there's no deadline, there's an advantage of throwing your name in the ring earlier than later

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so, i heard people are now really into non-autoregressive models. phew ... these kids 🚼 😂

here's my slide from 2019 (early 2020) when i kinda started to gradually _stop_ working on them after a few years of working on it.

if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?

1. Maybe historian
2. Math
3. Completed a B.S. in Math, but switched to ML for PhD
4. SDE -> PhDing

📣My team at Microsoft Research New York is hiring a senior researcher in AI, both broadly in AI/ML, and in some specific areas including science of deep learning and modular transfer learning.

Apply by February 7, 2025 on the link below.

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We're excited to announce the ICML 2025 call for workshops! The CFP and submission advice can be found at: icml.cc/Conferences/.... The deadline is Feb 10. Submit some creative proposals!

feeling a but under the weather this week … thus an increased level of activity on social media and blog: kyunghyuncho.me/i-sensed-anx...

With @adamsmith.xyz and @thejonullman.bsky.social, we have compiled a set of profiles of 29 people in the "foundations of responsible computing" community ("mathematical research in computation and society writ large") who are on the faculty job market.

Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hyvg... 1/3

Just a poster I'm very proud of. Mainly because it's the first time I led a theory-focused paper 🥳

Coming soon to NeurIPS Workshops near you (two spotlights!!) 🔦

I unfortunately won't be there myself, but Christos and Federico will be around 🚀

I’m on the academic job market this year! I’m completing my @uwcse.bsky.social @uwnlp.bsky.social Ph.D. (2025), focusing on overcoming LLM limitations like hallucinations, by building new LMs.
My Ph.D. work focuses on Retrieval-Augmented LMs to create more reliable AI systems 🧵

Any interesting takeaways?

Announcement from TMLR jmlr.org/tmlr/

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📣 Heads-up 📣 that TMLR will pause new submissions over the upcoming holiday period from December 2 2024 to January 6 2025 (midnight AoE on both dates). We will resume accepting new submissions on January 7, 2025. Happy Holidays!
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Posting a call for help: does anyone know of a good way to simultaneously treat both POTS and Ménière’s disease? Please contact me if you’re either a clinician with experience doing this or a patient who has found a good solution. Context in thread

Screen capture of LoG website. The conference is Nov 26-29, 2024. See our website for more details: https://logconference.org/.

✨EXCITING NEWS! We now have a Bluesky account!!

AND registration for the 3rd Learning on Graphs conference is open 😊

It is virtual, free to attend, livestreamed, and recorded 📹 Sign up today! The conference is this coming week 😱

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