Shiry Ginosar

TTIC is hiring tenure track faculty! Come join us in Chicago!

I am sadly not at ICCV but Greg Shakhnarovich (Vision) home.ttic.edu/~gregory/ and Matt Walter (Robotics) home.ttic.edu/~mwalter/ are around and would be happy to chat.

@alisongopnik.bsky.social's talk happening now!!

Ballroom B

@iccv.bsky.social

With a star-studded organizing team from Google DeepMind, @ox.ac.uk, @bristoluni.bsky.social, and @tticconnect.bsky.social

Joe Heyward, @nikparth1.bsky.social, @tylerzhu.bsky.social , Aravindh Mahendran, Joao Carreira, @dimadamen.bsky.social, Andrew Zisserman, Viorica Patraucean

Guest track 2: Our one and only KiVA Challenge!!! kiva-challenge.github.io

Veo can (almost...) do it!!! can you?? video-zero-shot.github.io

With @euniceyiu.bsky.social, Anisa Noor Majhi, Maan Qraitem, Kate Saenko, @alisongopnik.bsky.social

Guest track 1: Physics IQ physics-iq.github.io/workshop/phy...

With Robert Geirhos, Priyank Jaini, Luc Van Gool, and Saman Motamed

Join us TODAY for the 3rd Perception Test Challenge perception-test-challenge.github.io @iccv.bsky.social

Ballroom B, Full day

Amazing lineup of speakers: Ali Farhadi, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Phlipp Krahenbul, @phillipisola.bsky.social

TODAY! Artificial Social Intelligence Workshop @iccv.bsky.social

Room 317B, Full day

Social reasoning, multimodality, and embodiment!

Speakers: Evonne Ng, @tianminshu.bsky.social @hyunwoo-kim.bsky.social, @diyiyang.bsky.social ang.bsky.social, @hokulabs.bsky.social, @michael-j-black.bsky.social

KiVA (Kid-inspired Visual Analogies) Challenge Test Phase is NOW LIVE (Sep 1–Oct 6)!

Can your model reason like a child? Can it beat adults?

🥇 $1,000
🥈 $500 for 2 runner-ups

Join/submit: t.co/zQwA1Nmohy

And join us at @iccv.bsky.social in Hawaii!! 🌴

ICML Workshop on Assessing World Models Date: Friday, July 18 2025 Time: 8:45am - 5:15pm (Pacific Time) Location: West Ballroom B at ICML 2025 in Vancouver, Canada (Same Floor as Registration)

I am giving a talk this morning at 10:40AM PST as part of the #ICML2025 Workshop on Assessing World Models.

Title: "What Do Vision and Vision-Language Models Really Know About the World?"

Come join us!

www.worldmodelworkshop.org

Join us for 3rd Perception Test Workshop &Challenge
@iccv.bsky.social #iccv2025
*NEW* this year:
- 3 unified tracks
- novel interpretability track
- guest tracks: KiVA and Physics-IQ
- 4 world-class speakers (see pic)
Up to 50K in prizes sponsored by Google DeepMind
🧵 for details [1/4]

Held @iccv.bsky.social in conjunction with GoogleDeepMind 3rd Perception Test Challenge: perception-test-challenge.github.io

Amazing speakers: Ali Farhadi, @alisongopnik.bsky.social @phillipisola.bsky.social, Philipp Krähenbühl.

Fantastically organized by @euniceyiu.bsky.social and co.!

🧠How “old” is your model?

Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults.

🏆 Prizes:
🥇$1K to the top model
🥈🥉$500
📅 Deadline: 10/7/25
🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io
@iccv.bsky.social

When it comes to goal-directed work, people prioritize controllable variability (a.k.a. empowerment!).

But in undirected play, we shift toward embracing pure variability.

Check out our forthcoming Phil. Trans. A (2026) paper!

Check out our new paper at #ICLR2025, where we show that multi-task neural decoding is both possible and beneficial.

As well, the latents of a model trained only on neural activity capture information about brain regions and cell-types.

Step-by-step, we're gonna scale up folks!

🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

Alison Gopnik and Anne-Marie Slaughter on Why We’re Not Paying Enough Attention to Caregiving KQED's Forum · Episode

🎧 Listen to the podcast!

Professor @alisongopnik.bsky.social and @newamerica.org CEO @slaughteram.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about how rethinking our approach to caregiving and how we support care providers could lead to a better society.

🔗:

With Eunice Yiu, Maan Qraitem, Anisa Noor Majhi, Charlie Wong, Yutong Bai, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, and Kate Saenko. @iclr-conf.bsky.social

Think LMMs can reason like a 3-year-old?

Think again!

Our Kid-Inspired Visual Analogies benchmark reveals where young children still win: ey242.github.io/kiva.github....

Catch our #ICLR2025 poster today to see where models still fall short!

Thurs. April 24
3-5:30 pm
Halls 3 + 2B #312

Neuroscience is finally taking more and more baby steps towards running experiments at scale!

‘Natural Neuroscience,’ an excerpt In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.

In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Welcome to TTIC!! We are so excited to have you join us!!

We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io

ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot Nonverbal behaviors such as posture, gestures, and gaze are essential for conveying internal states, both consciously and unconsciously, in…

This shows the importance of expressive (rather than functional) gesture really nicely in a beautiful non-anthropomorphic robot design

machinelearning.apple.com/research/ele...

She explained to me that a suitably programmed computer can read a novel in a few minutes and record the list of all the words contained in the text, in order of frequency. "That way I can have an already completed reading at hand," Lotaria says, "with an incalculable saving of time. What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings? An electronic reading supplies me with a list of the frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study. Naturally, at the highest frequencies the list records countless articles, pronouns, particles, but I don't pay them any attention. I head straight for the words richest in meaning; they can give me a fairly precise notion of the book."

Lotaria brought me some novels electronically transcribed, in the form of words listed in the order of their frequency. "In a novel of fifty to a hundred thousand words," she said to me, "I advise you to observe immediately the words that are repeated about twenty times. Look here. Words that appear nineteen times: blood, cartridge belt, commander, do, have, im- mediately, it, life, seen, sentry, shots, spider, teeth, together, your...   "Words that appear eighteen times: boys, cap, come, dead, eat, enough, evening, French, go, handsome, new, passes, period, po- tatoes, those, until...   "Don't you already have a clear idea what it's about?" Lotaria says. "There's no question: it's a war novel, all action, brisk writing, with a certain underlying violence. The narration is entirely on the surface, I would say; but

Did Italo Calvino discover bag of words and topic models in 1979?

That is a fantastic book! But now I realize I don't remember it at all and need to re-read it ;-)

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

"That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what. But it doesn't have to. Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen."
www.science.org/content/blog...

YouTube video by tpirman1982 Classic Sesame Street - What Do People Do All Day

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVO6...

Sign me up for the project ;-)

What does that mean?
It's both my kids' favorite book ever ;-)

Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/

Fantastic work from @jathushan.bsky.social! With Xinlei Chen, Rulilong Li, Christoph Feichtenhofer, and Jitendra Malik