Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
Unexpected events grab human attention & push AI models beyond their training data. 🤔
How well do VLMs reason about these critical, novel scenarios?
🦢 Introducing Black Swan @ #CVPR2025 (Poster: Sun 10:30am #304)
Co-lead: @sahithya.bsky.social
w/ @veredshwartz.bsky.social
🔗 blackswan.cs.ubc.ca
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PhD Student at MILA/McGill University with Prof. Siva Reddy and Prof. Vered Shwartz. Previously UBC-CS.
Studying societal impacts of AI, alignment and safety.
Based in Montreal🇨🇦
Assistant Professor @Mila-Quebec.bsky.social
Co-Director @McGill-NLP.bsky.social
Researcher @ServiceNow.bsky.social
Alumni: @StanfordNLP.bsky.social, EdinburghNLP
Natural Language Processor #NLProc
A leading academic computer science department in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
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PhD student @uwnlp.bsky.social @uwcse.bsky.social | visiting researcher @MetaAI | previously @jhuclsp.bsky.social
https://stellalisy.com
Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Visiting researcher at Meta FAIR, PhD candidate at Mila and Université de Montréal. Working on multimodal vision+language learning. Català a Montreal.
jmhessel.com
NLP PhD; Seattle bike lane enjoyer; posts about machine learning, language processing, computer vision, transit
ELLIS PhD Fellow @belongielab.org | @aicentre.dk | University of Copenhagen | @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social | @ellis.eu
Multi-modal ML | Alignment | Culture | Evaluations & Safety| AI & Society
Web: https://www.srishti.dev/
The Vector Institute is dedicated to AI, excelling in machine & deep learning research. AI-generated content will be disclosed. FR: @institutvecteur.bsky.social
PhDing @GeorgiaTech | Previously: @msftresearch.bsky.social, @Microsoft @iiithyderabad | Research: NLP and Social Computing for Healthcare | Opinions are personal
Homepage: https://mohit3011.github.io/
#ResponsibleAI #Human-CenteredAI #NLPforMentalHealth
Working on simulating molecules with AI @valenceai.bsky.social, @recursionpharma.bsky.social | Ex UBC, IIT Delhi
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PhD candidate @Mila and @McGill
Interested in interplay of knowledge and language
Love being outdoors!
PhD student at Mila under Chris Pal. NLP Researcher, working in real-world applications of LLMs
Doctor of NLP/Vision+Language from UCSB
Evals, metrics, multilinguality, multiculturality, multimodality, and (dabbling in) reasoning
https://saxon.me/
Assistant Professor at @cs.ubc.ca and @vectorinstitute.ai working on Natural Language Processing. Book: https://lostinautomatictranslation.com/
Professor at Columbia. Computer Vision and Machine Learning
PhD student at MIT. Machine learning, computer vision, ecology, climate. Previously: Co-founder, CTO Ai.Fish; Researcher at Caltech; UC Berkeley. justinkay.github.io
PhD @UBC_CS | @VectorInst I @UBC_NLP | Prev @MetaAI @MSFTResearch @Open_ML
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