David Vos
@davidvos.bsky.social
Responsible #RecSys and #IR in the Generative AI era. PhD Candidate at IRLab Amsterdam, supervised by Maarten de Rijke and Andrew Yates. davidvos.dev
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David Vos
@davidvos.bsky.social
· Nov 18
A brief introduction of myself should be a good idea after moving from the other platform to here :)
I'm a second-year PhD student at the University of #Amsterdam 🇳🇱, working on Recommender Systems #RecSys and Information Retrieval #IR.
I'm a second-year PhD student at the University of #Amsterdam 🇳🇱, working on Recommender Systems #RecSys and Information Retrieval #IR.
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Let’s collaborate on democratizing insights from tabular data in Amsterdam! ✨
PhD directions: 1) fundamental techniques for tabular foundation models, 2) reliable mechanisms for AI-powered tabular data analysis.
Sharing w/ friends appreciated! ⬇️
PhD directions: 1) fundamental techniques for tabular foundation models, 2) reliable mechanisms for AI-powered tabular data analysis.
Sharing w/ friends appreciated! ⬇️
🏹 Job alert: 2 fully-funded PhD Positions at Table Representation Learning Lab - @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social
📍 Amsterdam 🇳🇱
📅 Apply by June 30
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4519pj1
📍 Amsterdam 🇳🇱
📅 Apply by June 30
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4519pj1
Open positions | TRL Lab
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June 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Let’s collaborate on democratizing insights from tabular data in Amsterdam! ✨
PhD directions: 1) fundamental techniques for tabular foundation models, 2) reliable mechanisms for AI-powered tabular data analysis.
Sharing w/ friends appreciated! ⬇️
PhD directions: 1) fundamental techniques for tabular foundation models, 2) reliable mechanisms for AI-powered tabular data analysis.
Sharing w/ friends appreciated! ⬇️
Today's funny tokenization realization: The GPT4 tokenizer has 1 single token for the entire lower- and uppercase alphabet.
February 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Today's funny tokenization realization: The GPT4 tokenizer has 1 single token for the entire lower- and uppercase alphabet.
IRLab Amsterdam made it to Bluesky! Go give @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social a follow for all things RecSys, IR, RAG, Conv AI, etc!
February 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
IRLab Amsterdam made it to Bluesky! Go give @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social a follow for all things RecSys, IR, RAG, Conv AI, etc!
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I'll get straight to the point.
We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.
Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.
It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵
We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.
Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.
It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵
December 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
I'll get straight to the point.
We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.
Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.
It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵
We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.
Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.
It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵
Congratulations dr. Zihan Wang! It was an honor to be your paranymph.
December 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Congratulations dr. Zihan Wang! It was an honor to be your paranymph.
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🚨 PhD position alert! 🚨
I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @uva-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...
I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @uva-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...
PhD Position in Mechanistic Interpretability
PhD Position in Mechanistic Interpretability
vacatures.uva.nl
December 2, 2024 at 7:36 PM
🚨 PhD position alert! 🚨
I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @uva-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...
I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @uva-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
December 1, 2024 at 9:45 AM
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
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Yesterday @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social hosted the yearly NeurIPS-Fest, a pre-party for NeurIPS with a keynote talk, poster session, drinks and bites! 🍺🍻
The keynote was by @canaesseth.bsky.social , who talked about "Diffusion, Flows and other stories", presenting his 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS! 💥
The keynote was by @canaesseth.bsky.social , who talked about "Diffusion, Flows and other stories", presenting his 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS! 💥
November 29, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Yesterday @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social hosted the yearly NeurIPS-Fest, a pre-party for NeurIPS with a keynote talk, poster session, drinks and bites! 🍺🍻
The keynote was by @canaesseth.bsky.social , who talked about "Diffusion, Flows and other stories", presenting his 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS! 💥
The keynote was by @canaesseth.bsky.social , who talked about "Diffusion, Flows and other stories", presenting his 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS! 💥
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I'm looking for an intern to introduce Sparse Embedding models to Sentence Transformers! If you're passionate about open source, interested in helping practitioners use your tools, and enjoy embedders/retrievers/rerankers, then I'd love to hear from you!
Links with details and to apply in 🧵
Links with details and to apply in 🧵
November 27, 2024 at 2:31 PM
I'm looking for an intern to introduce Sparse Embedding models to Sentence Transformers! If you're passionate about open source, interested in helping practitioners use your tools, and enjoy embedders/retrievers/rerankers, then I'd love to hear from you!
Links with details and to apply in 🧵
Links with details and to apply in 🧵
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And we have a #Dagstuhl Report!
Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. Edited by @christinebauer.bsky.social, @evazangerle.bsky.social, and myself. Written by a whole host of fantastic #recsys people. Too many to mention (pic here www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...)
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc...
Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. Edited by @christinebauer.bsky.social, @evazangerle.bsky.social, and myself. Written by a whole host of fantastic #recsys people. Too many to mention (pic here www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...)
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc...
Evaluation Perspectives of Recommender Systems: Driving Research and Education (Dagstuhl Seminar 24211)
drops.dagstuhl.de
November 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
And we have a #Dagstuhl Report!
Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. Edited by @christinebauer.bsky.social, @evazangerle.bsky.social, and myself. Written by a whole host of fantastic #recsys people. Too many to mention (pic here www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...)
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc...
Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. Edited by @christinebauer.bsky.social, @evazangerle.bsky.social, and myself. Written by a whole host of fantastic #recsys people. Too many to mention (pic here www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...)
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc...
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I think it would be hard to beat the Probabilistic Machine Learning books by Kevin Murphy. probml.github.io/pml-book/
“Probabilistic machine learning”: a book series by Kevin Murphy
“Probabilistic Machine Learning” - a book series by Kevin Murphy
probml.github.io
November 25, 2024 at 8:50 AM
I think it would be hard to beat the Probabilistic Machine Learning books by Kevin Murphy. probml.github.io/pml-book/
I'm looking for a textbook to take me through fundamental ML concepts again. Not too applied, and preferably with a Deep Learning angle. Currently considering the new Deep Learning book by Bishop, but maybe my Bluesky following has different recommendations. Let me know :)
November 25, 2024 at 8:31 AM
I'm looking for a textbook to take me through fundamental ML concepts again. Not too applied, and preferably with a Deep Learning angle. Currently considering the new Deep Learning book by Bishop, but maybe my Bluesky following has different recommendations. Let me know :)
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Things you need as a PhD student:
- coffee ☕
- a living stipend 💰
- a website 🔗
For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html
- coffee ☕
- a living stipend 💰
- a website 🔗
For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html
Every Academic Needs a Website
www.kiragoldner.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Things you need as a PhD student:
- coffee ☕
- a living stipend 💰
- a website 🔗
For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html
- coffee ☕
- a living stipend 💰
- a website 🔗
For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html
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No one can explain stochastic gradient descent better than this panda.
a panda bear is rolling around in the grass in a zoo enclosure .
Alt: a panda bear is rolling around in the grass in a zoo enclosure .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:04 PM
No one can explain stochastic gradient descent better than this panda.
This is such a great start of every week for me.
Credits to Sumit for compiling such an easy to digest newsletter on #IR, #RAG and #RecSys.
open.substack.com/pub/recsys?r...
Credits to Sumit for compiling such an easy to digest newsletter on #IR, #RAG and #RecSys.
open.substack.com/pub/recsys?r...
Top Information Retrieval Papers of the Week | Sumit | Substack
A weekly curated newsletter about the latest research papers in the Information Retrieval domain, including Recommender Systems, Search, Retrieval, and Ranking. Click to read Top Information Retrieval...
open.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:42 PM
This is such a great start of every week for me.
Credits to Sumit for compiling such an easy to digest newsletter on #IR, #RAG and #RecSys.
open.substack.com/pub/recsys?r...
Credits to Sumit for compiling such an easy to digest newsletter on #IR, #RAG and #RecSys.
open.substack.com/pub/recsys?r...
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Creating a 🦋 starter pack for people working in IR/RAG: go.bsky.app/88ULgwY
I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!
I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!
November 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Creating a 🦋 starter pack for people working in IR/RAG: go.bsky.app/88ULgwY
I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!
I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!
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As people are slowly moving over, I thought I'd make a list of people on here who work on IR & RecSys in Amsterdam. Who am I missing? Both researchers and engineers :)
go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2
go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2
November 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
As people are slowly moving over, I thought I'd make a list of people on here who work on IR & RecSys in Amsterdam. Who am I missing? Both researchers and engineers :)
go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2
go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2
As people are slowly moving over, I thought I'd make a list of people on here who work on IR & RecSys in Amsterdam. Who am I missing? Both researchers and engineers :)
go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2
go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2
November 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
As people are slowly moving over, I thought I'd make a list of people on here who work on IR & RecSys in Amsterdam. Who am I missing? Both researchers and engineers :)
go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2
go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2
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decided to create a RecSys (and adjacent) starter pack with @vickiboykis.com @beeonaposy.bsky.social et al
who am I missing?
go.bsky.app/RGf9BvY
who am I missing?
go.bsky.app/RGf9BvY
October 29, 2024 at 11:39 AM
decided to create a RecSys (and adjacent) starter pack with @vickiboykis.com @beeonaposy.bsky.social et al
who am I missing?
go.bsky.app/RGf9BvY
who am I missing?
go.bsky.app/RGf9BvY
A brief introduction of myself should be a good idea after moving from the other platform to here :)
I'm a second-year PhD student at the University of #Amsterdam 🇳🇱, working on Recommender Systems #RecSys and Information Retrieval #IR.
I'm a second-year PhD student at the University of #Amsterdam 🇳🇱, working on Recommender Systems #RecSys and Information Retrieval #IR.
November 18, 2024 at 12:28 PM
A brief introduction of myself should be a good idea after moving from the other platform to here :)
I'm a second-year PhD student at the University of #Amsterdam 🇳🇱, working on Recommender Systems #RecSys and Information Retrieval #IR.
I'm a second-year PhD student at the University of #Amsterdam 🇳🇱, working on Recommender Systems #RecSys and Information Retrieval #IR.
Currently writing up a report on the IR summer school that we organized here in Amsterdam. The lectures are publicly available and provide a great introduction to anyone interested in IR. Thought I'd share: 2024.essir.eu/talks
ESSIR 2024 - Talks
Monday - July 1st
2024.essir.eu
November 18, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Currently writing up a report on the IR summer school that we organized here in Amsterdam. The lectures are publicly available and provide a great introduction to anyone interested in IR. Thought I'd share: 2024.essir.eu/talks
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Pls repost:
We, the DEEM Lab at TU Berlin, are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in data engineering for machine learning. Details available at:
deem.berlin#jobs-57624
This fully-funded position is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD).
#databs #datasky
We, the DEEM Lab at TU Berlin, are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in data engineering for machine learning. Details available at:
deem.berlin#jobs-57624
This fully-funded position is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD).
#databs #datasky
November 15, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Pls repost:
We, the DEEM Lab at TU Berlin, are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in data engineering for machine learning. Details available at:
deem.berlin#jobs-57624
This fully-funded position is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD).
#databs #datasky
We, the DEEM Lab at TU Berlin, are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in data engineering for machine learning. Details available at:
deem.berlin#jobs-57624
This fully-funded position is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD).
#databs #datasky
