Victor Escorcia
@escorciav.bsky.social
Father. AI Freelancer @ 🇮🇹. Ph.D. @KAUST_AEx. @AdobeResearch @Qualcomm_EU @samsungresearch 🇨🇴 self-diagnosed with n-personality-disorder ☮️❤️
😭 doesn't "no discourse" mean:
Let's pretend that X doesn't exist yet we're cooler than those in LinkedIn?
Also miss the old ML Twitter, specially during pandemic. The post-pandemic transition was highly affected by VCs taking the baton out of Cryptobros & diverting it onto "AI".
Let's pretend that X doesn't exist yet we're cooler than those in LinkedIn?
Also miss the old ML Twitter, specially during pandemic. The post-pandemic transition was highly affected by VCs taking the baton out of Cryptobros & diverting it onto "AI".
More context now that I’m not annoyed. I think I wanted this site to be old ML twitter too much and tried a bit much to make that happen. I’m just going back to old posting rules: once a day, no discourse, mostly papers
Deleted a post that was going viral and bringing an undesirable amount of attention from anonymous accounts. But, I'm going to be honest, the toxic folks here have won. So much of the usage of the site is about avoiding their attention. I'll just use this site to get book recs going forward
December 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
😭 doesn't "no discourse" mean:
Let's pretend that X doesn't exist yet we're cooler than those in LinkedIn?
Also miss the old ML Twitter, specially during pandemic. The post-pandemic transition was highly affected by VCs taking the baton out of Cryptobros & diverting it onto "AI".
Let's pretend that X doesn't exist yet we're cooler than those in LinkedIn?
Also miss the old ML Twitter, specially during pandemic. The post-pandemic transition was highly affected by VCs taking the baton out of Cryptobros & diverting it onto "AI".
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Due to the minor delay in releasing the review assignments, we are extending the #CVPR2026 review deadline for reviewers. Please see OpenReview for the updated timelines.
December 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Due to the minor delay in releasing the review assignments, we are extending the #CVPR2026 review deadline for reviewers. Please see OpenReview for the updated timelines.
Academic hamster wheel, tenure not granted
December 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Academic hamster wheel, tenure not granted
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Kicking off our #ECCV2026 social media coverage is the Call for Tutorials!
Link: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
Link: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Kicking off our #ECCV2026 social media coverage is the Call for Tutorials!
Link: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
Link: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
As PhD student I used to hate writing, these days less. But, afair I always like (micro-)blogging. Thus,
I decided to serve as reviewer for @iclr-conf.bsky.social Blog post Track 😊. Any advice, beyond what chairs have shared, for a rookie blog reviewer?
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2026/reviewi...
I decided to serve as reviewer for @iclr-conf.bsky.social Blog post Track 😊. Any advice, beyond what chairs have shared, for a rookie blog reviewer?
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2026/reviewi...
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
As PhD student I used to hate writing, these days less. But, afair I always like (micro-)blogging. Thus,
I decided to serve as reviewer for @iclr-conf.bsky.social Blog post Track 😊. Any advice, beyond what chairs have shared, for a rookie blog reviewer?
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2026/reviewi...
I decided to serve as reviewer for @iclr-conf.bsky.social Blog post Track 😊. Any advice, beyond what chairs have shared, for a rookie blog reviewer?
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2026/reviewi...
Left my friend house, so lost access to their bookshelf. Now, what?
Passed by a store & bought a couple of Christmas gifts 🎁🎅🏼🎄
Passed by a store & bought a couple of Christmas gifts 🎁🎅🏼🎄
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Left my friend house, so lost access to their bookshelf. Now, what?
Passed by a store & bought a couple of Christmas gifts 🎁🎅🏼🎄
Passed by a store & bought a couple of Christmas gifts 🎁🎅🏼🎄
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Training #robots to pour a drink? 🤖🥛 This project teaches robots to understand human actions and sequences.
Using over 1M videos and @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social's @lumi-supercomputer.eu
Researchers move robots beyond code to learning by seeing.
👉link.europa.eu/HHn6wR
#EuroHPC #AI #Robot
Using over 1M videos and @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social's @lumi-supercomputer.eu
Researchers move robots beyond code to learning by seeing.
👉link.europa.eu/HHn6wR
#EuroHPC #AI #Robot
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Training #robots to pour a drink? 🤖🥛 This project teaches robots to understand human actions and sequences.
Using over 1M videos and @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social's @lumi-supercomputer.eu
Researchers move robots beyond code to learning by seeing.
👉link.europa.eu/HHn6wR
#EuroHPC #AI #Robot
Using over 1M videos and @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social's @lumi-supercomputer.eu
Researchers move robots beyond code to learning by seeing.
👉link.europa.eu/HHn6wR
#EuroHPC #AI #Robot
Applying for a job that you don't have all (wish-list) skills, credentials, &/or internal referral
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Applying for a job that you don't have all (wish-list) skills, credentials, &/or internal referral
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ICML reaffirms its support to the community and standards of conduct:
- We do not tolerate harassment or other improper conduct;
- Academic integrity is paramount;
- We redouble our support to peer review, with more incentives for reviewers & financial support for OpenReview
icml.cc/public/blog#...
- We do not tolerate harassment or other improper conduct;
- Academic integrity is paramount;
- We redouble our support to peer review, with more incentives for reviewers & financial support for OpenReview
icml.cc/public/blog#...
December 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
ICML reaffirms its support to the community and standards of conduct:
- We do not tolerate harassment or other improper conduct;
- Academic integrity is paramount;
- We redouble our support to peer review, with more incentives for reviewers & financial support for OpenReview
icml.cc/public/blog#...
- We do not tolerate harassment or other improper conduct;
- Academic integrity is paramount;
- We redouble our support to peer review, with more incentives for reviewers & financial support for OpenReview
icml.cc/public/blog#...
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🏹 Job alert: 15 PhD positions in the BRIDGE-AI Doctoral Network (AI-Health)
📍 Various cities in 🇫🇮 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇦🇹
📅 Apply by Jan 30th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4q6ND4M
📍 Various cities in 🇫🇮 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇦🇹
📅 Apply by Jan 30th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4q6ND4M
Open PhD positions - Bridge-AI
The BRIDGE-AI doctoral network is hiring 15 ambitious doctoral candidates at various locations in Europe (Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Austria). The aim of the network i...
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
🏹 Job alert: 15 PhD positions in the BRIDGE-AI Doctoral Network (AI-Health)
📍 Various cities in 🇫🇮 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇦🇹
📅 Apply by Jan 30th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4q6ND4M
📍 Various cities in 🇫🇮 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇦🇹
📅 Apply by Jan 30th
🔗 https://bit.ly/4q6ND4M
📖❓Which one will you skim next?
1. Range
2. Stop talking Start Doing
3. Meh enjoy 🏴 sweet treats
1. Range
2. Stop talking Start Doing
3. Meh enjoy 🏴 sweet treats
December 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
📖❓Which one will you skim next?
1. Range
2. Stop talking Start Doing
3. Meh enjoy 🏴 sweet treats
1. Range
2. Stop talking Start Doing
3. Meh enjoy 🏴 sweet treats
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I keep telling this to students. If you really want to do SAE research, just find a great classic paper on topic modeling and reimplement it using SAEs. I don’t think anyone would really notice.
Interpretable Embeddings with Sparse Autoencoders: A Data Analysis Toolkit
Analyzing large-scale text corpora is a core challenge in machine learning, crucial for tasks like identifying undesirable model behaviors or biases in training data. Current methods often rely on cos...
arxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I keep telling this to students. If you really want to do SAE research, just find a great classic paper on topic modeling and reimplement it using SAEs. I don’t think anyone would really notice.
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Since this take is so completely wrong I have to repost as well.
The posted figure is only showing the top-50.
No shit it's gonna show the biggest companies and unis.
There's a productive conversation to be had, but this aint it.
aiworld.eu/story/from-b...
The posted figure is only showing the top-50.
No shit it's gonna show the biggest companies and unis.
There's a productive conversation to be had, but this aint it.
aiworld.eu/story/from-b...
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Since this take is so completely wrong I have to repost as well.
The posted figure is only showing the top-50.
No shit it's gonna show the biggest companies and unis.
There's a productive conversation to be had, but this aint it.
aiworld.eu/story/from-b...
The posted figure is only showing the top-50.
No shit it's gonna show the biggest companies and unis.
There's a productive conversation to be had, but this aint it.
aiworld.eu/story/from-b...
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Introducing Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models built by "byteifying" our open Olmo 3—and to our knowledge, the first fully open byte-level LM to match or surpass SOTA subword models across a wide range of tasks. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Introducing Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models built by "byteifying" our open Olmo 3—and to our knowledge, the first fully open byte-level LM to match or surpass SOTA subword models across a wide range of tasks. 🧵
Noble idea, consider participating!
Did smth at smaller scale during pandemic, then gave up as I got sick with bureaucracy of PAMI-TC & ECVA 🤢, governing bodies behind: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV. Decided that it's better to drive change by setting up strong foundations for LxCV's PC, the CV chapter of LXAI.
Did smth at smaller scale during pandemic, then gave up as I got sick with bureaucracy of PAMI-TC & ECVA 🤢, governing bodies behind: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV. Decided that it's better to drive change by setting up strong foundations for LxCV's PC, the CV chapter of LXAI.
I'm working on a piece about peer review and conference publication in AI/ML/NLP/CV, and I need YOUR help to understand how the community uses conferences and peer review in paper discovery.
Your four short multiple choice answers will help a lot :)
Your four short multiple choice answers will help a lot :)
Paper discovery survey
I'm working on a piece about peer review and want to understand how people in the (primarily AI/ML/NLP/CV) CS community discover new papers to read.
I am only talking about totally incidental discove...
docs.google.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Noble idea, consider participating!
Did smth at smaller scale during pandemic, then gave up as I got sick with bureaucracy of PAMI-TC & ECVA 🤢, governing bodies behind: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV. Decided that it's better to drive change by setting up strong foundations for LxCV's PC, the CV chapter of LXAI.
Did smth at smaller scale during pandemic, then gave up as I got sick with bureaucracy of PAMI-TC & ECVA 🤢, governing bodies behind: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV. Decided that it's better to drive change by setting up strong foundations for LxCV's PC, the CV chapter of LXAI.
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Worried about AI’s military uses? We are too. We’re organising an ICLR 2026 workshop on AI research and military applications—dual-use risks, transparency, accountability, and ethical/legal governance & policy. Details + paper submissions: see Noa’s post and visit aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io.
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Worried about AI’s military uses? We are too. We’re organising an ICLR 2026 workshop on AI research and military applications—dual-use risks, transparency, accountability, and ethical/legal governance & policy. Details + paper submissions: see Noa’s post and visit aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io.
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We're ready to connect at the ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest...in Barcelona 🇪🇸
On Dec 17th at Cosmocaixa Barcelona, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the broader ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Barcelona.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/3MGqtDO
On Dec 17th at Cosmocaixa Barcelona, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the broader ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Barcelona.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/3MGqtDO
December 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
We're ready to connect at the ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest...in Barcelona 🇪🇸
On Dec 17th at Cosmocaixa Barcelona, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the broader ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Barcelona.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/3MGqtDO
On Dec 17th at Cosmocaixa Barcelona, meet the local AI/ML community and connect with the broader ELLIS network with the ELLIS Unit Barcelona.
🔗 More info → https://bit.ly/3MGqtDO
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𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗟𝗟𝗠-𝟮𝟮𝗕 launched: fully open 22B multilingual LLM for all EU languages, built by a Europe-wide consortium (ELLIS involved), incl. @andre-t-martins.bsky.social (@ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social)
ℹ️ Learn more & access the model:
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pIYVMK
🔗 https://bit.ly/4j33XRI
ℹ️ Learn more & access the model:
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pIYVMK
🔗 https://bit.ly/4j33XRI
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗟𝗟𝗠-𝟮𝟮𝗕 launched: fully open 22B multilingual LLM for all EU languages, built by a Europe-wide consortium (ELLIS involved), incl. @andre-t-martins.bsky.social (@ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social)
ℹ️ Learn more & access the model:
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pIYVMK
🔗 https://bit.ly/4j33XRI
ℹ️ Learn more & access the model:
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pIYVMK
🔗 https://bit.ly/4j33XRI
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Open models year in review.
What a year! We're back with an updated open model builder tier list, our top models of the year, and our predictions for 2026.
www.interconnects.ai/p/2025-open-...
What a year! We're back with an updated open model builder tier list, our top models of the year, and our predictions for 2026.
www.interconnects.ai/p/2025-open-...
December 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Open models year in review.
What a year! We're back with an updated open model builder tier list, our top models of the year, and our predictions for 2026.
www.interconnects.ai/p/2025-open-...
What a year! We're back with an updated open model builder tier list, our top models of the year, and our predictions for 2026.
www.interconnects.ai/p/2025-open-...
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If someone with communication and/or influence training wants to help me out, I'm writing a piece on a conflict on which I would like not to make image-related mistakes.
Do reach out. Thanks!
Do reach out. Thanks!
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If someone with communication and/or influence training wants to help me out, I'm writing a piece on a conflict on which I would like not to make image-related mistakes.
Do reach out. Thanks!
Do reach out. Thanks!
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JustHTML by @emilstenstrom.bsky.social is a new Python library (no dependencies) that parses HTML according to the HTML5 specification and passes the 9,200 test html5lib-tests suite
It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...
It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...
JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action
I recently came across JustHTML, a new Python library for parsing HTML released by Emil Stenström. It’s a very interesting piece of software, both as a useful library and as …
simonwillison.net
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
JustHTML by @emilstenstrom.bsky.social is a new Python library (no dependencies) that parses HTML according to the HTML5 specification and passes the 9,200 test html5lib-tests suite
It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...
It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...
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Such an excellent documentary about the origins of the Python language (and Anaconda and much more). I learned sooo much. Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
The Story of Python and how it took over the world | Python: The Documentary
YouTube video by CultRepo
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Such an excellent documentary about the origins of the Python language (and Anaconda and much more). I learned sooo much. Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
Btw if ppl are reluctant to travel to the 🇺🇸 yet wanna gather to discuss CVPR papers, I strongly encourage to get in touch with Voxel51 (@jasoncorso.bsky.social & Co).
They've been running online zoom events (posted also in Yt) as: "The best of"
They've been running online zoom events (posted also in Yt) as: "The best of
Indeed! My two cents/Qs:
1. Why are we even talking about an EurCVPR with @eccv.bsky.social around the corner?
Moreover,
2. AFAIU BVMC was struggling to find organizers few years ago. @bmvcconf.bsky.social Have you even checked their calls?
1. Why are we even talking about an EurCVPR with @eccv.bsky.social around the corner?
Moreover,
2. AFAIU BVMC was struggling to find organizers few years ago. @bmvcconf.bsky.social Have you even checked their calls?
December 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Btw if ppl are reluctant to travel to the 🇺🇸 yet wanna gather to discuss CVPR papers, I strongly encourage to get in touch with Voxel51 (@jasoncorso.bsky.social & Co).
They've been running online zoom events (posted also in Yt) as: "The best of"
They've been running online zoom events (posted also in Yt) as: "The best of
Hot take: “someone is the average of 5 people” gets used as networking (optimizing growth) advice.
Backman’s “7 humans” hit different: it’s less about leverage, more about loyalty + attention.
Choose them. Show up. Repeat. 🧠❤️
open.spotify.com/episode/4FGQ...
Backman’s “7 humans” hit different: it’s less about leverage, more about loyalty + attention.
Choose them. Show up. Repeat. 🧠❤️
open.spotify.com/episode/4FGQ...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Hot take: “someone is the average of 5 people” gets used as networking (optimizing growth) advice.
Backman’s “7 humans” hit different: it’s less about leverage, more about loyalty + attention.
Choose them. Show up. Repeat. 🧠❤️
open.spotify.com/episode/4FGQ...
Backman’s “7 humans” hit different: it’s less about leverage, more about loyalty + attention.
Choose them. Show up. Repeat. 🧠❤️
open.spotify.com/episode/4FGQ...
LLMs are here. The choice isn’t ‘allow vs ban
It’s ‘transparent & governed vs underground & chaotic.’ Also: conferences can’t keep scaling while running on volunteer (reviewers & authors) burnout.
It’s ‘transparent & governed vs underground & chaotic.’ Also: conferences can’t keep scaling while running on volunteer (reviewers & authors) burnout.
Announcing the ICML 2026 policy for LLMs in reviewing! Reviewers and authors both pick either conservative or permissive LLM use, and will be matched accordingly. Importantly: authors on papers who choose conservative must obey the conservative policy as reviewers.
December 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
LLMs are here. The choice isn’t ‘allow vs ban
It’s ‘transparent & governed vs underground & chaotic.’ Also: conferences can’t keep scaling while running on volunteer (reviewers & authors) burnout.
It’s ‘transparent & governed vs underground & chaotic.’ Also: conferences can’t keep scaling while running on volunteer (reviewers & authors) burnout.