Desi R. Ivanova
@desirivanova
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Research fellow @OxfordStats @OxCSML, former quant 📈 (@GoldmanSachs), former former gymnast 🤸♀️ My opinions are my own. 🇧🇬-🇬🇧 sh/ssh
Oxford, England
Joined December 2014
Incredibly honoured and grateful for this recognition!
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@tmdanis Another key finding: humans memorise a lot of training examples (but not all). In conclusion, humans do approximate retrieval
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@mbalunovic At least 3 (and likely more) of the problems seem to be on the internet (similar or identical), so AIME 2025 is very likely contaminated
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RT @epkaufm: DEI set to become a much more important criteria for ranking UK universities and allocating funding. Expect an orgy of indoctr…
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A tiny "embers of autoregression" artifact in simple arithmetic
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RT @OxfordStats: 🌟 Research Collaboration Morning 🌟 Our recent Research Collaboration Morning featured talks by @hrushikesh_loya (SGBE) &…
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RT @Thom_Wolf: Finally took time to go over Dario's essay on DeepSeek and export control and to be honest it was quite painful to read. And…
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I hope @Keir_Starmer and his government are taking notes. To “unleash AI across UK to boost growth” one has to invest in talent and compute at the very least. Hint: getting rid of triple lock will help! Move 💰 from the unproductive to those who will deliver the growth you’re after. While we are at it, starting salaries for junior faculty in places like Oxford are actually <£50K a year.
Couldn't agree more. "UK Research and Innovation funding in the UK fell under the previous government from 6,835 in 2018-19 to 4,900 in 2022-23". To give a concrete example (with my @UCLCS professor hat on): 4 out of 7 @UCL_DARK PhD students were funded by the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Foundational AI at @ai_ucl. @akbirkhan @LauraRuis @_robertkirk @PaglieriDavide won Best Paper Awards at international top-tier conference, made significant contributions to AI safety, expanded our understanding of how LLMs learn to reason, and built difficult evaluations of agentic capabilities of LLMs while many other benchmarks are saturating. @UCL_DARK alumni start startups (@WecoAI), work in leading AI labs like @GoogleDeepMind, @AnthropicAI, @AIatMeta, or work in government at @AISafetyInst. @UCL_DARK wouldn't be what it is today without that CDT funding. Yet, despite the tremendous success of the @UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence, the CDT was discontinued. @UCL_DARK now has six open positions for AI PhDs to start in Fall 2025, and it's unclear whether we will be able to make any funded offers. In turn, our lab is already significantly scaling down MSc thesis supervision, and thus not doing as much as we would like to train the next generation of AI experts. It the UK wants to have any chance at keeping up with AI, PhD funding, in addition to securing significant compute for academic research, should be their top two main priorities. Without these, the "talent" in the talent pipeline is missing. While we are at it, the starting salary for an assistant professor in the UK is in the range of £50K-60K which simply is not enough to attract international top faculty in AI to the UK. The third priority should be topping up AI postdoc and faculty salaries.
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RT @BlackHC: I have pre-shared the formal points the above message raises with NeurIPS to help them as well: Some have expressed concern a…
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RT @snobfox: @JohnRentoul @patrickkmaguire Labour’s net zero plans need grid scale battery storage, so talking civilly to Musk would be a g…
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@SumoTail @francoisfleuret For the same reason people buy a Patek these days 😂 (might be an unpopular opinion) I’d personally pick a GS over a Rolex any time
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@thegautamkamath I literally haven’t heard anyone complain about “too much interaction”, the issue normally is no interaction at all…
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RT @Barney_H_Y: This thread is crazy. If you’re not letting go of your bottom 10-20% of staff on a rolling basis it’s incredibly hard to b…
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Scalable optimisation in the modular norm. Direct to the point. 😀😀😀
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RT @finbarrtimbers: The bitter lesson is absolutely not over The bitter lesson is that it’s a mistake to bake in human biases/knowledge i…
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The news is out: this is an Ellison Institute of Technology @EITOxford programme and hence open to UK and non-UK candidates!
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Considering starting a side hustle to help video models 🤣
As cool as the new Sora is, gymnastics is still very much the Turing test for AI video. 1/4
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