NSF AI Institute with researchers from @UTAustin, @UW, @WichitaState, @MSFTResearch, @UCBerkeley, @UCLA, @sfiscience, @Stanford, @Caltech, @ASU
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This is important work, led by Brad Knox.
What happens when AI starts to feel like a relationship?
A new paper from Sony AI explores the risks and benefits of AI companions. We spoke with two authors, Brad Knox and Peter Stone, about the research.
Read more: bit.ly/41WYEeE
#AI #AIResearch #AICompanionship
Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning retweeted
Looking for a seamless way to introduce AI into your Python-based CS courses? We’re inviting Python teachers to test out a new six-lesson “AI in Speech” module that fits right into a standard week of instruction! Apply by April 8! @MLFoundations
Apply: buff.ly/B90P5NE
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The University of Texas at Austin was the top recipient of National Science Foundation grants in fiscal year 2024 – a sign of UT's leadership in AI & computing. statesman.com/news/education…
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How can we make a better TerminalBench agent?
Today, we are announcing the OpenThoughts-Agent project.
OpenThoughts-Agent v1 is the first TerminalBench agent trained on fully open curated SFT and RL environments.
OpenThinker-Agent-v1 is the strongest model of its size on TerminalBench, and sets a new bar on our newly released OpenThoughts-TB-Dev benchmark. (1/n)
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Last week at @UTAustin @MLFoundations I gave a talk called “reasoning: a double edged sword.”
We went from language models generating new hypotheses about cancer cell behavior, to ChatGPT tackling fresh (simple) math conjectures, to reasoning powered jailbreaks.
youtube.com/watch?v=s-DABuTJ…
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CosmicAI PI and Director Stella Offner presenting during day 3 of the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) 2025 with NSF AI Institutes Virtual Organization (AIVO)! Stella spoke about leveraging AI Institute collaboration for advocacy.
@NSF @SimonsFdn @UTAustin
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Like 10day weather forecasting 10yr disease forecasting is a grand challenge in health. New work from our group combining virtually all data collectible from a person for state of the art prediction for coronary artery disease - the leading cause of death
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Today is a wonderful day!
Celebrating 2 first-author NeurIPS spotlight papers.
Both works are about training and sampling generative models in data-challenging settings.
I am also in the academic job market this year, seeking tenure-track positions in the US and the EU.
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Gave a talk @ Bloomberg on 2 recent papers: Performance Prediction for Long Generation arxiv.org/abs/2509.07309 & Aligning LLMs with Human Response Distributions arxiv.org/abs/2507.00439
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Our CTO #DataScience Speaker Series welcomes @UTiSchool's @mattlease for a virtual talk with our #AI researchers today about the use of relatively simple supervision to greatly improve #LLM alignment across different population groups
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#GenAI #NLProc
ALT Matthew Lease is a Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, a Distinguished Member of the ACM, and a Senior Member of AAAI.
Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning retweeted
🍎 📓 🔭 Welcome back, Longhorns!
There is nothing like the start of another school year.
We hope everyone is excited to experience the fullness of this special time, embarking on another semester filled with possibility!
#WhatStartsHere
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Our work unlocks new possibilities for AI on power- and bandwidth-constrained devices, like wearables and satellites. Congrats on winning the Best Paper Award, Dan!! @UT_SysML
Ph.D. student Dan Jacobellis and assistant professor Neeraja Yadwadkar (@NeerajaJY) have received the Capocelli Prize for Best Paper at the Data Compression Conference 2025. bit.ly/3RS0KYo
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Excited to join DevRev board of directors. DevRev has an impressive vision for AI agents and great understanding of where the real problems lie. Training real-world agents that are reliable and enterprise-ready will be a multi-year effort, and it all starts with reliable data and RL environments. I'm eager to help to make this vision a reality.
We’re excited to welcome Professor Alex Dimakis, AI researcher and co-founder of Bespoke Labs, to DevRev's Board of Directors.
A leader in AI reasoning, reinforcement learning, and open-source innovation, Alex helped shape models like Datacomp, DCLM, OpenThinker, and OpenThoughts, making them more transparent, accountable, and enterprise-ready.
His expertise will accelerate our mission to deliver trustworthy, explainable AI that works seamlessly in real-world enterprise workflows.
Read the full announcement: bit.ly/45hR5St
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Educational institutions are debuting AI courses, degrees and certifications, aiming to help people become AI “literate.”
While some worry AI could replace them at work, others hope education will help them get ahead. wapo.st/4liRZ65
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Congratulations to executive team member @PeterStone_TX, who received the ACM–AAAI Allen Newell Award for his contributions to AI and robotics. As a founding member of @GoodSystems, he’s advanced responsible, human-centered approaches to AI.
🎥 bit.ly/4fnOvhj
ALT Portrait of Peter Stone, smiling, in a dark suit and light blue shirt against a navy background.
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Delighted to announce that the 2nd edition of our workshop has been accepted to #NeurIPS2025!
We have an amazing lineup of speakers:
@WenSun1, @ajwagenmaker, @yayitsamyzhang, @MengdiWang10, @nanjiang_cs, Alessandro Lazaric, and a special guest!
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IFML (Institute of Foundations in Machine Learning) has been renewed!
Our work on learning from noisy data is highlighted in the announcement as one of the key directions for the next phase of IFML.
Very happy to be part of the IFML family and excited for the future!
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I am excited to announce that our AI institute (Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning, IFML) has been renewed.
IFML was part of the first cohort of AI Institutes announced in 2020. Led by UT Austin, the new award will build on the trajectory of the past five years and develop new foundational tools to advance generative AI. NSF IFML's work on diffusion models is a key technology behind major Google products, powering widely used generative models such as Stable Diffusion 3 and Flux. In it's next phase, NSF IFML will expand generative AI to new domains, including protein engineering, clinical imaging, new methods to handle noisy data, improve agent reliability and open source AI. (1/n)
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Huge congratulations to Adam Klivans, for renewing the NSF Institute for the Foundations of Machine Learning at UT Austin with intent to expand generative AI to protein engineering and clinical imaging. nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-1…
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Congratulations @MLFoundations
@UTAustin @UW @WichitaState @UCBerkeley @Stanford @Caltech all our partners and our fearless director Adam Klivans. Thank you @nsf !