Excited to share that "The Discrete Gaussian for Differential Privacy," joint work with Clément Canonne (@ccanonne_) and Thomas Steinke (
@shortstein
), was selected for the 2024 Caspar Bowden PET Award! Honoured for this work to be recognized. 1/2
@thegautamkamath
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Discrete Gaussian Differential Privacy Wins Caspar Bowden Award
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Fine-Tuned Models Leak Private Pretraining Data Information
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Nice talk by John Abascal on "TMI! Finetuned Models Leak Private Information from their Pretraining Data," a joint work with @the_stanleywu
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UAI Conference Classification in AI Research
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This is deflecting from Jon's question, but UAI is not a top ML conference. It's an AI conference.
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PETS conference venue search leads to amusing misunderstanding at university
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I was looking for the conference venue so I told someone at university "I'm looking for PETS" and they rubbed my head wtf?
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ALT 2025 Conference in Milan: Submit Learning Theory Research
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ALT 2025 is going to be in Milan, Italy , in February 2025. Po-Ling Loh and I are the PC co-chairs. Submit your best learning theory work!
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Prestigious North American Schools Offer More Student Financial Aid
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c) at least in NA, the more prestigious the school, the more student aid they give
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Institutional Elitism in STEM Hiring Practices Remains Implicit
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Thanks for sharing your experience. This is quite surprising to me. In my corner of STEM, there is a huge amount of elitism around which institutions one attended. But this is a) usually implicit rather than explicit, b) would *never* be told to the candidate, and
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Top US Schools Now Offer 3-4K Monthly CS Stipends
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Many top US schools pay CS stipends of 3-4K per month now. Not lavish by any means. But perhaps enough to get by without taking another job or being independently wealthy? (I say this as someone with the privilege to not have had to worry about money in grad school)
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Music and AI: Researcher Demonstrates Creative AI Applications
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Fantastic "talk" by @pcastr at the @CIFAR_News #DLRL2024! In addition to being an excellent researcher, he's also a phenomenal musician. We asked him to present on music and AI and boy did he deliver. I expected some musical performance from him, I didn't expect to be part of it!
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Academic Jealousy: Navigating Colleague Success in Research
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Jealousy of (rather than happiness for) success of your friends and colleagues is such an annoying & difficult feeling. It comes up all the time as an academic: paper acceptances, awards, jobs. I even feel guilty on a W, since I know how friends might feel like it's their own L.