Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering @TMU_ecbe Faculty Affiliate @VectorInst
Ontario, Canada
Joined November 2017
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Superposition as Lossy Compression — Measure with Sparse Autoencoders and Connect to Adversarial ...
Leonard Bereska, Zoe Tzifa-Kratira, Reza Samavi, Stratis Gavves.
Action editor: Pin-Yu Chen.
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#autoencoder #superposition #ne
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VLMs (GPT-4o, Gemini, Qwen-VL, LLaVA…) look impressive — until you shift an image by 1 pixel.
A tiny, meaning-preserving change → a completely different answer.
This isn’t adversarial — it’s natural variation.
Watch 👇
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Check out the amazing @let4all Mentorship Workshop happening in just two weeks!
Theme: Harnessing AI for Research, Learning, and Communicating
Featuring an amazing lineup of speakers and also hands-on experience with ChatGPT Pro to see how to use AI to help your research.
Announcing the 7th Learning Theory Alliance mentoring workshop on November 20. Fully free & virtual!
Theme: Harnessing AI for Research, Learning, and Communicating
Participants will have advanced ChatGPT capabilities (TY @OpenAI!)
Ft @Aaroth @risteski_a @RICEric22 & more
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How can a robot traverse crowds of people? Checkout this press release about our crowd navigating robot.
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Jack, a wheeled #robot from our university, navigates crowds by predicting people’s paths and adjusting 10 times per second. Rather than stopping, it adapts smoothly to avoid collisions: go.tum.de/528400
#RoboticsInstituteGermany #AutonomousVehicles #AI
📷A. Eckert
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17 platforms where you can begin cybersecurity🚀
1. HackXpert - Free labs and training.
2. TryHackMe - Hands-on exercises and labs.
3. CyberSecLabs - High quality training labs.
4. Cybrary - Videos, labs, and practice exams.
5. LetsDefend - Blue team training platform.
6. Root Me - Over 400 cybersecurity challenges.
7. RangeForce - Interactive and hands-on platform.
8. Certified Secure - Loads of different challenges.
9. Vuln Machines - Real world scenarios to practice.
10. Try2Hack - Play a game based on the real attacks.
11. TCM Security - Entry level courses for cybersecurity.
12. EchoCTF - Train your offensive and defensive skills.
13. Hack The Box - Cybersecurity training platform.
14. Vuln Hub - Material for hands-on experience.
15. OverTheWire - Security concepts via challenges.
16. PentesterLab - Learn web-app penetration testing.
17. PortSwigger Web Security - General learning.
credit-Daniel Kelley
Reza Samavi retweeted
i like both AI and end-to-end encryption. can i have them all? we examine this question carefully in <How To Think About End-To-End Encryption and AI: Training, Processing, Disclosure, and Consent> by Knodel, Fabrega, Ferrari, Leiken, Hou, Yen, de Alfaro, Cho and Sunoo Park.
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Happy Robotic Holidays from the Learning Systems and Robotics Lab! Episode 1: Delivering Gifts.
Video: youtu.be/hqZ4NJLLot0
ALT Video: https://youtu.be/hqZ4NJLLot0
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Checkout our robot getting ready for the holidays using SICNav to move around!
Video: youtu.be/hqZ4NJLLot0
Paper: sepehr.fyi/projects/sicnav
Happy Robotic Holidays from the Learning Systems and Robotics Lab! Episode 1: Delivering Gifts.
Video: youtu.be/hqZ4NJLLot0
ALT Video: https://youtu.be/hqZ4NJLLot0
Reza Samavi retweeted
Our latest work Safe and Interactive Crowd Navigation (SICNav) has been accepted to @ieeeTRO! SICNav jointly solves planning and prediction while satisfying safety consts! Thanks @florian_shkurti @angelaschoellig
preprint & code: sepehr.fyi/projects/sicnav
youtu.be/BY23UXwM1sM
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.@thegautamkamath and his team have shown that the best robust estimators often translate to the best private estimators. This connection has important implications for designing statistical methods. Check it out below⬇️
vectorinstitute.ai/robustnes…
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I *really* enjoyed this post: very accessible and super educational. The first in a series of two, covering some very important results. Don't miss it!
Another new blog, this time on the optimal sample complexity of PAC learning, by @AdenIshaq @ycherapanamjeri @AShettyV and Nikita Zhivotovskiy. Check it out: let-all.com/blog/2024/06/06/…
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Universities have a computer science problem.
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This Friday we are hosting a talk featuring Princeton's Steven Kelts. Sign up here: forms.gle/RzomHoJv7G1BsY8r5
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Extended to February 18!
🗓️ The 37th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence hosted by @c_a_i_a_c takes place in person at @uofg (Guelph, Ontario) this year from May 27-31, 2024.
📝 The call for papers is now open! Submission deadline is February 11, 2024.
➡️ caiac.ca/en/conferences/cana…
ALT Exterior photo of a building on the University of Guelph campus in colour. Text showing name of conference and dates.
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Today's poster sessions at #Remarkable 2024 promise a glimpse into the cutting-edge AI research that's shaping our industry. Which sector of AI research interests you the most?
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Join us this week for the iBEST Visiting Lecturer Series presenting @TorontoMet professor @doctorsussman. Her talk "Improving Diagnostic Utility & Accuracy of Fetal MRI using AI & Imaging Phantoms" will be held on Feb. 9 at 1 p.m.
Learn more: bit.ly/3UonhyC
ALT iBEST (Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology) Visiting Lecturer Series: Improving Diagnostic Utility & Accuracy of Fetal MRI using AI & Imaging Phantoms Dr. Dafna Sussman, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto. Friday, February 9, 2024, 1 to 2 p.m. In-person & Virtual Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Auditorium Refreshments will be served
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Happy new year! As promised, I wrote a blog post on the #NeurIPS2023 Outstanding Paper on privacy auditing, by @shortstein, @srxzr, Matthew Jagielski.
Post is on @DiffPriv, 5 min read, written for a general ML audience. No knowlege of privacy needed!
Link in next tweet👇
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💡We brought together Vector Researchers for our Machine Learning Privacy & Security Workshop to discuss the importance of data privacy in our AI-driven world👇
vectorinstitute.ai/vector-co…