I live in London. 🔴⚪ I am a researcher at DeepMind and work on AI for sign languages, among other things. I play the cello.
London, England
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Amazing find. Living in the future. But I’m not sure I’m more surprised that people or machines didn’t find it sooner. Both are sort of surprising.
First-price auctions are simple and (provably) good, and this is good news. Impressively thorough results from @_onionesque @jacobeisenstein and friends
Check out our paper on whether first-price auctions can efficiently allocate queries among strategic AI agents (in a decentralized serving-time market):
arxiv.org/abs/2610.20587
Single colab experiments still show us important things in 2026.
Wrote a little Colab for "Planning to Learn".
Runs in ~3 mins on a free T4 GPU:
- Exact PG loses to cross-entropy, even on accuracy.
- The horizon loss beats both.
- Planning CE even beats CE on its own NLL metric.
Nothing hidden... Run it yourself!
colab.research.google.com/dr…
I'm so happy to be able to announce the first general purpose sign-language-to-text translation (SL2T) model from my team that's out today and powering a new ASL input feature on @Android phones (and don't worry, we're not stopping at ASL).
Many, many thanks to them for seeing this through! I also want to thank @GoogleDeepMind for being the best place on earth to do pathbreaking work like this.
Read more (or watch in ASL and International Sign) at deepmind.google/blog/putting…
Great work, everyone! :)
Outstanding paper 3🏆: Don't lie to your friends: Learning what you know from collaborative self-play
openreview.net/forum?id=2vDJ…
Super proud of what this team is doing! And I can’t wait to share more soon.
We're thrilled to announce SignGemma, our most capable model for translating sign language into spoken text. 🧏
This open model is coming to the Gemma model family later this year, opening up new possibilities for inclusive tech.
Share your feedback and interest in early testing → goo.gle/SignGemma
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2️⃣SignGemma is a sign language understanding model that’s coming later this year 🤟🏼It’s a massively multilingual model that’s best at translating ASL into English text, enabling further development of tech access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing users. 🧏
Share your feedback and interest in early testing here: goo.gle/SignGemma
Terrific opportunity in London with a great team working on multimodal learning and eval.
I am hiring for RS/RE positions! If you are interested in language-flavored multimodal learning, evaluation, or post-training apply here 🦎 boards.greenhouse.io/deepmin…
I will also be #NeurIPS2024 so come say hi! (Please email me to find time to chat)
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We maintain strong zero-shot transfer of CLIP and SigLIP when varying model size and data scale, while achieving up to 4x few-shot sample efficiency and up to +16% performance gains!
Fun project with @confusezius, @zeynepakata, @dimadamen and @olivierhenaff.
🤔Can you turn your vision-language model from a great zero-shot model to a great-at-any-shot generalist?
Turns out you can, and here is how: arxiv.org/abs/2411.15099
Really excited to share our latest work on multimodal pretraining!
🧵A short and hopefully informative thread:
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🚀 Join the Gemini Multilinguality team @GoogleDeepMind 🌐 We’re looking for researchers passionate about making LLMs helpful for all. Dramatically improve model quality, coverage, and cultural relevance across hundreds of languages. #NLProc #MultilingualAI #i18n #LLMs boards.greenhouse.io/deepmin…
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We’re presenting the first AI to solve International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver medalist level.🥈
It combines AlphaProof, a new breakthrough model for formal reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our previous system. 🧵 dpmd.ai/imo-silver
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DEADLINE March 29: prepare and submit your application for EEML 2024, Novi Sad, Serbia eeml.eu 🇷🇸. Topics: Basics of ML, Multimodal learning, NLP, Advanced DL architectures, Generative models, AI for Science. Check our stellar speakers! Scholarships available! 🎉
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You are looking at the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, grown from 32,000-year-old seeds! A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, native to Siberia buried by an Ice Age squirrel, successfully germinated it
nationalgeographic.com/scien…
more cool stuff in this release from the amazing folks at GDM.
Today developers can start building with our first version of Gemini Pro through Google AI Studio at ai.google.dev.
Developers have a free quota and access to a full range of features including function calling, embeddings, semantic retrieval, custom knowledge grounding, chat functionality and more. It supports 38 languages across 180+ countries. Gemini Ultra is coming early next year. We’re excited to see what you build! blog.google/technology/ai/ge…
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The Gemini era is here. Thrilled to launch Gemini 1.0, our most capable & general AI model. Built to be natively multimodal, it can understand many types of info. Efficient & flexible, it comes in 3 sizes each best-in-class & optimized for different uses blog.google/technology/ai/go…
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Introducing COLM (colmweb.org) the Conference on Language Modeling. A new research venue dedicated to the theory, practice, and applications of language models.
Submissions: March 15 (it's pronounced "collum" 🕊️)
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Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll.
The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple."
scrollprize.org/firstletters
Congratulations to 21yo computer science student @LukeFarritor who is the first person to see this handwriting in nearly 2000 years. He has won the $40,000 First Letters prize for this world-historical achievement.
We are also awarding a $10,000 First Ink prize to @CJHandmer who was the first person to see ink and multiple letters within an unopened scroll. His work was the basis of Luke's ML model.
And @Youssef_M_Nader has won a $10,000 second-place First Letters prize for producing the clearest and most comprehensive images from inside a scroll yet.
This has been the dream of many people since the scrolls were first discovered in the 1750s. It is also the result of 20 years of work from Dr. Brent Seales and his team at EduceLab, whose years of dedicated work have made this last mile possible.
The $700,000 Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize is now in sight. Who will claim it?
