vladimir iashin

researcher of deep learning @Revolut; ex-@Oxford_VGG
1706.03762 ❤️

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

I will be attending ICML in Seoul next week.

We are presenting PRAGMA Revolut’s foundation model on one of the workshops (FMSD) on Saturday.

DM me if you’d like to meet to discuss financial foundation models or enjoy some great coffee in the city.

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Noticed that Copilot feels less useful in .ipynb files compared to .py 🤔 🤔

Could it be the bloated .ipynb markup format? It's also why version-controlling these files is such a pain.

Surely there’s a way to make Copilot strip the clutter.

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Attending #ICASSP2024 in Seoul? Don't miss our presentation on Synchformer (https://t.co/dcAiXR6mCM) this Tuesday at 13:10.

Also, let me know if you'd like to meet in Seoul next week!

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

📢 Thrilled to share that our paper on "Synchformer: Efficient Synchronization from Sparse Cues" got accepted at #ICASSP24!

🎉 Huge shoutout to the amazing team: @WeidiXie, Esa Rahtu, and Andrew Zisserman!

Code: https://t.co/z9cKvBBZ3D
arXiv: https://t.co/64I5N14V89

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

📢 Thrilled to share that our paper on "Synchformer: Efficient Synchronization from Sparse Cues" got accepted at #ICASSP24!

🎉 Huge shoutout to the amazing team: @WeidiXie, Esa Rahtu, and Andrew Zisserman!

Code: https://t.co/z9cKvBBZ3D
arXiv: https://t.co/64I5N14V89

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Excited to share that I've joined @Oxford_VGG as a postdoc 🤖!

I'll be pursuing my passion for designing more advanced multi-modal models for video understanding 🔈🌆📽️🔬. Couldn't have asked for a better group to be a part of.

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

@y_m_asano Also, I would like to express my gratitude to my wonderful reviewers @andrewhowens and @RSerizel for their invaluable feedback and punctual submission of their reviews. Your support was crucial in making this project a success. Thank you!

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Thrilled to share that I've successfully defended my PhD thesis, marking the end of an incredible journey. It was an honour to defend against such a brilliant and accomplished scholar @y_m_asano.

Also excited to announce that I'll be joining the VGG as a post-doc later this year

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Just moved my web-based object detector app from a cloud instance to HuggingFace Spaces ❤️, and updated the interface to Gradio✨(prev HTML/CSS + JS mess 🦖)

Also, decided to check the upload trend over the years. Didn't expect it to gain this traction👀

https://t.co/rnUaKx9Rfo

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Curious about how the newly released GPT-4's VQA capabilities will improve the online experience for visually impaired individuals.

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Today marks one year since Putin's senseless war in Ukraine began. My heart goes out to the Ukrainian people who have suffered greatly. It's time to end this horrendous conflict! We must work towards a peaceful resolution and support Ukraine in its pursuit of sovereignty.

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

With the emergence of new chatbots like ChatGPT, text scraped from the web may become less useful for training LLMs.

At least, the 'fake/real' classifier will be a necessary part of the pre-processing pipeline.

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Our paper was accepted at #BMVC2022 (Spotlight) 🎉

"Sparse in Space and Time: Audio-visual Synchronisation with Trainable Selectors"

Paper, code & colab: https://t.co/jScsGt9QX2

I couldn’t wish for better collaborators. Many thanks to @WeidiXie, Esa Rahtu, and Andrew Zisserman

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

I was taught that we have to remember WW2 and celebrate Victory Day every year to avoid such things from happening again. All these hypocritic parades and monuments on every second square in a town – "Remember" "Never joke around." Today the same people start the war.

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Recently I had to take IELTS (high-stakes 🇬🇧 exam). It was my 2nd time and now computer-based (on-premise and w/ f2f speaking). Got 8/9. Confirming that the latest Cambridge IELTS books are the best to practice the structure.

This conceited smile on the registration photo tho…

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Our paper "Taming Visually Guided Sound Generation" (🖼️👉🔉) was accepted as an oral presentation for the #BMVC2021 🎉.

Code, models, and a Colab demo: https://t.co/Yw2bvu1SOa
Project page, samples, and the gist: https://t.co/D6nx5lDtTh
Paper: https://t.co/vlLTeGZ42y

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

@ak92501 Thanks for featuring our paper! Huge fan!

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Leaving your for-loop outside of a function in Python makes it ~50% slower 😱. The issue has to do w/ the variable scope. Locals are stored as a fixed-sized array (fast indexing), globals as dicts (slower). Besides, 🐍 makes opcode prediction: squeezing several bytecodes into one

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Sharing the development pipeline of the #YOLO Object Detector web app (👉 https://t.co/mTnlEncwrE)
I built 2y ago for fun👨‍💻

https://t.co/hQGzdu0gi4

Covers front-end (js, HTML), back-end (Flask, 🐍), how to rent a server, domain name, add it to a DNS, and secure the connection🔒

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

I'm keen on the opportunity to check out the NeurIPS paper reviews once I read one and formed an opinion of my own. These're useful as a fairly educated take on both pros and, most importantly, cons that are often only somewhat evident just from 1 pass. But mind the survival bias

[vladimir iashin @_iashin]

Once I couldn't ssh to my machine. I forgot the tensorboard under tmux for 2 days and it ate up all RAM. It was running over the unchanged folder. Since then I prepend the cmd: `timeout 10h tensorboard…` (auto kill after 10h). Decided to share it because it just happened again