Ferjad Naeem

Research Scientist @Google

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

It was a pleasure to host Selim on this project. Really cool results. Check it out!

[Selim Kuzucu @SelimKuzucu]

Very excited to share the outcome of my internship @Google where we propose a new elastic visual tokenization architecture:

PARCEL: Pool-Anchored Resampling with Conditioned Elastic Queries for Efficient Vision-Language Understanding

https://t.co/9d2XuqiKpB

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[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@YouJiacheng Currently the tax rate is lower than the best risk free interest rate you can get on CHF. It also depends on where you live so you can optimize your residency based on your net worth.

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@SebJohnsonUK @GoogleDeepMind @ilyasut @OpenAI @ssi Let’s not forget the goat @JeffDean
A lot of folks were Google brain before it became Deepmind

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@fahadshamshad_ Congratulations!

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@suchenzang Post toxic relationship glow up is real, happy to see the big man living the dream

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@NandoDF @WenhuChen Would be cool to have a Gemma equivalent of releases from MS. Open source needs to live on to educate the next generation of builders.

[Cody Blakeney @code_star]

Poor one out for the homies

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@chrisoffner3d It’s not the most crazy example. Some banks used to physically mail you when a new device logged into your account 😂. That information could totally wait the two weeks it took to receive the letter.

[Nando de Freitas @NandoDF]

Not Americans but international teams developed convnets, alexnet, attention, AlphaGo, neural LMs, AlphaCode, AlphaFold, transformers, RL, etc, etc.

This war mongering CEO does not represent the Americans who helped develop AI either. They have greater ideals.

It is sad that my colleagues and I developed the science and tech being used by these money and power hungry despicable people.

We need a moratorium on AI weapons. And international institutions that can enforce it.

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@_arohan_ I still have these classics on a emulator on my phone, love to play these over the modern paywalled crap when I am on a flight.

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@jramapuram Amazing work! Also welcome to Google 😄

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@xidulu SR process is mostly team led, if you reach out to teams you are interested in working with, you will have a better luck
Most teams already have a list of candidate they want
Unlike the intern program which is more central, SR is decentralised

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@Neiluss_ @chrisoffner3d TUM hired some great young faculty in the last few years particularly on deep learning
ETH went the more specialised per topic faculty
Research wise you can’t go wrong with either. My teaching experience is too old now to comment on it. At ETH I only did my PhD.

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@chrisoffner3d At the same time they lacked depth, I relied on open sources courses from Stanford to self study
Our deep learning course was half the depth of Stanford 231N

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@chrisoffner3d My professors at TUM used to actively shit on deep learning back in 2018 saying it is unlikely to lead to meaningful breakthroughs because it’s not interpretable, that aged well 😂
But to be fair we had some great deep learning courses coming from newer faculty at the same time

[Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel]

"distillation attacks"

so they payed for usage, and used the output?

basically what im doing

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@viraataryabumi Oh that is strange and unintended
Are the models available on huggingface? I will take a look next week

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

Excited to share what we have been up to in image text embedding models. SigLIP 2 is the most powerful encoder for most open vocabulary computer vision and MMLLM tasks. Checkpoints are open sourced and we look forward to what the community achieves with these.

[Xiaohua Zhai @XiaohuaZhai]

Introducing SigLIP2: now trained with additional captioning and self-supervised losses!

Stronger everywhere:
- multilingual
- cls. / ret.
- localization
- ocr
- captioning / vqa

Try it out, backward compatible!

Models: https://t.co/3hOdqcy9QD

Paper: https://t.co/Tp4D8Syld8

[Ferjad Naeem @ferjadnaeem]

@_arohan_ Pluribus

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

Joint Statement: Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year.

After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google's Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users. Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards.