Mucong Ding

CS PhD @ UMD

[Furong Huang @furongh]

🎉 Here’s a fun HuggingFace demo you gotta try! Grab a watermarked image, scrub off the watermark using whatever tool you like (photoshop, or go wild with something fancy), and submit it. Then hit up the leaderboard to see how your scrub job stacks up! 🧼💥👀
https://t.co/ljEgVbQsBC

[Furong Huang @furongh]

🚨 Join the Challenge! 🚨
We're excited to announce the NeurIPS competition "Erasing the Invisible: A Stress-Test Challenge for Image Watermarks" running from September 16 to November 5. This is your chance to test your skills in a cutting-edge domain and win a share of our $6000 prize pool!

🔍 Competition Overview:
▶️ Tracks: Black-box Attacks & Beige-box Attacks
▶️ Goal: Remove invisible watermarks while preserving image quality.
▶️ Inspired by: WAVES Benchmark https://t.co/4TvIRqbwLz

🔗 Important Dates:
▶️ Sep 16 - Nov 5: Submission phase
▶️ Nov 5: Registration and submission close
▶️ Nov 20: Winning team announcement

🌐 Details and Registration:
▶️ Website: https://t.co/VXAmJWwxEQ
▶️ Hosted on Codabench:
⏩ Beige-Box Track: https://t.co/VwQGvGe0RP
⏩Black-Box Track: https://t.co/FOiN96I9kJ

💡 Why Participate?
▶️ Validate the robustness of image watermarks under varying conditions.
▶️ Compete in a domain inspired by real-world challenges.
▶️ Collaborate with a global community of researchers and practitioners.

💰 Prize Pool: $6000 (and counting as more sponsors join us!)
▶️ Interested in sponsoring? Contact us at [email protected] or [email protected].

🔨 A Personal Note: Hosting this competition has been a challenging yet rewarding experience. Working with a dedicated organizing team, developers, and legal experts across multiple parties, I've learned a lot. We can't wait to see what you bring to the table!

A big shout out to our organizing team @mucongding @TahseenRab74917 @bang_an_ @chenghao_deng @SOURADIPCHAKR18 Anirudh Satheesh @MerhdadS @ywen99 Kyle Sang @Aakriti0503 @xuandongzhao Mo Zhou @anniehartley_ @lileics @yuxiangw_cs @vishalm_patel @FeiziSoheil @tomgoldsteincs @furongh 💐 and our sponsor, center for machine learning at UMD @ml_umd @umiacs @tomgoldsteincs!

Don't miss out—register today and start preparing your submissions!

[UMD Science @UMDscience]

Today's #RedditAMA features @umdcs' Furong Huang! Her research focuses on trustworthy #MachineLearning, AI for sequential decision-making and #GenerativeAI.

She'll be live on Reddit with two of her Ph.D. students from 2–4 p.m. ET today—submit questions: https://t.co/VecxJlCcHz

[Tom Goldstein @tomgoldsteincs]

How many GPUs does it take to run ChatGPT? And how expensive is it for OpenAI? Let’s find out! 🧵🤑

[Jia-Bin Huang @jbhuang0604]

Sharing slides for my talk on finding faculty positions. 🤩

Hope this is useful for people on the academic job market this cycle!

https://t.co/aHoqBluP9P

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Try talking with ChatGPT, our new AI system which is optimized for dialogue. Your feedback will help us improve it. https://t.co/sHDm57g3Kr