🇨🇦 Assistant Professor of Comp Sci. and Data Sci. at NYU. Machine Learning, Human-like AI. @agentic_ai_lab Follow me on @mengyer.bsky.social

New York, NY
Joined July 2009
Trying to purchase @Delta in-flight wifi with @stripe link but need SMS/email 2-step verification to sign in is ridiculous. Did they never test this in a real flight?
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Our AI ecosystem assumes *static* models. When models start *continually* updating, much of AI evaluation and alignment goes out the window. I gave a keynote on this at CoLLAS 2025: 🧵 1/
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NeurIPS 2025 is excited to announce this year’s Affinity Events — workshops and socials that connect communities, spark discussion, and highlight new ideas across AI and ML. Events will take place throughout the week in San Diego, with a joint gathering in Mexico City. For more details check out our latest blog post! 👉 blog.neurips.cc/2025/10/08/a…
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If I have a brilliant research idea, I should a) Try it out with the help of AI in a few days OR b) Spend a month to write a grant, possibly get rejected in 6 months or get to be the luckiest top 10% to get funded in a year just to recruit one student to start from ground zero.
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In 1850, California began taxing foreign miners $20/month (~$500 today)—while exempting "free white" foreign miners. As a result, many Mexican and Chinese miners left. Repealed in 1851, politicians reimposed it in 1852 at $3/month.
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Rushed back to the US in 24 hours and found out another 🌮
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To lower the submission volume and reviewer burden, charge - $100k fee to submit a paper. - $1M gold status for unlimited number of paper submissions for a year. - $5M platinum status for unlimited paper acceptances for a year.
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Be part of #NeurIPS2025 in Mexico City! Submit your proposals for Tutorials, Workshops, Socials and Startup Pitch! 📅 Deadlines Tutorials: Sept 26 👉 neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/… Workshops: Sept 30 👉 neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/… Socials: Oct 1 👉 neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/… Startup Pitch: Oct 15 👉 neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/…
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Mengye Ren retweeted
NeurIPS 2025 financial assistance and volunteer applications are now open for both San Diego and Mexico City! The deadline for both applications is 1 Oct AoE. See neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/… for more details.
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Pitch your AI startup at NeurIPS 2025 in Mexico City! The application deadline is just a month away on October 15th. Learn more and apply now: neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/…
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Mengye Ren retweeted
Excited to present my work at CoLLAs 2025 @CoLLAs_Conf! In our paper arxiv.org/abs/2501.12254, we tackle the challenge of self-supervised learning from scratch with continuous, unlabeled egocentric video streams, where we propose to use temporal segmentation and a two-tier memory.
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While cleaning out my office this morning, I found my first complete drawing of Bayesian Program Learning for Omniglot. The one piece of paper I'll keep! (1/2) science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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The decline of globalism
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Mengye Ren retweeted
We're excited to announce a second physical location for NeurIPS 2025, in Mexico City. By expanding our physical locations, we hope to address concerns around skyrocketing attendance and difficulties in obtaining travel visas that some attendees have experienced in the past few years when only one location was available. Read more in our blog post: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n…
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NeurIPS is pleased to officially endorse EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting taking place in Copenhagen this year, which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present their accepted NeurIPS work in Europe, concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n… eurips.cc/
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NeurIPS is seeking additional ethics reviewers this year. If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at the form in the link: neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/… Please share this call with your colleagues!
When your friend is paid $100M (to himself) but you are still begging for $0.1M grant (for the lab). Academic research freedom is expensive af.
On the left is Ronaldo, Real Madrid spent 80M $ to sign him from Man United On the right is Jiahui Yu, Meta paid 100M $ to sign him from OpenAI
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CDS Asst. Prof. Mengye Ren (@mengyer), Courant PhD students @alexandernwang and Christopher Hoang, and @ylecun introduce PooDLe: a self-supervised learning method enhancing AI vision in real-world videos by improving small object detection. nyudatascience.medium.com/le…
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Is it me or the commercial image generators (e.g. DALLE, Gemini) are less creative now compared to 6 months ago? They are more afraid to use creative shapes and details. Seems like they have been overtrained on a logo/simple shape dataset.
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Today is a sad day.
Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school. nyti.ms/3SLG7gW
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