wielandbrendel.bsky.social
Machine Learning Researcher and Social Entrepreneur | Group Leader at ELLIS Institute Tübingen & Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems robustml.is.mpg.de | Co-Founder maddox.ai | Co-Initiator bw-ki.de | @ellis.eu scholar
👤 Joined on 08 February 2025
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@wielandbrendel.bsky.socialToday, the NeurIPS Foundation is proud to announce a $500,000 donation to OpenReview, supporting the infrastructure that makes modern ML research possible. blog.neurips.cc/2025/12/15/s...
Show PostPolybot, founded by @wielandbrendel.bsky.social has secured validation grant from SPRIND to advance its AI-driven agricultural robot. @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/from...
Show PostWork co-led with @thwiedemer.bsky.social, in collaboration with Sayak Mallick, Matthias Bethge and @wielandbrendel.bsky.social. Website: brendel-group.github.io/llm-line/ Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12120 Code: github.com/brendel-grou... 8/8
Show PostNew preprint out! 🎉 How does LLM training loss translate to downstream performance? We show that pretraining data and tokenizer shape loss-to-loss scaling, while architecture and other factors play a surprisingly minor role! brendel-group.github.io/llm-line/ 🧵1/8
Show PostCuratedThoughts: Data Curation for RL Datasets 🚀 Since DeepSeek-R1 introduced reasoning-based RL, datasets like Open-R1 & OpenThoughts emerged for fine-tuning & GRPO. Our deep dive found major flaws — 25% of OpenThoughts needed elimination by data curation. Here's why 👇🧵
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