Marco Ciccone

@mciccone_AI

Postdoctoral Fellow @VectorInst - Collaborative, Decentralized, Modular ML - Competition chair @NeurIPSConf 2021, 2022, 2023 - PhD @polimi ex @NVIDIA @NNAISENSE

Toronto, Canada marcociccone.github.io Joined April 2015

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Marco Ciccone @mciccone_AI Oct 28, 2024

🚨 Life update 🚨 I moved to Toronto 🇨🇦and joined @VectorInst as a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with @colinraffel and his lab on collaborative, decentralized, and modular machine learning to democratize ML model development. Exciting times ahead! 🪿

U of T: Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus

Marco Ciccone @mciccone_AI Oct 15

🚨 New paper alert on discovery harnesses!
It turns out that the quality of sequential discovery depends on the quality of the initial population.

Fixing the compute budget, we show that parallel prompting could serve as a powerful initialization, raising the discovery floor!

Mansi Sakarvadia @Mansi__S Oct 14

1/🧵New Research on LLM-Driven Discovery!
LLMs are increasingly used to discover new algorithms, theorems, and drugs by iteratively optimizing an objective inside a "harness."

Our finding: How you initialize a discovery harness matters a lot more than you might expect.

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Marco Ciccone @mciccone_AI Oct 1

It's pretty nice to see how proud GDM folks are about this release. I can't wait to try Gemini 4 Argon and dig more into its capabilities!

Marco Ciccone @mciccone_AI Sep 28

Go work with @chiaraplizzari-- she's great and fun to work with!

chiaraplizzari @chiaraplizzari Sep 28

🤖 🚀 I am opening one fully-funded 2-year postdoc position to explore egocentric 4D scene representation and understanding for robot learning, with fantastic collaborators @FrancisEngelman and @antoniloq

⏰ Deadline: November 23rd, 23:59
🔗 lnkd.in/e4ZW5WrB

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Marco Ciccone @mciccone_AI Sep 26

People don't realize the importance of having their PhD advisor in their corner. It is fundamental for growth, resilience, and, obviously, mental health. Great job!

Pan Xu @iampanxu Sep 25

I sent this message to my student, whose two papers received scores of 5/4/4 and 5/4/3 at #NeurIPS2026 but were rejected.

It’s also what I want to say to all junior students going through the same process: please be proud of what you accomplished with these papers, and don’t let these decisions shake your confidence in research.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to you all! 🌕 🥮

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