Yani Ioannou

@yanii

Schulich Research Chair & Associate Professor, Calgary ML Lab (@UCalgaryML), PhD U. Cambridge. Sparse Neural Networks/Efficient Deep Learning. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇨🇾

Calgary, Alberta, Canada yani.ai Joined March 2008

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Yani Ioannou @yanii Mar 30

I’m excited to be co-organizing this #icml2026 workshop on a topic I’m passionate about, and for the amazing speakers we have lined up! 🧑‍🏫

Please submit your work to the workshop, and attend @icmlconf in Seoul, South Korea in July 🇰🇷

#weightsymmetry2026 #ml #ai #workshop

Weight Space Symmetries @ ICML 2026 @weightsymmetry Mar 30

📢Excited to announce the Workshop on Weight-Space Symmetries @icmlconf! We welcome 4-page submissions analysing symmetries, their effects on training and model structure, and practical methods to utilize them.

Submission Deadline: April 24 (23:59 AoE)
#ICML2026

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Yani Ioannou @yanii Oct 10

@AirCanada my recent upgrade to signature class certainly made an impression! Your poor crew member had to explain to me that the bowl is empty on purpose as "filler", apologizing profusely for the tomato & cucumber sandwich/muffin clearly inspired by a kindergarten lunch box. 😂

Yani Ioannou @yanii Jul 9

Happening today in room 403 at #ICML2026, poster session in Hall A. Please stop by for the amazing set of invited speakers and orals we have lined up today on the subject of weight space symmetries!

Weight Space Symmetries @ ICML 2026 @weightsymmetry Jul 7

We are at ICML 2026! 🇰🇷

📅 Date: Friday, July 10, 2026
📍 Room 403, COEX, Seoul
🗓️ Workshop Schedule: icml.cc/virtual/2026/w…
🌐 More Details: weightsymmetry.com

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Yani Ioannou @yanii Apr 24

Happening now in Pavilion 3, poster 701! #ICLR2026

Mike Lasby @mikelasby Apr 22

Olá, ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro! 🇧🇷

Excited to present our paper, “REAP the Experts: Why Pruning Prevails for One-Shot MoE compression” this Friday from 10:30-13:00 at Pavilion 3 (P3-#701).

REAP is a one-shot MoE pruning algorithm that scales to 1T params. Details 🧵👇

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Yani Ioannou @yanii Apr 23

Really interesting work presented at #ICLR2026 by @armen_jeddi, @mciccone_AI and @Babak_Taati !

LoopFormer: Elastic-Depth Looped Transformers for Latent Reasoning via Shortcut Modulation loopformer.github.io