🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau (@DBahdanau) / X

🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau

588 posts

🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau

@DBahdanau

Team member at @periodiclabs. Adjunct Prof @ McGill. Member of Mila, Quebec AI Institute. Stream of consciousness is my own.

Joined August 2017

🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Feb 2, 2022
I spent 1000s of hours on competitive programming (proof-link: codeforces.com/profile/rizar). This makes me qualified to comment on #AlphaCode by @DeepMind The result is nice, the benchmark will be useful, some ideas are novel. But human level is still light years away. 1/n
🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Apr 28, 2025
Adam deserves the award, but in Singapore everyone still uses SGD
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Apr 26, 2025
I am excited to open-source PipelineRL - a scalable async RL implementation with in-flight weight updates. Why wait until your bored GPUs finish all sequences? Just update the weights and continue inference! Code: github.com/ServiceNow/Pip… Blog: huggingface.co/blog/ServiceNo…
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Feb 21, 2020
I'm excited to share with you that yesterday I became a PhD! Coming next: doing some good research science at fabulous @element_ai 👨‍🔬
🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Mar 14, 2023
RIP AI Research Long Live AI Rat Race
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Sep 30, 2025
The reason to build AI was to accelerate science. At Periodic, accelerating practical science is the only thing we do. No detours. We don’t work on making funny videos. Or replacing human workers. Or chatbots that order your sushi. It feels great. Check out our open positions!
Liam Fedus
@LiamFedus
Sep 30, 2025
Today, @ekindogus and I are excited to introduce @periodiclabs. Our goal is to create an AI scientist. Science works by conjecturing how the world might be, running experiments, and learning from the results. Intelligence is necessary, but not sufficient. New knowledge is
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
May 9, 2025
I'm embarassed to admit that I have just grokked how amazing Python coroutines and asyncio are. I want to rewrite every single piece of code with threads I have every written! But the learning curve is steep. This great blog opened my eyes: tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-be…
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Dec 5, 2022
While the whole twitter is going nuts about ChatGPT, let me just say that the HELM paper by @StanfordCRFM and @StanfordHAI is an incredible scholarship masterpiece. Make sure all your students read it and see what good research actually looks like.
arxiv.org
Holistic Evaluation of Language Models
Language models (LMs) are becoming the foundation for almost all major language technologies, but their capabilities, limitations, and risks are not well understood. We present Holistic Evaluation...
🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Aug 9, 2024
if you think AI is going to kill us all, just try building a little multi-agent system and watch just how stupid LLMs get as their message history grows...
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Feb 26, 2022
You shut down your nuclear plants - you have to buy Russian gas. You don't want AI for killer drones - prepare to hide from Russian ones. Being overly virtuous and progressive in 21st century is suicide. Ukraine is a sober wake-up call. AI for Western armies? Hell yes!!
🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Apr 15, 2025
Replying to @iclr_conf
many many many thanks to @kchonyc and @Yoshua_Bengio for enabling the wildest ever start of my research career 2014 was a very special time to do deep learning, a commit that changes 50 lines of code could give you a ToT award 10 years later 😲
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Aug 8, 2025
At this point I view NeurIPS as a mix of IMO, IOI, school essay context and debate club. Just a ranking mechanism to separate allegedly smarter kids from allegedly less smart. The only problem is the smartest kids just skip the whole ordeal and join fun startups instead.
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Sep 5, 2025
I work at a mission-driven early-stage startup with great culture and 1000s of GPUs. Looking for someone to: - write CUDA kernels in their sleep - burst pipeline bubbles - drive MFU curves to the roofline with expert parallelism Want to extract more FLOPs from our GPUs? plz DM!
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🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau
@DBahdanau
Feb 2, 2022
Replying to @DBahdanau
To sum up: AlphaCode is a great contribution, and AI for coding is a very promising direction with lots of great applications ahead. But this is not AlphaGo in terms of beating humans and not AlphaFold in terms of revolutionizing an entire field of science. We've got work to do.