Vincent Herrmann

@idivinci

PhD Student at IDSIA with @SchmidhuberAI. Also still a musician.

Lugano, Switzerland

vincentherrmann.github.io

Joined April 2013

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Vincent Herrmann
@idivinci
Jul 3
I’ll be at ICML next week, presenting ideas and theoretical results on interestingness! Find me at poster session 1 on Tuesday, July 7 at 10:30 am (Hall A, poster #4107), or just catch me anywhere at the conference. I’d love to hear everybody’s thoughts! icml.cc/virtual/2026/p…
Vincent Herrmann
@idivinci
May 15
New ICML paper with @SchmidhuberAI on how we can think of Interestingness, how it connects to open-ended learning and recursive self-improvement, and how algorithmic information theory provides concrete insights! …uctive-interestingness-2026.github.io/future-compres…
Vincent Herrmann
@idivinci
May 15
New ICML paper with @SchmidhuberAI on how we can think of Interestingness, how it connects to open-ended learning and recursive self-improvement, and how algorithmic information theory provides concrete insights! …uctive-interestingness-2026.github.io/future-compres…
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Vincent Herrmann
@idivinci
Apr 24
Very excited to be at ICLR 2026 in Rio, and present our work on Multiple Token Divergence—kudos to my co-authors @eric_alcaide, Michael Wand and @SchmidhuberAI!
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Vincent Herrmann
@idivinci
Jul 9, 2025
Excited to share our new ICML paper, with co-authors @robert_csordas and @SchmidhuberAI! How can we tell if an LLM is actually "thinking" versus just spitting out memorized or trivial text? Can we detect when a model is doing anything interesting? (Thread below👇)
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Vincent Herrmann
@idivinci
Nov 5, 2024
Excited to share new work done with @oneDylanAshley, Zachary Friggstad and @SchmidhuberAI on stories, music, movies and information theory, published in IEEE TPAMI📚🎶 🎬🤖 Below a quick summary and a web tool you can use to sort your playlists:) 1/n
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On the Distillation of Stories for Transferring Narrative Arcs in Collections of Independent Media
The act of telling stories is a fundamental part of what it means to be human. This work introduces the concept of narrative information, which we define as the overlap in information space between a...
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