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Hugo Larochelle

@hugo_larochelle · joined 18 Jun 2015

Mila Scientific Director. Scientific Lead @adaption_ai, advisor @tiptreesystems & @PrizmalAi. Ex @Google DeepMind & Twitter Cortex. Father of 4.

124 962Followers
648Following
4 097Posts total
144.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views15 017this account4 224median for 100K–1M
Reach, %12.02%this account1.77%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.55%this account1.48%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post15 0174 2243.56×
Reach (views ÷ followers)12.02%1.77%6.79×
Engagement rate0.55%1.48%0.37×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

7.6K16 Feb
6.4K17 Feb
9.7K25 May
38.8K29 May
731
123 Jun
10.9K2 Jul
25.9K7 Aug
12.5K10 Aug
16.5K12 Aug
15K14 Aug

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.25%16 Feb
0.44%17 Feb
0.15%25 May
0.09%29 May
0.68%
0.00%3 Jun
0.72%2 Jul
0.11%7 Aug
0.60%10 Aug
0.07%12 Aug
0.55%14 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.48%.

What the audience does

Likes60.2%291 in total
Reposts10.8%52 in total
Replies5.2%25 in total
Quotes1.7%8 in total
Bookmarks22.2%107 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Ulrich and I are recruiting a postdoc at @Mila_Quebec, to study and work on AI systems for scientific reviewing and mathematical reasoning in AI. See application details below! 15K views · 58 likes · 17 reposts · 8 replies 14 Aug 2026 🎓 I’m recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Trustworthy AI Assistants for Scientific Research, jointly supervised with @hugo_larochelle , in Montréal 🇨🇦 📅 Deadline: Sept. 15 🔗 Details & application intructions: https://t.co/T7TVCtVGPc 16.5K views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 12 Aug 2026 What an amazing and important exercise! I hope there's a follow up write up / paper describing and analyzing the results, so we can learn specific lessons from it (both about conference papers and about how good AI agents are at reproducing AI research). 12.5K views · 67 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 10 Aug 2026 How AI agents reproduced ICML 2026 papers https://t.co/wCI2wy25K0 25.9K views · 18 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 07 Aug 2026 Enthusiastic to advise and contribute to Adaption's mission to develop technology that helps people adapt and adopt AI for their individual ambitions. Adaption and @sarahookr's leadership in this direction is remarkable, and I'm proud a Mila alumni is pushing this boundary! 10.9K views · 66 likes · 5 reposts · 7 replies 02 Jul 2026 @hugo_larochelle nnah this is actually really cool, love seeing AI folks use their platform for stuff like this. hope the fundraiser went well 12 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Jun 2026 @hugo_larochelle Thank you for being so generous! https://t.co/i54oSej6kM 731 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 May 2026 Looking forward to our TechAide AI Conference today, during which we're raising funds to fight poverty and social exclusion in Montreal. If you'd like to contribute, you can make a donation here: https://t.co/cMOCWblnhI Any amount is greatly appreciate!! 38.8K views · 23 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 29 May 2026 Last call to register for the Mila @TechaideMTL AI Conference! What to expect from this event: talks by leading AI experts, networking opportunities and support a great cause. 📍Where? Mila's Agora , 6650 Saint-Urbain Street, Montreal 📅 When? May 29, 2026 🎟️ Buy your ticket https 9.7K views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 25 May 2026 Ever since @METR_Evals' fascinating work on LLM agent time horizons, I've wanted to see other attempts to draw conclusions from the same data. In a separate approach by Fengyuan and Jay, we too infer an exponential, but with shorter horizons for recent models (~2h vs METR's ~5h) 6.4K views · 21 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 17 Feb 2026 Joint work with @jaygala24 @nilaksh404 @DBahdanau @sivareddyg @hugo_larochelle From Mila × McGill 📄 Paper: https://t.co/ngLGdcEq8G 💻 Code: https://t.co/xqNZWUygST 🪩Website: https://t.co/9eNKZTqGR2 Would love feedback, especially on forecasting & human–AI collaboration. 7.6K views · 15 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 16 Feb 2026

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