Congratulations to Dr. Gaurav Narang (co-advised w/ Partha) on defending his thesis "Advances in Machine Learning-enabled Resource Management in Manycore Systems: From Von Neumann to Heterogeneous Processing-in-Memory Architectures" Next position: Postdoc @ Arizona State Univ.

Alaleh's graduation ceremony 👇 It was great having lunch conversations with both Alaleh Ahmadian and Iman Mirzadeh! Always a happy feeling to hear from past students and to see them doing very well in both career and life!!

What would truly open-source AI look like? Not just open weights, open code/data, but *open development*, where the entire research and development process is public *and* anyone can contribute. We built Marin, an open lab, to fulfill this vision:

Non-Myopic Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Syrine Belakaria, Alaleh Ahmadian, Barbara E Engelhardt, Stefano Ermon, Jana Doppa. Action editor: Bryan Kian Hsiang Low. openreview.net/forum?id=2e1aZ… #optimization #optimality #objective

Announcing the 2025 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award winner ✨Aditya Grover Aditya Grover, Inception UCLA. Dr. Grover is honored for uniting deep generative models, representation learning & RL to advance scientific reasoning. Congratulations! ijcai.org/awards

A bitter sweet day -- our lab is retiring Cassie after this last stroll around campus.

YOUNG RESEARCHERS' SYMPOSIUM The Young Researchers' Symposium at CODS 2025 invites submissions from current students who have a track record of publishing. This is a unique opportunity for young scholars to receive feedback from mid-career and senior faculty. This is also

Looking for Postdoc/Research Assistant to work on deep generative models, with a focus on the domain of molecules. Application deadline 3 July 2025. More info: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51666/

Congratulations to Harsh Sharma, winner of Voiland College's 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award!

📢Call for Papers: Research Track@ #CODS2025 From algorithms to applications, submit original work in #DataScience, ML, AI, data systems & theory-archival & non-archival welcome! 📍 Dec 17–20, IISER Pune 🔗Details: ikdd.acm.org/cods-2025/call… #AI #ML #CFP #Research

First position paper I ever wrote. "Beyond Statistical Learning: Exact Learning Is Essential for General Intelligence" arxiv.org/abs/2506.23908 Background: I'd like LLMs to help me do math, but statistical learning seems inadequate to make this happen. What do you all think?

Please help with my inventory of RL-trained humanoid whole-body controllers (WBCs) docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… This will be the raw material for an upcoming blog post that distills the key differences and commonalities.

In this video, Rina Dechter, winner of the IJCAI-25 Award for Research Excellence, reflects on what—and who—inspired her journey into automated reasoning. Don't miss her invited talk on Friday, 22 August. #Montreal #AIcanada #IJCAI2025 🎥youtu.be/3hK22DZRdUI

Excellent demonstration of the beauty of test cricket! Indeed, a great escape enabled by beautiful batting by KL, Gill, Jadeja, and Sundar after being 0/2 in the first over! Hope India will play Kuldeep in the final test! Sundar has the quality to play as a pure batter..

Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves behave, surprising and exciting mathematicians. Kevin Hartnett reports: quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah-c…

What is analogous to the motor cortex for humanoid robots? Answer: whole-body controller (WBC) Like the motor cortex it is easy to overlook but essential. This post surveys recent trends in learned WBCs -- part light tutorial, part survey. open.substack.com/pub/gofai2robo…

It's becoming increasingly clear that gpt5 can solve MINOR open math problems, those that would require a day/few days of a good PhD student. Ofc it's not a 100% guarantee, eg below gpt5 solves 3/5 optimization conjectures. Imo full impact of this has yet to be internalized...

We have two postdocs positions open at the EnCORE Institute. All areas of Theoretical Computer Science and Foundations of AI are of interest. UCSD Engineering UC San Diego Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

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We at TMLR are proud to announce that selected papers will now be eligible for an opportunity to present at the joint NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR Journal-to-Conference (J2C) Track: medium.com/@TmlrOrg/tmlr-…