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Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) @cpalconf.bsky.social · 15d

Calling all parsimony and learning researchers 🚨🚨 The 3rd annual CPAL will be held in Tübingen Germany March 23–26, 2026! Check out this year's website for all the details cpal.cc

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · 20d

Got a comment I secretly like:

“This professor is constructively rude”

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Sep 2

www.linkedin.com/posts/atlas-...

Job Description | XTX Markets | Atlas Wang

🌐 It has been an incredible first year for the XTY AI Lab of XTX Markets in New York City, where we set out to build a world-class hub for AI research in quantitative finance: the results have exceede...

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Aug 31

Paying for a dinner I wasn’t even at 🤣 — momentum’s strong, keep it up team!

www.vita-group.space/team

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Aug 27

I really wanna see / do research on using AI to prevent massive shooting …

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Aug 8

Perhaps I’m not alone in feeling GPT5 (even pro) is no better than o3-pro… coding and knowledge?

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Cannot resist enjoying some proud advisor moment

Eight years ago, I walked into my faculty office for the first time, not knowing what the journey ahead would hold. | Atlas Wang | 10 comments

Eight years ago, I walked into my faculty office for the first time, not knowing what the journey ahead would hold. This past year, while I’ve been gradually “fading into the background,” the group ...

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jul 8

Two fresh tutorials on low-dimensional DL:

Sparsity ’23 🔗 vita-group.github.io/SparsityTuto...

Low-Rank ’25 🔗 vita-group.github.io/LowrankTutor...

Curious about how sparsity and low-rank ideas power modern deep learning? I hope these slide decks & notes are a useful starting point! 🚀

Sparse Neural Networks: From Practice to Theory | Atlas Wang

vita-group.github.io

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jul 3

Of all my students’ career achievements, this one makes me proudest: because really, who needs yet another AI professor or scientist alumni when you can boast a professional cat-breeder student?

www.bestbritishcats.com To my Bay Area friends: BUY one!

Maybe try using my name to get a discount :)

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jun 30

Practically, enforce the right symmetries + keep weight distributions low-entropy-> you may get symbolic generalization “for free.” Lines up with grokking & reasoning-finetuning we keep seeing.

If emergent reasoning, implicit alignment, or theory-catching-practice excites you, dive in & poke holes!

Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jun 30

Key ideas:
• #EmergentReasoning — provably, no external logic engine needed.
• #GeometricLens — lift weights to a probability measure & watch training as a Wasserstein gradient flow; messy SGD turns into clean geometry.
• #Compositionality — small rules snap into big ones. (3/n)

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jun 30

Why the hype? It gives a principled story for how discrete, symbolic #reasoning can emerge inside a vanilla neural net trained with plain gradients. Continuous weights ⇒ spontaneous symbolic rules. Mathy yet hopefully still readable (2/n).

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jun 30

@talkachman.bsky.social caught it faster before I did... but here we go!

🚀 New pre-print dropped lnkd.in/gmQ9hBdf
Its first draft won the #DARPA Disruptive Idea award at #NeuS2025. Now my student Peihao Wang has sharpened the theory even more. I’m so excited what it means for AI reasoning 🧩🤖 (1/n)

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · Jun 30

@atlaswang.bsky.social knocking out of the park again!
half a page in and this is a phenomenal read. So much to wrap my head around
www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.21797

Why Neural Network Can Discover Symbolic Structures with Gradient-based Training: An Algebraic and Geometric Foundation for Neurosymbolic Reasoning

We develop a theoretical framework that explains how discrete symbolic structures can emerge naturally from continuous neural network training dynamics. By lifting neural parameters to a measure space...

www.arxiv.org

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jun 30

aha thanks! So fast you are

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jun 26

Feels great relief to report: #Thrilledtoshare (yes, that LinkedIn tone I hate...) we have 0 papers accepted to @iccv.bsky.social !

Surprisingly liberating to step off the number game: I meant it.

I’m genuinely proud of the science my students are building, no matter how ICCV reviewers think 🤣

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JAMA @jama.com · Jun 23

An #AI system that automatically interprets echocardiograms maintained high accuracy across geography and time from complete and limited studies.

https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI

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Evangelos K. Oikonomou @ekoikonomou.bsky.social · Jun 25

Check out #PanEcho, now in @jama.com

✅ open weights
✅ multiview multitask reporting
✅ international validation
✅ works with POCUS

Amazing effort @cardslab.bsky.social
@giholste.bsky.social @rohankhera.bsky.social

+ @atlaswang.bsky.social, Márton Tokodi & Attila Kovács

#CardioSky #EchoSky

JAMA @jama.com · Jun 23

An #AI system that automatically interprets echocardiograms maintained high accuracy across geography and time from complete and limited studies.

https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jun 15

A reflection sparked by Saturday night’s thought-provoking dinner conversation 🥘

www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...

Beyond Bigger Models: AI Needs Bigger Problems

(Disclaimer: AI helped revise this article, too: -) “If AI is truly transformative, why are its dividends still so concentrated?” Over the past two years, I have watched two headlines run in parallel:...

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Jun 11

Making a new website of my research group, and did a visualization of all our papers from 2018 to present: clustered into 10 topics.

One can clearly see how this group evolves its own tastes!

… and deeper in my heart: long live optimization!! ❤️

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · May 25

Quoting one slides from @yann-lecun.bsky.social talk…

arxiv is filled by papers that treat symptoms (or not even!) without ever diagnosing the disease

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · May 25

Unwelcome idea: I’m extremely tired of seeing one more LLM paper and believe academics shall pivot away from this area.

So boring arxiv feeds every day…

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · May 2

This is going to kneecap science in this country for years. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Apr 19

One of my PhD students got their visa revoked. I know of other cases amongst my AI colleagues. This is not what investing in US leadership in AI looks like.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

US revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets?

Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo.

www.aljazeera.com

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Atlas Wang @atlaswang.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚀 Thrilled to announce SPIN-Bench!🚀

We all love seeing how smart LLMs can be-solving complex math, crafting beautiful text, and coding effortlessly. But how well do they handle real-world strategic complexity, cooperation, & social negotiation? Can they play well when things get tricky?

Not quite!

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