aahlad puli

On the 25-26 job market! Faculty Fellow at NYU. AI/ML, OOD generalization, healthcare, causality.

[Todd Morrill @tee_oh_double_d]

Today I'm heading to San Diego for NeurIPS for the first time to present some research I've been working on. I got into machine learning about 10 years ago and always thought of NeurIPS as our field's Woodstock or Burning Man—the big one! I can't wait be in the mix! 1/N

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

Heading to neurips soon!

I'm on the job market and I work on making AI reliable, with a focus on healthcare.

Would love to meet people and hear about opportunities!

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

Simple, efficient, and surprisingly effective.

[Jatin Prakash @bicycleman15]

New paper alert 🚨

What if I told you there is an architecture that provides a _knob_ to control quality-efficiency trade-offs directly at test-time?

Introducing Compress & Attend Transformers (CATs) that provide you exactly this!

🧵(1/n) 👇

[Tal Linzen @tallinzen]

It's also a pretty good deal financially! Here's the link to apply: https://t.co/beTeo8Sat0

[Tal Linzen @tallinzen]

Many CDS faculty fellows have gone on to take tenure-track positions at top universities! This is one case where correlation definitely equals causation: https://t.co/E8el2hmdrK

[Tal Linzen @tallinzen]

Fellows work across all areas of research at CDS. I've personally enjoyed collaborating with past and current fellows in natural language and cognitive science (@najoungkim, @byungdoh, @ravfogel, and others!).

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

Join us!

[Tal Linzen @tallinzen]

Apply to be a Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Data Science (CDS)! This is by default a two year position, with a light teaching load (one course a year), and full research independence, and opportunities to collaborate with CDS faculty and students. Deadline: November 24. 🧵

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

So cool

[Diana Cai @dianarycai]

Fisher meets Feynman! 🤝

We use score matching and a trick from quantum field theory to make a product-of-experts family both expressive and efficient for variational inference.

To appear as a spotlight @ NeurIPS 2025.
#NeurIPS2025 (link below)

[Zachary Horvitz @zachary_horvitz]

✨Masked Diffusion Language Models✨ are great for reasoning, but not just for the reasons you think!

Fast parallel decoding? 🤔 Any-order decoding? 🤨

Plot twist: MDLMs offer A LOT MORE for inference and post-training! 🎢🧵

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

In Dyson's frogs/birds analogy, did he intend the subtext that the wells are all connected via groundwater?

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

AI peeps, what are your favorite AI for health papers from recent times?

[Jatin Prakash @bicycleman15]

What to do when you have zero rewards during RL?

We benchmarked RL baselines on a simple star-graph task where they underperform in zero reward scenarios.

Turns out, a dead simple data-centric intervention of just adding easy samples of the task helps unlock RL training! 👇

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

Great opportunity to work with NYU CDS students!

[NYU Center for Data Science @NYUDataScience]

Does your company have a data science project to complete?

📢 Partner with NYU MS Data Science students this Fall!

📅 Submit your Capstone proposal by Aug 3: https://t.co/NrUN8lFIP3

[NYU Center for Data Science @NYUDataScience]

Does your company have a data science project to complete?

📢 Partner with NYU MS Data Science students this Fall!

📅 Submit your Capstone proposal by Aug 3: https://t.co/NrUN8lFIP3

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

Easy, elegant, effective

[Zachary Horvitz @zachary_horvitz]

We will be presenting our work on steering and scaling diffusion models at #ICML2025!

Bonus:
- FK steering can beat grad guidance?! 🤯
- Boltz 🧬adapted FK steering to BioML!!! https://t.co/DhOqOfbi27

East Ex. Hall A-B #E-1308
(Tue 15 Jul 11 a.m. PDT — 1:30 p.m. PDT)

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

@marikgoldstein @attentionmech No function exists but some are useful

[Polina Kirichenko @polkirichenko]

We are excited to announce a workshop on Demographic Diversity in Computer Vision (DemoDiv) at #CVPR2025!

Submit your work studying various axes of demographic diversity and fairness in models and datasets and join us in Nashville in June!

Deadline: March 31st

[aahlad puli @aahladpuli]

Simple and effective

[Raghav Singhal @_rk_singhal]

Got a diffusion model?

What if there were a way to:
- Get SOTA text-to-image prompt fidelity, with no extra training!
- Steer continuous and discrete (e.g. text) diffusions
- Beat larger models using less compute
- Outperform fine-tuning
- And keep your stats friends happy !?

[Yoav Wald @wald_yoav]

What prompt generated the image on the right?
Come find out today at our tutorial on OOD generalization: Shortcuts, Spuriousness, and Stability

@Maggiemakar @aahladpuli
Panel: @ElanRosenfeld @AdtRaghunathan Danica Sutherland

[Hesam Asadollahzadeh @HesamAsdz]

Excited to announce that the Spurious Correlation and Shortcut Learning (SCSL) workshop has been accepted to #ICLR2025! 🎉 Join us to explore cutting-edge research on these critical topics.

Follow @SCSLWorkshop for updates and details!😉 https://t.co/UjZ6Zv1Wy1