Max W. Shen

wandering and wondering.
Research Scientist at Prescient Frontiers Research, Genentech.
Forbes 30u30 Science.

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@kchonyc https://t.co/E7GPKb4m7a

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Are equivariant architectures worth it for guaranteeing 3D-rotational symmetry when modeling proteins?

We study this in *Training Dynamics of Learning 3D-Rotational Equivariance* (Oral at NeurIPS AI4Science '25, accepted at TMLR)
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Check out our poster and oral presentation at NeurIPS AI4Science, and I'd be happy to chat!

I am a researcher in Frontiers Research in Prescient Design, Genentech with @kchonyc and we may be hiring soon!

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@rishabh16_ https://t.co/E7GPKb4m7a

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@rishabh16_ Try googling for it :)

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https://t.co/7Z8nCQ9ORW

The deep retrieval + remix hypothesis

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https://t.co/2WURB0FhQJ

What is data?
The classical and postmodern views

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@SsbmGinger @stocmoney I was PR #2 in San Diego in 2013 btw so others can attest than I am also a real person

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@SsbmGinger @stocmoney I can attest fro is a real person lol. At MIT around 2016 I was better than fro ybot and unlucky. Fro got insanely better after slippi came out and last I heard he's in NYC

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In capitalism, narrow AI may be the greatest threat to AGI. https://t.co/POFVdHPMSB

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@tzenszen Thanks for the kind words!

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New blog post - https://t.co/gLSKJdDYcP. A unifying and simple concept - iteratively refining high dimensional output seems to work surprisingly well in practice

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@StewartSlocum1 Thanks!