@ermgrant

Assistant Professor @UAlberta & Fellow @AmiiThinks studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, and other tools. | https://xitter.cf/t.co/aC3k1IGqaC

 Edmonton, AB
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Joined July 2015
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at #ICLR2026 this week spotting 🌿green brutalism😌 as @iclr_conf Participation Chair w/ @pcastr, supporting ECRs to attend #ICLR2026! (Say hi!) also: Recruiting for my lab @UAlberta @AmiiThinks; hosting Re-Align ... 👇 PSA: Use Scholar Inbox :) scholar-inbox.com/@search/re…
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Diana Cai
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I’m joining @Cornell as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science this fall! My group will work on probabilistic machine learning for scientific discovery. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2027 -- and stay tuned for postdoc opportunities!
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New paper w/ @SaxeLab & Nishil Patel! 🧵 Does RL post-training teach models anything new, or just amplify skills already in the base model? We built a fully auditable testbed to settle it — and caught RL composing new strategies in the act.
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Excited to see our perspective out today! We argue that schemas may not be fundamentally distinct from semantic and episodic memories, but instead lie along a spectrum of abstraction, from detailed episodic experiences to highly abstract knowledge. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.202…
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I'm excited to be giving an invited talk at the #iclr2026 Re-Align workshop, talking about how we can improve precise instruction following generalization: 9:15 AM Rio time, Monday, April 27 representational-alignment.g…
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Sharut Gupta
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I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow at the Re-Align workshop at 11:15 AM (Room 207) on our recent work showing that independently trained multimodal contrastive models are equivalent up to an orthogonal transform! canonical-multimodal.github.… Drop by to say hi!
Sharut Gupta
@sharut_guptaApr 20
Excited to be in Rio for ICLR 2026! If you’re interested in multimodal representations, memory mechanisms, context compression, or just want to chat, let’s definitely meet! I’ll be presenting the following works and also giving an oral talk at the Re-Align workshop:
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David Bau@davidbauApr 27
Good morning #ICLR2026 sleepyheads! At 9:00am today rm 207 I will talk at the Re-Align workshop and challenge ol' Wittgenstein I promise some fun, pointing neural microscopes at Brazilian and Spanish felines. And trying a new tool for doing AI brain transplants in a minute.
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Badr AlKhamissi@bkhmsiApr 27
Good morning #ICLR2026 ☀️ The Re-Align workshop kicks off in 30 minutes! A full day on what we can actually do with representational alignment, from brains to language models to agents. Schedule in the thread 👇
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Modern deep learning is very complex. We are hopeful that many lines of research will improve our scientific understanding of DL through the lens of learning mechanics. Hope to find more solveable models & limits, empirical laws, scaling arguments, universal phenomena, etc
Jamie Simon@learning_mechApr 24
1/ Deep learning is going to have a scientific theory. We can see the pieces starting to come together, and it's looking a lot like physics! We're releasing a paper pulling together these emerging threads and giving them a name: learning mechanics. 🔨 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.21691 🔧
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Andrew Saxe@SaxeLabApr 23
Come chat about this @iclr_conf, at 3:15 PM on Friday in Pavilion 4 Poster #4216!
Andrew Saxe@SaxeLabFeb 3
Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures? Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607
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see you there!!
Pablo Samuel Castro@pcastrApr 23
Are you at #ICLR2026 and staying at (or near) the Marriott? Come run with me tomorrow (Friday) at 7am! Starting from the Marriott. #runconference maps.app.goo.gl/zBzQjRLDMWHi…
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on Monday, we're hosting the 3rd edition of the Re-Align Worskhop (w/ @dotaDong @bkhmsi in person + organizers from afar): representational-alignment.g… If you have an #ICLR2026 main conf poster on a related topic, you can sign up to present at Re-Align too! xitter.cf/bkhmsi/status/20470116…
Badr AlKhamissi@bkhmsiApr 22
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I’m also co-organizing the #ICLR2026 Re-Align workshop on April 27th. We've got an amazing lineup of speakers spanning CogSci, Neuroscience, and ML! 🧠🤝🤖 Link: representational-alignment.g…
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Andrew Saxe@SaxeLabApr 2
Very excited by this year's Analytical Connectionism Summer School! A dream lineup of speakers on the topic of language acquisition in minds and machines Bursaries available to cover costs Aug 17 – Aug 28, 2026 Gothenburg Details: analytical-connectionism.net…
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Join us at the Mathematical Foundations of AI Workshop! 📍Gothenburg 🗓️ June 8-10 We have great speakers and expect great discussions on DMs, transformers, and associative memories. Do you have a related work? The call for contributions is open!
Flavio Nicoletti@flaNick94Mar 9
📢 Apply to our workshop on Mathematical Foundations of AI on: Diffusion Models, Transformers and Associative Memories. 📍 Gothenburg, Sweden 🗓️June 8–10, 2026 💀 Register by May 15! We are also accepting contributions! 📎 sites.google.com/view/chair-… 👇 Find our speakers!
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Hiring 2 Postdocs to work on Theoretical Foundations of AI Safety @chalmersuniv If you have a background in Physics, Math, or ML and want to tackle AI alignment at a fundamental level alongside UCL, apply below! 🔗Apply: chalmers.se/en/about-chalmer… 🔬Lab: stefsmlab.github.io/

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❓ How do LLMs learn hierarchical structure from sentences alone? 🚨 We build PCFG-like synthetic datasets with two knobs---hierarchy + ambiguity---and derive a correlation-based learning mechanism that predicts the sample complexity of deep nets. Results 👇
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CogCompNeuro@CogCompNeuroJan 28
🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
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Thrilled to announce I'll start in 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS @UAlberta + @AmiiThinks Fellow!! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural and artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (talk at @CogInterp & organising @DataOnBrainMind)
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starting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @Penn 🥳 my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science! reach out if you're interested😊
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🧵🎉 Our mega-paper is finally published in TMLR! We're "Getting Aligned on Representational Alignment" - the degree to which internal representations of different (biological & artificial) information processing systems agree. 🧠🤖🔬🔍 #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #AI
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