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Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.

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Towards passive heart health monitoring via smartphone camera

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The next chapter in flood resilience: Open sourcing Google’s hydrology framework

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Empirical Research Assistance (ERA): From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery

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Opening new paths in aging research

Calico Life Sciences uses Co-Scientist to connect scattered findings and generate new leads in aging research.

Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research

Introducing Co-Scientist, a collaborative AI partner built with Gemini to help researchers accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling

Overview of adaptive parallel reasoning. What if a reasoning model could decide for itself when to decompose and parallelize independent subtasks, how many concurrent threads to spawn, and how to coordinate them based on the problem at hand? We provide a detailed analysis of recent progress in the field of parallel reasoning, especially Adaptive Parallel Reasoning. Disclosure: this post is part landscape survey, part perspective on adaptive parallel reasoning. One of the authors (Tony Lian) co-led ThreadWeaver (Lian et al., 2025), one of the methods discussed below. The authors aim to present each approach on its own terms. Motivation Recent progress in LLM reasoning capabilities has been largely driven by inference-time scaling, in addition to data and parameter scaling (OpenAI et al., 20

Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

GRASP is a new gradient-based planner for learned dynamics (a “world model”) that makes long-horizon planning practical by (1) lifting the trajectory into virtual states so optimization is parallel across time, (2) adding stochasticity directly to the state iterates for exploration, and (3) reshaping gradients so actions get clean signals while we avoid brittle “state-input” gradients through high-dimensional vision models. Large, learned world models are becoming increasingly capable. They can predict long sequences of future observations in high-dimensional visual spaces and generalize across tasks in ways that were difficult to imagine a few years ago. As these models scale, they start to look less like task-specific predictors and more like general-purpose simulators. But having a powe

Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs

Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and impacted humans, a step toward safer and more trustworthy AI. To gain a comprehensive understanding, we can analyze these systems through different lenses: feature attribution, which isolates the specific input features driving a prediction (Lundberg & Lee, 2017; Ribeiro et al., 2022); data attribution, which links model behaviors to influential training examples (Koh & Liang, 2017; Ilyas et al., 2022); and mechanistic interpretability, which dissects the functions of internal components (Conmy et al., 2023; Sharkey et al.

Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems

An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects. Many imaging systems produce measurements that humans never see or cannot interpret directly. Your smartphone processes raw sensor data through algorithms before producing the final photo. MRI scanners collect frequency-space measurements that require reconstruction before doctors can view them. Self-driving cars process camera and LiDAR data directly with neural networks. What matters in these systems is not how measurements look, but how much useful information they contain. AI can extract this information even when it is encoded in ways that humans cannot

RL without TD learning

In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to long-horizon tasks. We can do Reinforcement Learning (RL) based on divide and conquer, instead of temporal difference (TD) learning. Problem setting: off-policy RL Our problem setting is off-policy RL. Let’s briefly review what this means. There are two classes of algorithms in RL: on-policy RL and off-policy RL. On-policy RL means we can only use fresh data collected by the current policy. In other words, we have to throw away old data each time we update the policy. Algorithms like PPO and GRPO (and policy gradient meth

What exactly does word2vec learn?

What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec is a well-known precursor to modern language models, for many years, researchers lacked a quantitative and predictive theory describing its learning process. In our new paper, we finally provide such a theory. We prove that there are realistic, practical regimes in which the learning problem reduces to unweighted least-squares matrix factorization. We solve the gradient flow dynamics in closed form; the final learned representations are simply given by PCA. Learning dynamics of word2vec. When trained from small initialization, word2vec learns in discrete, sequential steps. Left: rank-increment