Atlas Wang
@atlaswang.bsky.social
https://www.vita-group.space/ 👨🏫 UT Austin ML Professor (on leave)
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/ 🏦 XTX Markets Research Director (NYC AI Lab)
Superpower is trying everything 🪅
Newest focus: training next-generation super intelligence - Preview above 👶
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/ 🏦 XTX Markets Research Director (NYC AI Lab)
Superpower is trying everything 🪅
Newest focus: training next-generation super intelligence - Preview above 👶
Reposted by Atlas Wang
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities. www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.
www.wired.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities. www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
Reposted by Atlas Wang
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
September 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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
Got a comment I secretly like:
“This professor is constructively rude”
“This professor is constructively rude”
September 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Got a comment I secretly like:
“This professor is constructively rude”
“This professor is constructively rude”
Paying for a dinner I wasn’t even at 🤣 — momentum’s strong, keep it up team!
www.vita-group.space/team
www.vita-group.space/team
August 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Paying for a dinner I wasn’t even at 🤣 — momentum’s strong, keep it up team!
www.vita-group.space/team
www.vita-group.space/team
I really wanna see / do research on using AI to prevent massive shooting …
August 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I really wanna see / do research on using AI to prevent massive shooting …
Perhaps I’m not alone in feeling GPT5 (even pro) is no better than o3-pro… coding and knowledge?
August 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Perhaps I’m not alone in feeling GPT5 (even pro) is no better than o3-pro… coding and knowledge?
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! 🚀
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
July 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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! 🚀
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! 🚀
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 :)
www.bestbritishcats.com To my Bay Area friends: BUY one!
Maybe try using my name to get a discount :)
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www.bestbritishcats.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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 :)
www.bestbritishcats.com To my Bay Area friends: BUY one!
Maybe try using my name to get a discount :)
@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)
🚀 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)
June 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
@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)
🚀 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)
Reposted by Atlas Wang
@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
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
June 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@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
half a page in and this is a phenomenal read. So much to wrap my head around
www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.21797
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 🤣
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 🤣
June 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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 🤣
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 🤣
Reposted by Atlas Wang
An #AI system that automatically interprets echocardiograms maintained high accuracy across geography and time from complete and limited studies.
https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI
https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI
June 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
An #AI system that automatically interprets echocardiograms maintained high accuracy across geography and time from complete and limited studies.
https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI
https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI
Reposted by Atlas Wang
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
✅ 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
An #AI system that automatically interprets echocardiograms maintained high accuracy across geography and time from complete and limited studies.
https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI
https://ja.ma/4jYWBgI
June 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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
✅ 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
A reflection sparked by Saturday night’s thought-provoking dinner conversation 🥘
www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...
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:...
www.linkedin.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A reflection sparked by Saturday night’s thought-provoking dinner conversation 🥘
www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...
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!! ❤️
One can clearly see how this group evolves its own tastes!
… and deeper in my heart: long live optimization!! ❤️
June 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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!! ❤️
One can clearly see how this group evolves its own tastes!
… and deeper in my heart: long live optimization!! ❤️
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
arxiv is filled by papers that treat symptoms (or not even!) without ever diagnosing the disease
May 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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
arxiv is filled by papers that treat symptoms (or not even!) without ever diagnosing the disease
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…
So boring arxiv feeds every day…
May 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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…
So boring arxiv feeds every day…
Reposted by Atlas Wang
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
May 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This is going to kneecap science in this country for years. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Atlas Wang
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/...
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
April 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...
Reposted by Atlas Wang
🚀 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!
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!
March 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🚀 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!
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!
Just had a meal that gifted me two rare treasures:
1️⃣ Meeting someone infinitely wiser than me.
2️⃣ They weren’t cold or mean—just gently showed me where I could grow.
"To learn truth at dawn, I’d die content by dusk."
✨ Humility tastes better with kindness. #Gratitude #LifeLessons
1️⃣ Meeting someone infinitely wiser than me.
2️⃣ They weren’t cold or mean—just gently showed me where I could grow.
"To learn truth at dawn, I’d die content by dusk."
✨ Humility tastes better with kindness. #Gratitude #LifeLessons
March 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Just had a meal that gifted me two rare treasures:
1️⃣ Meeting someone infinitely wiser than me.
2️⃣ They weren’t cold or mean—just gently showed me where I could grow.
"To learn truth at dawn, I’d die content by dusk."
✨ Humility tastes better with kindness. #Gratitude #LifeLessons
1️⃣ Meeting someone infinitely wiser than me.
2️⃣ They weren’t cold or mean—just gently showed me where I could grow.
"To learn truth at dawn, I’d die content by dusk."
✨ Humility tastes better with kindness. #Gratitude #LifeLessons
Reposted by Atlas Wang
Good news? SPIN-Bench pinpoints exactly where these models fall short—and illuminates exciting research directions to smarter, socially savvy AI
For some extra fun (and detailed, interactive trajectory visualizations!), visit project page：
👉 spinbench.github.io
full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.12349
For some extra fun (and detailed, interactive trajectory visualizations!), visit project page：
👉 spinbench.github.io
full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.12349
SPIN-Bench: How Well Do Large Language Models Reason Strategically and Socially?
How Well Do Large Language Models Reason Strategically and Socially?
spinbench.github.io
March 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Good news? SPIN-Bench pinpoints exactly where these models fall short—and illuminates exciting research directions to smarter, socially savvy AI
For some extra fun (and detailed, interactive trajectory visualizations!), visit project page：
👉 spinbench.github.io
full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.12349
For some extra fun (and detailed, interactive trajectory visualizations!), visit project page：
👉 spinbench.github.io
full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.12349