Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow @NYUDataScience studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, other tools | bsky.app/profile/eringrant.m…
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Apr 23
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 :)
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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.
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Apr 26
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
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Apr 27
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!
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Drop by to say hi!
Apr 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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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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Apr 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
Apr 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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Apr 23
Come chat about this @iclr_conf, at 3:15 PM on Friday in Pavilion 4 Poster #4216!
Feb 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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Apr 23
see you there!!
Apr 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
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Apr 23
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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Apr 23
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!
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Apr 22
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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Apr 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!
📢 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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Jan 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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6 Dec 2025
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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25 Nov 2025
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😊
ALT a red building on UPENN's campus photographed during the fall
ALT the Philadelphia skyline, with clear skies and autumn trees
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27 Oct 2025
🧵🎉 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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23 Oct 2025
Applying to do a postdoc or PhD in theoretical ML or neuroscience this year? Consider joining my group (starting next Fall) at UT Austin!
POD Postdoc: oden.utexas.edu/programs-and… CSEM PhD: oden.utexas.edu/academics/pr…
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15 Sep 2025
I am hiring a post doc at @UAlberta , affiliated with @AmiiThinks ! We study language processing in the brain using LLMs and neuroimaging. Looking for someone with experience with ideally both neuroimaging and LLMs, or a willingness to learn. Email me Qs
apps.ualberta.ca/careers/pos…
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