Announcing AlphaEvolve, our new LLM coding agent that has - made new scientific discoveries - discovered algorithms that are now deployed at Google (in Gemini, Transformers, TPU hardware design & data centers) Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo... White paper: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

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/...

Congrats to UT computer scientist Swarat Chaudhuri & UT physicist Feliciano Giustino who were named as Guggenheim Fellows for 2025! #GuggFellows2025 @guggfellows.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social @swarat.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

I am honored to be part of the #guggfellows2025 class. My Guggenheim project is on AI systems that can discover new math in an open-ended way. Many thanks to my students, colleagues, and mentors, who inspire me every day and without whom this work wouldn't be possible. www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

The #LeanLang Standard Library, under active development at the Lean FRO, envisions providing a reliable and extensible basis for #softwaredevelopment, #softwareverification and #mathematics through verified components, a high-quality API, performance optimization, and best-in-class documentation.

RL is so back! (well, for some of us, it never really left) awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

Calling all scientists and students based in London! standupforscience2025.org and local groups are organizing rallies around the US to protest against the new administration’s massive and indiscriminate funding cuts to all manner of scientific research…👉🏼🧵 #sciencematters #standupforscience #london

Excited about Proofwala, @amitayush.bsky.social's new framework for ML-aided theorem-proving. * Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.04671 * Code: github.com/trishullab/p... Proofwala allows the collection of proof-step data from multiple proof assistants (Coq and Lean) and multilingual training. (1/3)

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

DARPA released a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks community feedback on the draft DARPA Guide to Formal Methods to Deliver Resilient Systems for Proposals (“the FMDRS Guide”). You can find the RFI here on Sam.gov. Details in the image...

Proving the Coding Interview: A Benchmark for Formally Verified Code Generation “We introduce the Formally Verified Automated Programming Progress Standards, or FVAPPS, a benchmark of 4715 samples […] including 1083 curated and quality controlled samples” arxiv.org/abs/2502.05714

Can LLMs be used to discover interpretable models of human and animal behavior?🤔 Turns out: yes! Thrilled to share our latest preprint where we used FunSearch to automatically discover symbolic cognitive models of behavior. 1/12

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Super excited: my new @darpa program on AI for pure mathematics! Exponentiating Mathematics (expMath) aims to accelerate the rate of progress in pure math through the development of an AI collaborator and new professional-level math benchmarks. sam.gov/opp/4def3c13...

Mathematical proof assistants like Coq and Lean were made possible by a correspondence that established the equivalence between proofs and computation. Read the explainer from our archive:

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is one more, and such a profound, way of distinguishing between science and technology: "Technology shouts for itself; science [does not]." (And these days, some technologies truly do themselves shout…)

2025 will be #mathsky interesting year!

@ayushkhaitan.bluesky.social, Amitayush Thakur, and I are organizing an #AI4Math panel at the Joint Mathematics Meeting this month. Please spread the word among your math friends! We will post a summary of the discussion after the event.

I really enjoy NASA Administrator (!!!) Michael Griffin on the "Real Reasons" versus the "Acceptable Reasons" to go to the moon: spaceref.com/status-repor...

An excellent post by Kevin Buzzard on informal reasoning methods like o3. The key point, one I wholeheartedly agree with, is that informal methods continue to struggle with proof even when they give the correct answers, and this is a critical liability. xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/c...

Delighted to share our new position paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.16075! The o1/o3 path to math reasoning is based on LLMs and large-scale test-time search. We argue for a different path that uses formal proof assistants for ✅ creating high-quality synthetic data ✅ rigorous test-time feedback. (1/2)

Good 🦋 samaritans: any of you have a friend at X who can get my X account back? If so, DM/email me! The thread below tells what happened. I couldn't ever reach a human at X; the bots kept saying X couldn't help. Every new account I've created since has been auto-suspended. bsky.app/profile/swar...

Trustworthy AI for Science will be a big deal in <5 years. No scientist wants to have to retract their Nature paper because their AI assistant hallucinated a bad but superficially compelling result. #NeurIPS2024 #DeepThoughts #AI4Science

Samuele created a fantastic benchmark for studying Neurosymbolic Reasoning Shortcuts! Reasoning shortcuts are a common failure mode of Neurosymbolic models. 🚀 Good diagnostic tools will really help the field forward! Glad to have contributed to this.

Yeming will present his new work on diverse generation with foundation models on 12/12 at #NeurIPS2024: openreview.net/pdf?id=sp8wH.... The main idea is to leverage synthetic data. We use influence functions to partition the data into subsets, then train multiple model adaptations on these subsets.

Arya and I'll be at #NeurIPS presenting LaSR (trishullab.github.io/lasr-web/) on Wednesday morning 11AM PST to 2PM PST (East Exhibit Hall A-C #4003). Drop by and say Hi!

If you are interested in program synthesis, you should consider attending our Neurips tutorial, where we will discuss program synthesis in the context of reinforcement learning. bsky.app/profile/prog...

The legendary Putnam math competition had its 85th edition yesterday. Coincidentally, George Tsoukalas will present our paper on PutnamBench, a next-generation #AI4Math benchmark, at #NeurIPS2024 this week: arxiv.org/abs/2407.11214. If you work on frontier AI for math/reasoning, talk to George!

Missing NeurIPS this year but wanted to highlight our new paper on LLM-guided genetic programming: trishullab.github.io/lasr-web/ Our method, LaSR, conditions mutation/crossover operators on (1) an LLM's general domain knowledge, and (2) LLM-generated abstractions of high-performing programs. (1/2)

Renaissance Philanthropy and XTX Markets have launched a $9.2 million "AI for Math fund" to support the development of new AI tools as long-term building blocks to advance mathematics. (I have agreed to serve on the advisory board for this fund.) renaissancephilanthropy.org/news-and-ins...

Happy to announce the PySR v1.0 release! github.com/MilesCranmer... PySR lets you do high-performance symbolic regression from Python. Now, you can learn multiple symbolic expressions simultaneously! Also: + Parametric expressions + TensorBoard support + Improved search + Julia-based inference

Since all my Twitter content is now gone, I will start reposting some of it here. Here are the slides for my talk on the coming wave of ML-accelerated formal methods, given at the Isaac Newton Institute last month. May interest some of you. drive.google.com/file/d/1ybQx...

I had a great chat with Tim Scarfe of Machine Learning Street Talk (x.com/mlstreettalk) on AI reasoning, program synthesis, and AI for math and science. Here's the video -- please reach out if you would like to discuss these topics more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFMk...

Update: I had no luck persuading X to give me back my account -- obviously, no human read the requests -- so I created a new account and reported myself for impersonating me. Outcome: both accounts are now suspended. 😍

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

SymbolicRegression.jl → 1.0 🎉 After several years of work, I'm thrilled to announce some major new features! Let me show you what's possible now:

I was thinking about what to write in my first real 🦋 post. Didn't expect it to be so easy. My X account has been hacked. The hacker changed the account email, and X won't return access to me because I don't know what it was changed to. 🤡 Oh well, good riddance and sorry I didn't quit sooner.

Hello world! Glad to be here... and out of THERE.