UMN csci, math, econ triple honors major | Sensemaking4AI & Human-AI Scientific Discovery | VIS+NLP+AI4Sci Researcher
San Diego, CA
Joined September 2022
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Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
One of my larger problems with their attitude is that they don’t respect the Chinese. Not even a little bit. You don’t have to like them but you need to respect them.
China’s best researchers aren’t necessarily our little lapdogs for a green card.
Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
Breaking: Academic freedom no more.
The NeurIPS Foundation has announced it will no longer accept submissions from US-sanctioned institutions.
Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2!
We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.
Note: Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via @FireworksAI_HQ ' hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.
Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
If you want PhD, sleep.
If you want idea, sleep.
If you want offer, sleep.
If you want paper, sleep.
If you want reward, sleep.
If you want breakthrough, sleep.
If you want collaborator, sleep.
Please sleep well.
Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
HCI venues need to seriously consider making their review processes more public than they are now. Going forward, less transparency may only hinder our ability to perform similar meta-analyses to diagnose problems as peer review demands expand.
We want to update the community on our response to concerns about low-quality and LLM-generated papers and reviews, and steps we are taking & will be taking blog.iclr.cc/2025/11/19/iclr…
We will follow up with another blog later on desk rejections and reviewer-related decisions!
Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
I moved to the US in 2001. Really changed my life. Truly a land of opportunity. With some luck, anyone from anywhere cud grab opportunities, work hard & accomplish things they never dreamed of. May the American dream eternally thrive. Happy 4th.
Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
Ok a few quick things.
Most CS students who get into elite PhD programs in AI especially have already usually published multiple first author papers in "top" conferences. 1/
i left my phd before joining openai
working in industry demands more rigor – you don’t just need to convince reviewer 2 with a nice graph and an ego-cite, it better actually work if it’s underwriting billions in research investment
not saying it always pans out that way in practice. yolo culture is pervasive and “research-quality code” abounds. i certainly don’t have a clean conscience there
but some of the best breakthroughs come from people without academic preconceptions, with the discipline to build things that actually work
Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B.
Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.
Yilin Harry Lu retweeted
Mechanistic interpretability is fascinating - but can it be useful? In particular, can it beat strong baselines like steering and prompting on downstream tasks that people care about?
The answer is, resoundingly, yes.
Our new blog post with @a_karvonen, Sieve, dives into the first counterfactual application of sparse autoencoders to a real downstream task, where we demonstrate Pareto dominance over existing methods.
A 🧵… ~1/8~
tilderesearch.com/blog/sieve
