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Cong Lu

@cong-ml.bsky.social

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Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind, in open-ended learning, and AI for Scientific Discovery.

Cong Lu @cong-ml.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Are you interested in Open-Endedness and AI for Science? 🧪 I'm hiring a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind for a 6-month role. Join us to work on building agents capable of novel scientific discoveries! 🔬 Reach out if this sounds like you, and apply here 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Cong Lu @cong-ml.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚀Introducing “StochasTok: Improving Fine-Grained Subword Understanding in LLMs”!🚀 LLMs are incredible but still struggle disproportionately with subword tasks, e.g., for character counts, wordplay, multi-digit numbers, fixing typos… Enter StochasTok, led by Anya Sims! [1/]

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Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com · 14/02/2025

It was an honor to be on Quirks and Quarks (the CBC science show) with @cong-ml.bsky.social talking about The AI Scientist and the impact of AI on science. Science is being transformed by the AI revolution cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com · 12/02/2025

Introducing Automated Capability Discovery! ACD automatically identifies surprising new capabilities and failure modes in foundation models, via "self-exploration" (models exploring their own abilities). Led by @cong-ml.bsky.social & @shengranhu.bsky.social 🔬🤖🧠🔎 [1/9]

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Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com · 08/01/2025

It's an honor that The AI Scientist is #1 on this list! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Congrats @chris-lu.bsky.social @cong-ml.bsky.social @RobertTLange @hardmaru.bsky.social @jfoerst.bsky.social

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Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com · 16/12/2024

Lots of interest in ADAS! Thanks everyone, and congrats Shengran Hu and @cong-ml.bsky.social! 🚀🚀🚀

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Cong Lu @cong-ml.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Honored to receive this award for ADAS!!

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Aaron Dharna @aadharna.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Our in-progress work Quality-Diversity Self-Play (w/ @cong-ml.bsky.social and @jeffclune.com) will have a poster presentation at #NeurIPS2024 workshops (@IMOLNeurIPS2024 Sunday West meeting room 217 - 219 and OpenworldAgents Sunday East Meeting Room 1-3, Foyer). Please come visit us!

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Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com · 10/12/2024

Our work Automated Design of Agentic Systems (w/ Shengran Hu & @cong-ml.bsky.social) will have ✨two orals✨ @ #NeurIPS2024 workshops (LanGame Sat 10:20, OWA Sun 4:50). Please come visit us😃 We would also love to chat about open-endedness, LLM agents, etc. Come by if you want to meet!

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Cong Lu @cong-ml.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Interested in robust model-based offline RL algorithms? Come check out Anya Sims presenting our new paper investigating the edge of reach problem in offline MBRL! 📍East Exhibit Hall A-C #4603 #NeurIPS2024