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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒

@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
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Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta. emerge-lab.github.io www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky

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Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 12h
A first (short & compute-constrained) research project after leaving Google DeepMind: an LSTM-style tied transformer with one shared core KV cache The main question is how to train for the cache histories that the model produces recursively at inference
Architecture of the default tied transformer: one untied prologue block, four distinct core blocks reused for three iterations with an LSTM-style carry, then two untied epilogue blocks. The core reads one common donor KV cache for preceding tokens, produced by its final block on its final iteration. Each block retains its own current-token KV. There are seven block weight sets and fifteen block applications. With separate prologue and epilogue caches, sharing reduces persistent cache sets from fifteen to four.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13h
Nothing is ever fully democratic but Tesla's "we're going to put lightly tested vehicles on the roadway that might kill you, deal with it" feels like an original sin here
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In a world where so much tech is becoming horrid and authoritarian, the solution has to look somewhat atproto-like: decentralized and transparent. And so, if you care, it’s sort of your responsibility not to make these spaces a crab bucket
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At times insisting on human artisanship feels like fighting for something important and at other times like trying to keep the tide from coming in
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The systems we are building, the agents, the robots, are very easily misused. You have to have faith in people, in governments, to treat them with that care
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is frightening to watch white nationalism grow and grow. That such a virulent thing now has multiple billionaire backers, among them the richest man in the world, is not a good sign of things to come
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I had a feeling recently that seems to be corroborated by chats with colleagues, so I decided to share it here. A lot of systems neuroscientists driven by algorithmic-level questions are going through what looks and feels like a research depression. 🧵 (1/n) 🧠📈 #NeuroAI
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A running list of uses I've found for LLMs that are not "write my emails for me" or "write some code". 1. When I first taught my class, I either had time for lecture notes or slides. LLMs took my lecture notes, converted them into draft slides, that I then cleaned up and put into my style.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Greeting all friends with "so how's your existential crisis going"
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Leftists resist conflating people’s appearance and goodness challenge 2026 (impossible)
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why use whova when there's something strictly better
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another new, exciting architecture from my colleagues at Percepta: www.percepta.ai/blog/spotlig...
percepta.ai
Spotlight Memory | Percepta
A linear-time architecture with growing memory and constant memory access per token.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Academia undervalues applied work (it's not "clever"!) while many applied projects do not have an obvious commercial value proposition. Huge gap here where a lot of useful things live.
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. blog.trilliumlabs.org/p/introducin...
blog.trilliumlabs.org
Introducing Trillium Labs
Fostering the open science of frontier AI.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh, what a disappointment, the guy who frequently announces "I am a propagandist with no ethics. I am doing propaganda" has turned out to be a propagandist. Who could have foreseen this.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s funny people try to keep up with the frontier by using social media aggregators. By doing so, you‘re immediately behind since you’re just catching up to consensus
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well this looks interesting
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One weird trick to deal with the deluge of papers: fall back on your trusted network
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We put our superhuman stratego paper on arxiv almost a year ago. And then, because it was under review at Nature, we just didn't talk about it for a year. And, mostly, no one noticed it existed (as we hoped)! So, a direct lesson in the importance of publicizing your work. arxiv.org/abs/2511.07312
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Superhuman AI for Stratego Using Self-Play Reinforcement Learning and Test-Time Search
Few classical games have been regarded as such significant benchmarks of artificial intelligence as to have justified training costs in the millions of dollars. Among these, Stratego -- a board wargam...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, this is now the highlight of my research career
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With a lot of AI things you just need to extrapolate the tiniest bit to see that things will obviously be very different
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a taxi and the driver is watching a tiktok stream on his second phone. Genuinely, we are losing to our devices
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is a type of nerd snipe where you see a smart person ignoring the evidence of their eyes and you feel deeply compelled to fix it
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information - Nature
Ataraxos, an AI for the board wargame Stratego, establishes a design pattern for reinforcement learning and search that is effective under large amounts of hidden information, a longstanding desiderat...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Step 1: Find a cool paper by a researcher you like! Step 2: Discover it's slop. Step 3: Reset your memory so you can keep functioning
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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 30/09/2026
If you’ve seen me trying not to reveal what I’ve been working on the last few months, well, here it is 🎉 Our first big offering - aside from Atmosphere account hosting - is personal websites for researchers! Drop your must-haves, preferences, ideas, or questions about personal/prof sites below 🧪🧬💻
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Putting together a squad for the heist of a century. There's the hacker (Claude), the financier (Claude), the demolition expert (Claude), the inside man (Claude), the driver (Claude)
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Preparing a lecture on the practice of research and was reminded of this lovely essay on the importance of being comfortable with feeling stupid: fermatslibrary.com/s/the-import...
fermatslibrary.com
Fermat's Library | The importance of stupidity in scientific research annotated/explained version.
Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Woke up one day to discover that my field had moved to discussing research mostly on 4chan, explaining that yes, there were a lot of horrible things on the other boards but they mostly didn't see it
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A number that is really helpful to keep in mind is that Google’s yearly revenue is 400B. This helps put a lot of things in context.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
happy to listen to any take on data center water use that starts with "yes, growing alfalfa in the desert is an orders of magnitude bigger problem but..."
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had a brief moment of "hey, maybe we should ignore these people and stop getting on their case." And then someone at a dinner asked me if I had read them as they "make really interesting points." Got to inoculate early.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
POV: you've just said in my earshot that a method isn't working
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to all my anthropic friends who now have to pay for coffee for the rest of their lives
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maria on a generational run of good features for the academic conference experience
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Instant re-share. The future is uncertain, we still have to do the work, and the work is fun.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bluesky is the website of people who really like Piranesi and also struggle with moral gray areas
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're attending COLM, @mariaa.bsky.social has built you an atproto app... - Build your paper schedule - See the ongoing discussion around papers and active discussions - Create and find events - COLM-specific feed Join us! lea.ac/conferences/...
Ranked list of most-discussed papers at COLM
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Shubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not the easiest read, and perhaps too stylized, but a really cool paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.01595
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Mechanism Design for Alignment and Control
We develop a framework for mechanism design with AI agents whose alignment (preferences) and capabilities (feasible actions and information) are unknown. We want such agents to act on our behalf so me...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
LLM frontier labs are increasingly competing with their own customers and may soon discover why you’re not supposed to do that!
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is the world that I want and then there's the reality that in the short term, whether an LLM can find your paper or not is going to be really important to whether it gets cited / read
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Agents calling agents is fine. Humans calling humans is fine. I do not ever want to be called by an AI agent
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the #colm2026 papers most discussed on bsky/atproto. i hadn't seen some of these papers!
A screenshot from Lea showing the papers for COLM 2026 ranked by their number of discussions. The top papers are:

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction

Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I forgot to post about this before, but lea.ac now has a "Favorite Feeds" tab where you can select from all your pinned feeds (including those you made yourself) and highlight them on your profile. Making some more updates today so lmk if you have requests!
A screenshot of Lea showing my profile page with the "Feeds" tab selected. It shows one feed under "Favorite Feeds" and then a list of all my pinned feeds that I can select from.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a vision of how the social network embedded in bsky can make conference attendance richer. Props to @mariaa.bsky.social for the new feature
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am very often now in rooms with a lot of senior robotics or ML folks and it’s always just men. Men men men. A sea of men. It sucks! We should be very ashamed.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"These people are really annoying and/or weird" is not actually an argument against their point
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Heard there's a professor out there who wrote 200 papers themselves. Amateur hour. I spun up 4000 Claude's and together we wrote 4000 papers just today.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Resisting the horrible urge to have a GLM without safety tuning hack the laptops of everyone who says “no reason to be concerned about AI”
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