zhou Yu@ICML2025
@Zhou_Yu_AI
Founder of http://Arklex.ai, Associate Professor at Columbia. Making ai agent design and deployment easy and fast! Forbes 30 under 30.
Please consider submitting to our workshop, joining us in COLM at Montreal, we have an excellent list of speakers!
🚨COLM 2025 Workshop on AI Agents: Capabilities and Safety This workshop explores AI agents’ capabilities—including reasoning and planning, interaction and embodiment, and real-world applications—as well as critical safety challenges related to reliability, ethics, and…
At the AI Agent Conference in NYC, @simonchannet @FirsthandVC and Ben Lorica. It is a great turn out at mid town. Ping me to get connected if you are there too.

Come to meet us at NAACL to explore how to build an AI shopping assistant like Walmart Sparky! If you are not at NAACL find some time with us online share.hsforms.com/1mFEWFL8PQ8W18…

Come to meet us in @ICML2025 Exhibit hall A now to learn about scaling and steering diffusion models.

Hi there, drop by to me and Zack and Ragav if you are in ICML to know more how our new work on steering and scaling diffusion models!
We will be presenting our work on steering and scaling diffusion models at #ICML2025! Bonus: - FK steering can beat grad guidance?! 🤯 - Boltz 🧬adapted FK steering to BioML!!! x.com/GabriCorso/sta… East Ex. Hall A-B #E-1308 (Tue 15 Jul 11 a.m. PDT — 1:30 p.m. PDT)
It was so great to have a full house of AI Agent enthusiasts!
Thank you, Professor @Zhou_Yu_AI and @bklsummithouse, for the AI Agents in Action: Industry × Academia Exchange! @rebeccatqian, our CTO, was on a panel with Vinay Rao (Advisor at @AnthropicAI), @ShunyuYao12 (Research Scientist at @OpenAI), Robert Parker (Founder of Perceptix),…
This is hilarious. Cloudius went bankrupt quickly by sending all these requested discounts. This is why @ArklexAI separates the builder goal and user goal in optimizing AI agents. Otherwise your agent is gonna be too accommodating to their end customer and not make any profit…
This was just part 1 of Project Vend. We’re continuing the experiment, and we’ll soon have more results—hopefully from scenarios that are somewhat less bizarre than an AI selling heavy metal cubes out of a refrigerator. Read more: anthropic.com/research/proje…
A sunny NYC morning to think about the next big thing in data! @databricks

Check out our new paper, JumpStarter, on how to elicit and manage context interactively in long-session agents.
😵💫 Long-context human-AI planning with LLMs struggles when users have to manually manage all the context in messy chats (e.g. with ChatGPT). Meet 💡JumpStarter: task-structured context curation for better, collaborative planning with LLMs on complex tasks. 🧵 (1/n)
I wrote this blog post to share practical tips on how academics can collaborate with industry to explore alternative funding sources. Amid all the government cuts, I hope this can help other faculties. Feel free to reach out to me if you need more help. The universe conspires…
My great PhD students came back to the graduation ceremony. @maximillianc_ Max Chen joined @Google , @QingyangWu1 Qingyang Wu joined @togethercompute Together.ai and Kun Qian joined @Apple @yanda_chen_ Yanda Chen joined @AnthropicAI A fruitful year of 2024-2025…
PhD Candidate ➡️ PhDone! Excited to share that after 3.5 years of internship experience and earning 4 degrees, I have successfully defended my PhD thesis @ColumbiaCompSci and started working @GoogleAI! Huge thank you to @Zhou_Yu_AI for her unwavering support throughout my PhD!
Hi everyone, check out our paper today at 9am mountain time at NAACL. Learn about how to prevent leaking private data on your cell phone if you use large language models.
Happening at #NAACL2025 tomorrow, 9 am, Ballroom B! Come watch me wear butterfly-themed attire (PAPILLON is butterfly in French) :)
Check out our collaboration with @Walmart at NAACL 2025 Hall 3, 11 am MDT today, April 30th. @ArklexAI @CUSEAS
