Adam Stein
@adamlsteinl
PhD student. PL + ML @ UPenn.
🧠 Foundation models are reshaping reasoning. Do we still need specialized neuro-symbolic (NeSy) training, or can clever prompting now suffice? Our new position paper argues the road to generalizable NeSy should be paved with foundation models. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.24874 (🧵1/9)
Grab a ☕️ and join us for a keynote by @RICEric22: Explanations for Experts via Guarantees and Domain Knowledge: From Attributions to Reasoning
Congratulations to Dr. Ziyang Li (@_ziyang_) on defending his dissertation today! Titled "Neurosymbolic Programming in Scallop: Design, Implementation, and Applications", this dissertation proposed Scallop, a unified programming system for combining the otherwise complementary…
New paper: real attackers don't jailbreak. Instead, they often use open-weight LLMs. For harder misuse tasks, they can use "decomposition attacks," where a misuse task is split into benign queries across new sessions. These answers help an unsafe model via in-context learning.