Leena Mathur

Curious about socially-intelligent AI? Check out our paper on underlying technical challenges, open questions, and opportunities to advance social intelligence in AI agents: Work w/ @lpmorency, @pliang279 📰Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.11023 💻Repo: github.com/l-mathur/socia… 🧵1/9

There is 1 more week to submit non-archival extended abstracts to present at the Artificial Social Intelligence workshop @ICCVConference! We welcome work recently published in other venues (including the main ICCV conference) as well as works in progress!

August 1 is the deadline for non-archival papers for the #ICCV2025 artificial social intelligence workshop! Papers in this track will be presented as posters at ICCV. We welcome any submissions of ongoing work, recently published work, or #ICCV papers in areas related to…

Life update: I’m excited to share that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems(@mpi_sws_) this Fall!🎉 I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html

I'm sadly not at #IC2S2 😭, but I will be at #ACL2025 in Vienna ☕️ next week!! Please spread the word that I'm recruiting prospective PhD students: lucy3.notion.site/for-prospectiv…

Official results are in - Gemini achieved gold-medal level in the International Mathematical Olympiad! 🏆 An advanced version was able to solve 5 out of 6 problems. Incredible progress - huge congrats to @lmthang and the team! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

I wrote a fun little article about all the ways to dodge the need for real-world robot data. I think it has a cute title. sergeylevine.substack.com/p/sporks-of-agi

Colab Pro is now available for free for verified US students and faculty for one year.

Chain of thought can hurt LLM performance 🤖 Verbal (over)thinking can hurt human performance 😵‍💫 Are when/why they happen similar? Come find out at our poster at West-320 ⏰11am tomorrow! #ICML2025

🏆Thrilled that #CollabLLM won the #ICML2025 Outstanding Paper Award! We propose a new approach to optimize human-AI collaboration, which is critical for agents. Congratulations to my fantastic co-authors; great job @ShirleyYXWu and Michel Galley driving the project!👏

2/ Silicon Valley made its name in hardware. HP, Intel, Lockheed, and other pioneers didn’t split their R&D and factory floors. Engineers and tradesmen worked side by side. In 1965, Lockheed alone employed 28,000 people in Sunnyvale. 28,000 people!

Some updates 🚨 I finished my Ph.D at @uwcse in June 2025! After a year at AI2 as a Research Scientist, I am joining CMU @LTIatCMU & @mldcmu (courtesy) as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. The journey, acknowledgments & recruiting in 🧵

I'm beyond lucky to have been able to sit down with Jensen and ask him questions, all thanks to @Neo 💙 Students, midnight tonight is the deadline to apply for the Neo Scholars program. It's the best decision you'll make.

Gemini 2.5's multimodal embodied reasoning capabilities are making a huge difference for many robotics researchers and industry developers. The Gemini Robotics team has curated a blog post of use cases, recommended prompts, real-world examples, and partner case studies 🧵

This research will advance social intelligence in models by improving their understanding of multimodal, embodied human communicative dynamics. Great to see this work 🚀

Long-context VLMs reason over and extract info as well as long-context LMs, right? WRONG! Our benchmark generator LoCoVQA shows striking exponential decays in long-context (and short) VLM performance on simple VQA tasks under growing distractor counts. 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2406.16851

I like em dashes, and I hate that some people now take them as evidence of text being AI generated.

📣 the deadline for archival papers in the #ICCV2025 artificial social intelligence workshop is tomorrow! archival papers will be published in #ICCV workshop proceedings and presented we welcome any papers on social signal processing, social scene understanding, social…

Yesterday, we live demo-ed a “generalist” VLA for (I think) the first time ever to a broad audience @RoboticsSciSys. Bring any object. Ask anything. New environment, new instructions, no fine-tuning. Just impeccable vibes! ✨

Excited to see more investigation into agentic misalignment! We have some pioneering work on this topic as well: 🔬 HAICOSYSTEM - Framework for testing AI agent safety in complex human-AI interactions arxiv.org/abs/2409.16427 🎯 AI-LieDar - Studies the utility and truthfulness…

"Every so often a new AI development comes along and great excitement ensues as people stumble over themselves convinced that the key to intelligence has been unlocked." Me writing about AI overhype 37+ years ago. Old dogs, old tricks. Yes, I did look like that.…