Shawn Jain
@shawnjain08
Co-Founder at Synthefy; Venture Partner at Lightscape; ex-OpenAI, MIT, MSR, Uber ATG
Synergy between evolutionary algorithms and language models: EAs can leverage LMs to generate data in novel domain, and thereby improve LM — bootstrapping it into competence in that domain (here evolving locomoting 2D virtual creatures). 3/4
To celebrate the release of Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning, we're doing a book giveaway! To participate: 0. Only US participants (shipping) 1. Follow my account. 2. Retweet this tweet. Five will be selected Sun, Oct 25th. #ReinforcementLearning #DeepLearning
LLMs are amazing at a lot of things - but time series forecasting isn’t one of them. In Synthefy's latest blog post, we explain why token-based architectures aren’t inherently designed for real-world time series tasks - like forecasting energy demand, retail trends, or medical…
Time-Series is the most under-appreciated and under-researched modality in gen-ai, even though it comprises the large majority of data in the world. That's why I am co-founding @synthefyinc with @ShubhankarAgar3 and @SPChinchali We won 1st at the DT/T-Mo AI Challenge.
The surge in #OpenEndedness research on arXiv marks a burgeoning interest in the field! The ascent is largely propelled by the trailblazing contributions of visionaries like @kenneth0stanley, @jeffclune, and @joelbot3000, whose work continues to pave new pathways.
Touches on open-endedness, evolutionary computation, genetic programming, and deep learning. Excited to see what others build on this! 4/4
What I've been working on at OpenAI!
ELM done with an amazing team: @kenneth0stanley @GordonJo76 @darkmatter08 @kandouss & Cathy Yeh. [video shows an evolutionary lineage from an initial barely-functional seed program to a final solution -- best in full-screen] 2/4
“Evolution through Large Models” – new paper from our team at OpenAI. Step towards evolutionary algos that continually invent and improve at inventing: Large models can suggest (+ improve at making) meaningful mutations to code. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896 1/4
linkedin.com/slink?code=eBt… @johnissimba, @dharthvader, @sonicace22, @aaerra21, @edelinechen, @lenokenjr, @npatel1004
How will khan academy facilitate mentorship? MOOCs allow access to content not personalized help. #salmit
From Antikythera mechanism to SpaceStations, we are still curious about this beautiful night sky. I am.
Really getting a hang of @twbootstrap and @jquery. Totally modern tools.
The winners of 6.470 have been announced! 6.470.scripts.mit.edu/2013/competiti… #mit #iap #webprogramming