Assistant Professor @UUtah | PhD from @dsl_ucsb | Prev PostDoc @Snowflake; Intern @FoundationDB @Snowflake @GraySystemsLab
Joined March 2021
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Work done during internship at Snowflake ❄️ accepted at #EMNLP2026🇭🇺.
We present a strikingly easy and intuitive method to enhance retrievers' instruction-following information retrieval capability. Read below and more works at EMNLP coming soon!
arxiv.org/abs/2604.18845
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#SIGMOD2026 SeQureDB Workshop Keynote by Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara): Private Data Querying and LLM Inference with Homomorphic Encryption
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Congratulations to Charles H. Bennett (@IBMResearch) and Gilles Brassard ( @UMontreal) on receiving the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award!
🔗: awards.acm.org/turing
RT @xuandongzhao: Three years ago, in our paper with @yuxiangw_cs and @lileics, we argued that LLM distillation would become a central mark…
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👋 Early versions of Claude Code used RAG + a local vector db, but we found pretty quickly that agentic search generally works better. It is also simpler and doesn’t have the same issues around security, privacy, staleness, and reliability.
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Introducing Prism, a free workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2.
Available today to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account: prism.openai.com/
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Super excited that we’re open sourcing the Dicer autosharder! It’s become a critical piece of infrastructure in Databricks that’s made many of our systems more scalable and reliable, and it’s powered by really cool systems work. databricks.com/blog/open-sou…
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Lots of database action this week. Yes, I have a new start-up @sydhtai with my PhD students (@lmwnshn + @17zhangw) using LLMs/ML to optimize almost everything in @PostgreSQL. The improvements are stunning!
@datadictum posted a new article on our approach: theregister.com/2025/10/22/c…
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[PVLDB] Enhancing Transaction Processing through Indirection Skipping
vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p4104-o…
Whereas VMCache improve pointer swizzing's complexity by removing the swizzling, this work points out that page and frame hints are highly effective, and okay if they're wrong.
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New paper: Can LLMs do multi-step reasoning without chain-of-thought?
Models can answer questions like "Who is the spouse of the singer of Imagine?". But is this true internal reasoning (Imagine->John Lennon->Yoko) or memorization/pattern matching?
We now have a better answer!
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Today Thinking Machines Lab is launching our research blog, Connectionism. Our first blog post is “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference”
We believe that science is better when shared. Connectionism will cover topics as varied as our research is: from kernel numerics to prompt engineering. Here we share what we are working on and connect with the research community frequently and openly.
The name Connectionism is a throwback to an earlier era of AI; it was the name of the subfield in the 1980s that studied neural networks and their similarity to biological brains.
thinkingmachines.ai/blog/def…
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New research agenda we're kickstarting at Berkeley: redesigning data systems to serve the dominant workload of the future: agents!
Agentic speculation is massive, heterogeneous, steerable, and redundant: properties data systems can better support and take advantage of.
Take a look: arxiv.org/abs/2509.00997
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I implemented GRPO and DPO from scratch in vanilla Pytorch to unravel every piece of training details. Hope it could be helpful for those who care about the implementation details of the algorithms. 👉 github.com/mingyin0312/RLFro… #AI #RL #LLM
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Today, I’m launching a deeply personal project. I’m betting $100M that we can help computer scientists create more upside impact for humanity.
Built for and by researchers, including @JeffDean & @jpineau1 on the board, @LaudeInstitute catalyzes research with real-world impact.
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CARLOS ALCARAZ DID THE IMPOSSIBLE 🤯🏆
#RolandGarros
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This year, we are excited to host the 2nd edition of SoCal DB Day this Friday, May 9th @USC! The program is here: sites.google.com/view/socal-…. A huge thank you to our incredible SoCal DB community, and a special thanks to our sponsors: @CSatUSC and @ebay.
