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Sreejan Kumar
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Joint Postdoc at Columbia @ZuckermanBrain and NYU @NYUPsych. Supported by @NYASciences. Prev at: Princeton PhD, RS Intern @Meta, Yale '19
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    May 11
    I'm excited to share my new work joint with @csaba_botos: how well do frontier LRMs like DeepSeek-V4 learn novel video games and predict brain signatures associated with game learning? We found that they achieve SOTA on both game performance and brain predictivity! Thread 1/7
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    Botos Csabi
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    May 11
    Jeee 🐦‍⬛ I am very proud of our joint effort with @sreejan_kumar Kumar on the project "Reason to Play" LRMs show human-like rule discovery, and their hidden states predict human brain activity during gameplay. Interactive demo + paper: botcs.github.io/reason-to-play/
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    Jul 5, 2025
    I defended my PhD!
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    Dec 4, 2022
    Best #NeurIPS ever! Won Outstanding Paper AND met @ylecun!!
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    Nov 21, 2022
    Exciting to share that our work won the Outstanding Paper Award at #NeurIPS2022!! This year, awarded to only 13 out of ~10k submissions blog.neurips.cc/2022/11/21/ann…. Super thankful for all my cross-discipline collaborators from @PrincetonNeuro, @PrincetonCS, and @DeepMind 🎉🎉🎉
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    May 25, 2022
    Ecstatic to share a new preprint "Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines" arxiv.org/abs/2205.11558
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    May 25, 2022
    Ecstatic to share a new preprint "Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines" arxiv.org/abs/2205.11558
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    Sreejan Kumar
    @sreejan_kumar
    Jul 1, 2024
    Excited to share our work now published in Nature Communications - shared functional specialization in tansformer language models and the human brain! With co-first author @tedsumers, senior author @samnastase and others (@hawkrobe, @TakaYamakoshi). [1/n] nature.com/articles/s4146…
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    Apr 5, 2022
    arxiv.org/abs/2204.01437 Excited to share a new preprint! In this work, we present "task metamers" as a way to study the difference between human and neural network behavior in the context of meta-reinforcement learning of task distributions with underlying abstract structure.
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    Sreejan Kumar
    @sreejan_kumar
    Sep 15, 2022
    I am incredibly excited to announce that this work has been accepted to #NEURIPS2022 (and flagged for an award!)
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    May 25, 2022
    Ecstatic to share a new preprint "Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines" arxiv.org/abs/2205.11558
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    Sreejan Kumar
    @sreejan_kumar
    Oct 2, 2023
    New preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2309.17363) with incredible PNI second year co-first author, Declan Campbell! In this work, we show how ANNs can yield human behavior on abstract processing of geometric stimuli, providing an alternative to symbolic LoT models in this domain. [1/n]
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    Relational Constraints On Neural Networks Reproduce Human Biases...
    Uniquely among primates, humans possess a remarkable capacity to recognize and manipulate abstract structure in the service of task goals across a broad range of behaviors. One illustration of...
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    Sreejan Kumar
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    Oct 7, 2020
    Excited to share a new preprint w/ great collaborators, Ishita Dasgupta, Jon Cohen, Nathaniel Daw (@nathanieldaw ), and Tom Griffiths( @cocosci_lab) on meta-learning in humans and artificial agents! arxiv.org/abs/2010.02317
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    Sreejan Kumar
    @sreejan_kumar
    Oct 25, 2022
    Happy to say that this work was designated as an Oral presentation at #NeurIPS2022!
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    Sreejan Kumar
    @sreejan_kumar
    May 25, 2022
    Ecstatic to share a new preprint "Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines" arxiv.org/abs/2205.11558
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    Sreejan Kumar
    @sreejan_kumar
    Oct 13, 2023
    Excited to be a part of this community!
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    Google AI
    @GoogleAI
    Oct 13, 2023
    In 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship Program to recognize and support outstanding graduate students pursuing exceptional research in computer science and related fields. Today, we congratulate the recipients of the 2023 Google PhD Fellowship! goo.gle/3PYfLXl
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    Sreejan Kumar
    @sreejan_kumar
    Jan 3, 2023
    Check this out! This kind of work is going to be hugely important in the next coming years
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    Edward Tian
    @edward_the6
    Jan 3, 2023
    I spent New Years building GPTZero — an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written
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    Sreejan Kumar
    @sreejan_kumar
    Apr 29, 2025
    Excited to join this community and incredibly grateful to the New York Academy of Sciences and Leon Levy Foundation for funding my postdoctoral research!
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    NYAS
    @NYASciences
    Apr 29, 2025
    Congratulations to the 2025 #LeonLevyScholars!🎉 Announcing the 2025 #LeonLevyScholars, in partnership with the Leon Levy Foundation. Recipients participate in a multi-year postdoctoral program to advance their careers. Read more about the Scholars: bit.nyas.org/3Yoa6Pf
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