Chan, Lawrence

1. Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks
   2025/03/18 by Thomas Kwa, Ben West, Kwa, Thomas +48 · 26 voices · 40 citations
   #cs.AI #cs.LG
2. Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
   2025/07/07 by Gheorghe Comanici, Comanici, Gheorghe, Eric Bieber +6844 · 8 voices · 1371 citations
   #cs.CL #cs.AI
3. The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective
   2022/08/30 by Ngo, Richard, Chan, Lawrence, Mindermann, Sören · 8 voices · 31 citations
   #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG)
4. Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability
   2023/01/12 by Neel Nanda, Lawrence Chan, Nanda, Neel +8 · 3 voices · 106 citations
   Computer Science · Engineering · Neuroscience · #Advanced Memory and Neural Computing #Neural Networks and Applications #Neural dynamics and brain function #cs.AI #cs.LG
5. RE-Bench: Evaluating frontier AI R&D capabilities of language model agents against human experts
   2024/11/22 by Hjalmar Wijk, Tao Lin, Wijk, Hjalmar +47 · 3 voices · 11 citations
   Computer Science · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) #cs.AI #cs.LG
6. A Toy Model of Universality: Reverse Engineering How Networks Learn Group Operations
   2023/02/06 by Chughtai, Bilal, Chan, Lawrence, Nanda, Neel · 13 citations
   #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Representation Theory (math.RT)
7. Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks
   2023/12/18 by Kinniment, Megan, Sato, Lucas Jun Koba, Du, Haoxing +10 · 10 citations
   #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG)
8. Mathematical Models of Computation in Superposition
   2024/08/10 by Kaarel Hänni, Hänni, Kaarel, Jake Mendel +5 · 7 citations
   Computer Science · #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
9. Adversarial Training for High-Stakes Reliability
   2022/05/03 by Daniel M. Ziegler, Seraphina Nix, Ziegler, Daniel M. +21 · 3 citations
   Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning #Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
10. Language models are better than humans at next-token prediction
    2022/12/21 by Buck Shlegeris, Shlegeris, Buck, Fabien Roger +5 · 3 citations
    Computer Science · #Topic Modeling #Text Readability and Simplification #Natural Language Processing Techniques
11. Optimal Cost Design for Model Predictive Control
    2021/04/23 by Jain, Avik, Chan, Lawrence, Brown, Daniel S. +1 · 2 citations
    #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Robotics (cs.RO) #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
12. The Assistive Multi-Armed Bandit
    2019/01/24 by Lawrence S. Chan, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Chan, Lawrence +5 · 1 citation
    Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Auction Theory and Applications #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
13. HCAST: Human-Calibrated Autonomy Software Tasks
    2025/03/21 by David B. Rein, Rein, David, Becker, Joel +38 · 3 citations
    Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
14. Human irrationality: both bad and good for reward inference
    2021/11/12 by Chan, Lawrence, Critch, Andrew, Dragan, Anca · 1 citation
    #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG)
15. Compact Proofs of Model Performance via Mechanistic Interpretability
    2024/06/17 by Jason N. Gross, Rajashree Agrawal, Gross, Jason +13 · 1 citation
    Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning and Algorithms #Model Reduction and Neural Networks