Maya Okawa

Research Scientist at CBS-NTT Program, Harvard University.

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William James Hall - Harvard University

33 Kirkland St

Cambridge, MA 02138

I am a Research Scientist at the CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence at Harvard University, where I study the generalization behaviors of generative AI models.

I received my Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Tokyo, where I contributed to the ATLAS experiment at CERN. In 2022, I earned my PhD in Computer Science from Kyoto University, where my research bridged deep learning with probabilistic modeling, drawing on principles from both social science and physics.

For a detailed overview of my work, please see my publications.

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    Emergence of Hidden Capabilities: Exploring Learning Dynamics in Concept Space
    Maya Okawa, Core F Park, Andrew Lee, and 2 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
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    Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task
    Maya Okawa, Ekdeep S Lubana, Robert Dick, and 1 more author
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
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    Predicting Opinion Dynamics via Sociologically-Informed Neural Networks
    Maya Okawa and Tomoharu Iwata
    In 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2022
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