Dimitris Papailiopoulos
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Dimitris Papailiopoulos
@DimitrisPapail
Researcher @MSFTResearch, AI Frontiers | Prof @UWMadison (on leave) | babas of Inez Lily.








This is who runs this account (Yes I still like cake today as much as my first)



Heard that some frontier models are basically a 48-layer transformer looped twice (48L x 2). Now we are introducing DeepLoop: Depth Scaling for Looped Transformers (arxiv.org/abs/2607.13491), making the loop transformer stable and scalable!

Axiom achieves perfect IMO 2026 scores, with Lean proofs attached. Congratulations!


🚀New paper on Looped Transformers! Latent reasoning is fast, but struggles to match CoT-level accuracy at scale. Can looped Transformers give us both? We find: yes! A looped padded backbone turns out to be a surprisingly simple recipe that works -- It gives latent thoughts a parallel workspace that can be supervised similarly to explicit CoT. 🧵


it really is the age of research. so many novel algorithm breakthroughs already this year, from OPSD, to SDFT, to SDPO, to OPSD (the other one)


New episode of The Information Bottleneck is out! 🥳🥳 We talked with Dimitris Papailiopoulos (@DimitrisPapail) from Microsoft Research and University of Wisconsin–Madison about doing research in the age of agents. Dimitris gave Claude Code and Codex a question he'd been sitting on for years, went out for a Sunday, and came back to an answer. He describes the dread that followed, and why he now calls this the golden age of asking questions. Also in this episode: the smallest transformer that can add, a GSM8K solver made of if-else statements, what happened when he let two Claude instances loose in the same file system, continual learning, and whether information theory still has anything to say about AI. The full episode on the website, YouTube and all the apps

Had a lot of fun discussing with Ravid and Allen a few thoughts on doing research during the golden age of asking questions the-information-bottleneck.com/p/ai-agents-an…






