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Ida Momennejad
@criticalneuro
Principal Researcher @MSFTResearch. I study memory & planning in brains. I build & evaluate AI inspired by the brain.
New York, NY
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Joined December 2014
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Sep 29, 2023
    Delighted to share our #neurips2023 paper w @grockious @hmd_palangi et al Evaluating Cognitive Maps & Planning in LLMs with CogEval We test planning in 8 LLMs. Failures like hallucinating invalid paths/falling in loops don't support emergent planning. 1/n arxiv.org/abs/2309.15129
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Jun 28, 2020
    Honored & excited to start as a Senior Researcher in Reinforcement Learning @MSFTResearch NYC! I'll continue to build models & run experiments alongside the incredible RL team-& AI fairness & comp social sci teams-whom I've admired for long. Grateful for supportive mentors 🙏🏼 1/5
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Jul 24, 2020
    I have a reinforcement learning joke, but not sure it's rewarding.
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    Kording Lab 🦖
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    Jul 24, 2020
    I have a causality joke, but not sure it is the reason why you laugh.
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Dec 3, 2021
    Excited to say I was promoted to Principal Researcher @MSFTResearch NYC. Cousin wondered if now I chase researchers in the yard & call ppl to my office but @hannawallach says it’s about intellectual innovations with creativity & freedom, & being the goto in my field. Grateful😊
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Sep 27, 2020
    After 15 years, & having done neuroscience & computational research during this time, I am rereading this anthology of philosophy of mind papers. Organized & each paper only few pages. If anyone else is interested, we could communicate reading via tweets or smoke signals or such.
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Nov 14, 2020
    Don’t tell me dogs don’t have theory of mind. Thanks.
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Dec 13, 2021
    Delighted that my paper "Collective Minds: Social Network Topology Shapes Collective Cognition" is out in Philosophical Transactions of @royalsociety issue: ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans & machines’ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
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    Ida Momennejad
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    May 5, 2020
    Honored that my paper is out 🤓 alongside amazing papers 🧠 in an issue by the wonderful @morganbarense & @hugospiers 🙏🏼! I review learning structures w the reinforcement learning framework, & relation to Abstraction, Intrinsic Motivation, & Exploration. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Feb 26, 2020
    New! "Learning Structures: Predictive Representations, Replay, and Generalization" Flexible memory & planning rely on learning compact structures of states. I review how reinforcement learning can acquire structures in absence of rewards. psyarxiv.com/b6sr8 for #cosyne2020
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Sep 3, 2024
    A thread on the history of RL/ML based on Andy Barto's talk #RLC2024: the Reinforcement Learning Conference. Beyond seeing friends & giving talks/panel, talking to @RichardSSutton & hearing Andy Barto revived a need for attention to historical psych/neuro influences on AI. 1/n🧵
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Apr 28, 2021
    After 14 months indoors I spent 3 days hiking in #Yosemite & 2 by the ocean. Can't adequately express the healing, the phenomenology, or the perspective the mountains afford. Every emotion rises on a 6-mile hike & you reconnect to self/nature on the way down. I was born for this.
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Jul 19, 2021
    My dad finally got his first vaccine shot today in Tehran!💉 I’m just back from 2 weeks of visiting him & my sister after 5.5 years of separation by bans &pandemic. Our family love language is discussing theories, mythologies, philosophy, science fiction at the kitchen counter❤️.
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Jan 13, 2022
    Is this a joke? $12,000 to make a paper open access that we submit & review for free?? Even in industry research I can’t justify such a cost. It’s the price of -1 year rent for room in NYC -5 cars -10 laptops -1/3rd annual PhD student salary -1/2 annual nyc min wage Outrageous.
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    Nature Neuroscience
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    Jan 11, 2022
    Replying to @NatureNeuro
    In this scenario, the cost of publication is covered by an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid at the time of publication. The APC for Nature Neuroscience in 2022 is €9,500/US $11,390/£8,290.
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Feb 26, 2020
    New! "Learning Structures: Predictive Representations, Replay, and Generalization" Flexible memory & planning rely on learning compact structures of states. I review how reinforcement learning can acquire structures in absence of rewards. psyarxiv.com/b6sr8 for #cosyne2020
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    Ida Momennejad
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    Mar 26, 2022
    "Mirzakhani did poorly in math in middle school. But a change from [a teacher] who didn’t see her talent to one who did, made all the difference. “It’s so important what others see in you” In 2014 she was the first woman & Iranian to win the Fields Medal" news.stanford.edu/2022/03/15/wom…
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