Tyler LaBonte

@tmlabonte

MTS @MicrosoftAI working on frontier VLM training and multimodal reinforcement learning. ML Theory PhD @GeorgiaTech, Math BS @USC.

Atlanta, GA

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Joined December 2019

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Tyler LaBonte
@tmlabonte
Oct 15
Exciting 3T native multimodal pretraining happening at @MicrosoftAI! Post-training 🔜
Mustafa Suleyman
@mustafasuleyman
Oct 15
We now have state-of-the-art pre-trained base models in the 3T-parameter weight class, built entirely in-house at MAI. Post-training results coming soon -- stay tuned! Lots of details in our technical blog post. microsoft.ai/news/frontier-…
Tyler LaBonte
@tmlabonte
Oct 1
This work has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026 - see you in Atlanta!
Tyler LaBonte
@tmlabonte
Jun 30
New paper — the last and best from my PhD! We show the first end-to-end feature learning analysis of how neural networks overfit to spurious correlations. Our theory implies phase transitions in SGD learning dynamics that match empirical results. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.30444
Tyler LaBonte
@tmlabonte
Sep 24
I've transitioned to Member of Technical Staff @MicrosoftAI focused on frontier VLM training and multimodal reinforcement learning. Looking forward to an exciting new chapter!
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Tyler LaBonte
@tmlabonte
Jun 30
New paper — the last and best from my PhD! We show the first end-to-end feature learning analysis of how neural networks overfit to spurious correlations. Our theory implies phase transitions in SGD learning dynamics that match empirical results. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.30444
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Tyler LaBonte
@tmlabonte
Jun 25
Very cool work from new colleagues at @ms_aifrontiers: most LLM benchmarks are redundant!
Microsoft AI Frontiers
@ms_aifrontiers
Jun 25
Most LLM benchmark scores are predictable before you ever run them. New from the MS AI Frontiers team: BenchPress. The 84-model × 133-benchmark score matrix turns out to be effectively rank-2, so matrix completion fills in the rest. 5 probes recover a model's whole profile.

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