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Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL
Joined September 2015
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Lawyers of X: ChatGPT's training opt-out only stops using chats to train the models. Staff can still access content, and the terms give you ownership of your input but no confidentiality obligation. So if I paste an unpublished research idea in, what protects it?
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Alireza Talebpour retweeted
The Universal Quantum Transformer now speaks. We previously showed the UQT could learn exact mathematics (modular arithmetic and non-Abelian algebra) on a 5-qubit circuit with fewer than 700 parameters. Today, we present its results on language, and they are just as striking. The benchmark: SCAN "add jump." Train the model on "walk left," "run right," and "look around," but never show "jump" combined with any direction. Then ask it to classify "jump left" in zero-shot. Standard Transformers fail this. Despite hundreds of thousands of parameters, they oscillate between 0% and 100% at convergence. They never crystallize. The UQT, with 1,650 parameters on a 6-qubit register, crystallized into stable 100% zero-shot accuracy. Then we ran it on physical IBM Quantum hardware: 10/10 evaluations passed. Why does it work? Verbs and directions occupy orthogonal subspaces of the quantum state. The circuit does not interpolate. It physically superposes two independent geometric representations and reads both simultaneously. The physics composes the language. By construction. We have now validated crystallization across four domains: ⚛️ Modular addition — 551 params ⚛️ Modular multiplication — 551 params ⚛️ Non-Abelian permutations (S₄) — 690 params ⚛️ Linguistic compositionality (SCAN) — 1,650 params 40 hardware evaluations. 39/40 passed. 100% on every unseen generalization test. Classical networks approximate algebra with statistics. The UQT is algebra. Full blog post below. 👇 Blog post: medium.com/@quantaeon.ai/the…
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Alireza Talebpour retweeted
For years, AI has moved in one direction: Larger models. Larger data centers. Greater dependence on the cloud. What if more intelligence does not require more scale? At @Quantaeon, we are building quantum-inspired AI for private, local, enterprise intelligence. Read more about our core technology: medium.com/@quantaeon.ai/why… @artalebpour @sungyongchung @IBMResearch @IBM
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Hoping to get access to Genie 3 for a project that could help save countless lives. Any chance to collaborate, @GoogleDeepMind?
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We are pleased to welcome @artalebpour to the first CCAT Research Review of 2025! Professor Talebpour will highlight his work aimed at optimizing #electricVehicle charging infrastructure locations. 🗓️ Tuesday, February 18th | 1:00 PM ET 📌 @UMTRI 🎫 myumi.ch/egeey
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I have bought 5 new @continentaltire tires for my @Tesla Model Y in less than 15 months. Somehow, there’s always a nail in the tire, and it’s deemed unrepairable. This is ridiculous! Why can’t Tesla find a better tire manufacturer?!!
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Thank you @AirCanada for stranding my two elderly (87 and 77 years old) parents-in-law in Vancouver airport. They have their US green card and yet, your agents refusing to check them in for no reason. Instead they are just laughing at them and ignoring them. THANK YOU!
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Here is the third episode of the #TFTC podcast. @LudoLeclercq and Nikolas Geroliminis talk about network-level traffic flow, the importance of open data, and many other topics. Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/BAGKOd9yI1w
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Here is the second episode of the #TFTC podcast. This episode explores Self-Organized Criticality, Power Law, and a Scaling Theory of Urban Congestion with @jorge_laval. Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/rwHfha4yVz0
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It was an honor to share our research at the @ARPAE Energy Innovation Summit. Our @ENERGY-sponsored research aims to develop an innovative approach to freight and energy systems modeling that focuses on low-carbon and resilient freight transport. 🖥️🚚
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A super exciting presentation by @b_rational discussing flow efficiency and equity in urban traffic. @InfoNUTC @UMTRI #CCAT
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Do you think @Tesla can put their robotaxis on the road this year?
12%Yes - tried FSD before
38%No - tried FSD before
25%Yes - never tried FSD
25%No - never tried FSD
8 votes • Final results
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Excited to share the first episode of the #TFTC podcast recording. In this episode, we explore the Past, Present, and Future of Traffic Flow Theory with @b_rational. Watch now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=4ZIek7wz…
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Resilitix is excited to receive a SBIR Phase I Award from @nsf to support our R&D efforts to bring the most advanced AI technology to community resilience and disaster situational awareness efforts. #ResilienceTech #AI nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAwar…
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Should we ban the use of LLMs (like ChatGPT) in university courses?
0%Yes!
100%No!
6 votes • Final results
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Our faculty leads are working on six new projects that explore sustainable transportation and materials ♻️, integrating food waste into roadways 🍎🛣️, transit ridership 🚐, and connected and autonomous vehicles. Learn more: ow.ly/rWse50Q4Ipl
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Alireza Talebpour retweeted
Exciting opportunity for young researchers in the CPS community: risingstars.linklab.virginia…
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Concerns are growing around using ChatGPT to generate academic papers nature.com/articles/d41586-0… – at Champaign, IL
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Support Iranian Students Applying to US Graduate Programs - Sign the Petition! chng.it/HgB4mxcq via @Change – at Urbana, IL
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Alireza Talebpour retweeted
It's been an incredible and intense 10-week. We are officially a @UNSW spinout, planning to raise our seed round 💰 in mid-Jan next year. Get in touch if you'd like to join us on our journey, making the world a more #walkable🚶🏿‍♀️ place for everyone with better maps 🗺.
We've completed the incredible @UNSWFounders 10x Accel Program. Happy to announce that footpath.ai is now officially a @UNSW spinout. We'll be raising our seed round 💰 in mid-Jan 2023. If you are an #investor and interested, please get in touch.
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