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PhD student @CILVRatNYU. Intern @MSFTResearch || Pre: Student Researcher @GoogleDeepMind , @Meta, @Mila_Quebec, @mcgillu || RL, ML, Neuroscience.
Manhattan, NY im-ant.github.io Joined August 2017
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Anthony GX-Chen Verified account @AntChen_
Why should a generative model be diverse? 👀

If there’s an obviously best answer, why put probability on worse ones?

New paper: a perspective on what diversity is *for*, and an algorithm on post-training for the right amount 🌹.

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Anthony GX-Chen Verified account @AntChen_
And see this concurrent work which shows the ROSA+Max / ReMax set-level objective also works nicely for image diffusion models!

More evidence that this is a general objective that works across many settings :)
Paavo Verified account @PaavoParmas Sep 11
Nice visualizations! And thanks for citing our ReMax that coincides in the max setting. We actually had another concurrent work that uses this objective for diversity in image generation RL post-training:
arxiv.org/abs/2607.14962

The figure below shows one result on promoting color diversity with a distribution over reward functions and optimizing for the max over multiple samples.

First author: @Ku_Onoda
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Anthony GX-Chen Verified account @AntChen_
Check out our new work on how humans & LLMs causally reason and explore 🧐, with freshly collected human adult data!

Some takeaways:
- Both show a bias for disjunctive rules
- LLMs still lag behind the best humans in info gain per action

Accepted at #CogSci2026 🇧🇷
Mandana Samiei @MandanaSamiei Jun 18
We recently investigated how humans and AI reason through causal rules: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06464

We gave adults and LLMs agency to actively experiment using a Blicket causal game, breaking down their process into the iterative loop shown in the following figure:
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Anthony GX-Chen Verified account @AntChen_
Happening *TODAY* at #ICLR2026

Drop by if you want to discuss why diversity collapse happens in post training, and/or how to better RL your LLM :)

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Anthony GX-Chen Verified account @AntChen_ Feb 4
RL causing diversity collapse in generative models (e.g. LLMs) is *not* a training failure.

It’s what KL / entropy-regularized RL is provably *designed* to do.

The good news: we have a simple, principled fix.

Accepted to #ICLR2026

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