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Lydia Chilton

@LydiaChilton

Computer Science Professor at Columbia
NY, NY cs.columbia.edu/~chilton/ Joined April 2009
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Lydia Chilton @LydiaChilton
AI has the surprising ability to discover abstract structure from examples. We use this for schema induction, but it can do so much more: find themes in data, discover templates, and generate design patterns. If you're working on structure discovery, pls msg me your ideas/work!
🧩 How do we go from examples to structural insight?
🎭 Surface variation in real-world examples makes it hard to spot deeper patterns.
✨ Introducing Schemex: a system for discovering structure through interactive abstraction & contrastive refinement.
📄arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11795
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Lydia Chilton @LydiaChilton
Thanks, everyone. I'm very grateful to have gotten a Sloan Fellowship. But I also know how frequent and awful rejection is. Here is my rejected Sloan Research Statement (2023), and my awarded research statement (2025), and the difference between them: lydiachilton.substack.com/p/game-of-pivo…
lydiachilton.substack.com Game of Pivots Research, funding, rejection, and what DeepSeek missed...
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