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Chris J. Maddison
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Joined
November 2016
Names
Chris J. Maddison
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Chris Maddison
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Christopher Maddison
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Chris J Maddison
Emails
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****@cs.toronto.edu
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****@stats.ox.ac.uk
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****@google.com
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****@ias.edu
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****@deepmind.com
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Personal Links
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Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science,
University of Toronto
(toronto.edu)
2020
–
Present
Researcher
Google
(google.com)
2016
–
2025
Postdoc
Institue for Advanced Study, Princeton
(ias.edu)
2019
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2020
PhD student
University of Oxford
(ox.ac.uk)
2016
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2020
MS student
University of Toronto
(toronto.edu)
2012
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2014
Undergrad student
University of Toronto
(toronto.edu)
2007
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2012
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisor
Yee Whye Teh
2016
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Present
PhD Advisor
Arnaud Doucet
2016
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Present
Expertise
Scaling laws
2024
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Present
Foundation models
2024
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Present
Representation learning
2020
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Present
Variational inference
2015
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Present
Monte Carlo methods
2013
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Present
Generative models
2013
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Present
Publications
Noisy Quadratic Models of Scaling Dynamics
Chuning Li
,
Chris J. Maddison
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Reasoning to Learn from Latent Thoughts
Yangjun Ruan
,
Neil Band
,
Chris J. Maddison
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Tatsunori Hashimoto
ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
Readers:
Everyone
Enumerate-Conjecture-Prove: Formally Solving Answer-Construction Problems in Math Competitions
Jialiang Sun
,
Yuzhi Tang
,
Ao Li
,
Chris J. Maddison
,
Kuldeep S. Meel
ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
Readers:
Everyone
Bayesian Sensitivity of Causal Inference Estimators under Evidence-Based Priors
Nikita Dhawan
,
Daniel Shen
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Leonardo Cotta
,
Chris J. Maddison
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop CauScien Oral
Readers:
Everyone
Bayesian Sensitivity of Causal Inference Estimators under Evidence-Based Priors
Nikita Dhawan
,
Daniel Shen
,
Leonardo Cotta
,
Chris J. Maddison
Accepted by TMLR
Readers:
Everyone
Measuring Scientific Capabilities of Language Models with a Systems Biology Dry Lab
Haonan Duan
,
Stephen Zhewen Lu
,
Caitlin F. Harrigan
,
Nishkrit Desai
,
Jiarui Lu
,
Michał Koziarski
,
Leonardo Cotta
,
Chris J. Maddison
GenBio 2025 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
BioReason: Incentivizing Multimodal Biological Reasoning within a DNA-LLM Model
Adibvafa Fallahpour
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Andrew Magnuson
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Purav Gupta
,
Shihao Ma
,
Jack Naimer
,
Arnav Shah
,
Haonan Duan
,
Omar Ibrahim
,
Hani Goodarzi
,
Chris J. Maddison
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BO WANG
NeurIPS 2025 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Measuring Scientific Capabilities of Language Models with a Systems Biology Dry Lab
Haonan Duan
,
Stephen Zhewen Lu
,
Caitlin Fiona Harrigan
,
Nishkrit Desai
,
Jiarui Lu
,
Michał Koziarski
,
Leonardo Cotta
,
Chris J. Maddison
NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
Readers:
Everyone
A Geometric Analysis of PCA
Ayoub El Hanchi
,
Murat A Erdogdu
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Chris J. Maddison
NeurIPS 2025 poster
Readers:
Everyone
LM Agents May Fail to Act on Their Own Risk Knowledge
Yuzhi Tang
,
Tianxiao Li
,
Elizabeth Li
,
Chris J. Maddison
,
Honghua Dong
,
Yangjun Ruan
COLM 2025
Readers:
Everyone
View all 73 publications
Co-Authors
Adam R. Kosiorek
Adibvafa Fallahpour
Aja Huang
Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Alireza Makhzani
Andreas Krause
Andrew Magnuson
Andrew Wang
Andriy Mnih
Anvith Thudi
Ao Li
Arnaud Doucet
Arnav Shah
Arthur Guez
Ashish J Khisti
Ashish Khisti
Assaf Schuster
Ayoub El Hanchi
BO WANG
Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Bobby He
Brendan O'Donoghue
Caitlin F. Harrigan
Caitlin Fiona Harrigan
Charline Le Lan
View all 142 co-authors