John Lafferty

Professor, Yale University

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July 2019

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John Lafferty

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****@yale.edu (Confirmed)

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Yale University (yale.edu)

2017 – Present

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Unlocking Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Transformers via Latent Space Reasoning
Awni Altabaa, Siyu Chen, John Lafferty, Zhuoran Yang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Information-Computation Tradeoffs for Noiseless Linear Regression with Oblivious Contamination
Ilias Diakonikolas, Chao Gao, Daniel Kane, John Lafferty, Ankit Pensia
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
CoT Information: Improved Sample Complexity under Chain-of-Thought Supervision
Awni Altabaa, Omar Montasser, John Lafferty
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Disentangling and Integrating Relational and Sensory Information in Transformer Architectures
Awni Altabaa, John Lafferty
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Disentangling and Integrating Relational and Sensory Information in Transformer Architectures
Awni Altabaa, John Lafferty
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Hierarchical Relational Representations through Relational Convolutions
Awni Altabaa, John Lafferty
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Relational Convolutional Networks: A framework for learning representations of hierarchical relations
Awni Altabaa, John Lafferty
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Abstractors and relational cross-attention: An inductive bias for explicit relational reasoning in Transformers
Awni Altabaa, Taylor Whittington Webb, Jonathan D. Cohen, John Lafferty
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Convergence and Alignment of Gradient Descent with Random Backpropagation Weights
Ganlin Song, Ruitu Xu, John Lafferty
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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