Rif A. Saurous

Engineer, Director, Google

Joined

September 2017

Names

Rif A. Saurous (Preferred)

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Engineer, Director

Google (google.com)

2007 – Present

PhD student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

1997 – 2002

Student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

1990 – 2002

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Machine Learning

1997 – Present

Signal Processing

1997 – Present

Machine Perception

1997 – Present

Bayesian Methods

1997 – Present

Publications

Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical reinforcement learning
Seijin Kobayashi, Yanick Schimpf, Maximilian Schlegel, Angelika Steger, Maciej Wolczyk, Johannes von Oswald, Nino Scherrer, Kaitlin Maile, Guillaume Lajoie, Blake Aaron Richards, Rif A. Saurous, James Manyika, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Alexander Meulemans, Joao Sacramento
- ICLR 2026 Workshop RSI Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MesaNet: Sequence Modeling by Locally Optimal Test-Time Training
Johannes von Oswald, Nino Scherrer, Seijin Kobayashi, Luca Versari, Songlin Yang, Maximilian Schlegel, Kaitlin Maile, Yanick Schimpf, Oliver Sieberling, Alexander Meulemans, Guillaume Lajoie, Rif A. Saurous, Charlotte Frenkel, Razvan Pascanu, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Joao Sacramento
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
ProbNeRF: Uncertainty-Aware Inference of 3D Shapes from 2D Images
Matthew Douglas Hoffman, Tuan Anh Le, Pavel Sountsov, Christopher Suter, Ben Lee, Vikash Mansinghka, Rif A. Saurous
- AISTATS 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Robust Inverse Graphics via Probabilistic Inference
Tuan Anh Le, Pavel Sountsov, Matthew Douglas Hoffman, Ben Lee, Brian Patton, Rif A. Saurous
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Training Chain-of-Thought via Latent-Variable Inference
Du Phan, Matthew Douglas Hoffman, david dohan, Sholto Douglas, Tuan Anh Le, Aaron T Parisi, Pavel Sountsov, Charles Sutton, Sharad Vikram, Rif A. Saurous
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Grammar Prompting for Domain-Specific Language Generation with Large Language Models
Bailin Wang, Zi Wang, Xuezhi Wang, Yuan Cao, Rif A. Saurous, Yoon Kim
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Sequential Monte Carlo Learning for Time Series Structure Discovery
Feras Saad, Brian Patton, Matthew Douglas Hoffman, Rif A. Saurous, Vikash Mansinghka
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao, Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Abubakar Abid, Adam Fisch, Adam R. Brown, Adam Santoro, Aditya Gupta, Adrià Garriga-Alonso, Agnieszka Kluska, Aitor Lewkowycz, Akshat Agarwal, Alethea Power, Alex Ray, Alex Warstadt, Alexander W. Kocurek, Ali Safaya, Ali Tazarv, Alice Xiang et al. (430 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Language Model Cascades
David Dohan, Winnie Xu, Aitor Lewkowycz, Jacob Austin, David Bieber, Raphael Gontijo Lopes, Yuhuai Wu, Henryk Michalewski, Rif A. Saurous, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Kevin Murphy, Charles Sutton
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
ProbNeRF: Uncertainty-Aware Inference of 3D Shapes from 2D Images
Matthew D. Hoffman, Tuan Anh Le, Pavel Sountsov, Christopher Suter, Ben Lee, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Rif A. Saurous
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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