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simon sang

Math, econ, and a comp sci minor at Colby College. Previously at Parsifal,NeuralSeek, &Mangusta Capital.

available for work

Research

Selected papers, prototypes, and industry systems, focused on explainability, multimodal reasoning, and governance.

  • Paper

    Beyond Query Linearity

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    Nonlinear query projections in transformer attention. Parameter-matched residual MLP queries beat the linear baseline and a model with 12.5% more non-embedding parameters. Headed to an ICLR 2026 workshop.

    • PyTorch
    • Transformers
    • arXiv 2603.13381
  • Research

    Encoder-Encoder PCN

    A multimodal framework reframing image-text understanding as bidirectional predictive coding over a shared latent memory, co-authored with A. Yeh.

    • TensorFlow
    • Predictive coding
    • Multimodal
  • Research

    ARC Prize 2026

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    A training-free system for the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark that uses zero LLM calls at inference time, pairing LLM-proposed world-model rules with exact replay verification and forward-search planning.

    • World models
    • Search
    • Python
  • Research

    LLM Pragmatics Lab

    Minimal-pair test suites at Colby's Linguistics & NLP Lab that isolate implicature and presupposition, separating real pragmatic inference from surface pattern matching.

    • LLM evaluation
    • NLP
    • Diagnostics
  • Research

    World Models at Algoverse

    Interpretability of learned world representations and JEPA-style predictive models, with an eye toward physical and agent-based applications such as autonomous driving.

    • JEPA
    • Interpretability
  • Industry

    Audit Engine, Parsifal

    An MCP server that generates complete, schema-validated Power BI projects from live SQL schema introspection, plus a multi-tenant row-level-security analytics platform.

    • Python
    • MCP
    • Power BI
    • SQL Server
  • Industry

    AI Council, NeuralSeek

    An LLM governance module with tiered human-in-the-loop review and usage protocols adopted across finance, legal, and HR teams.

    • LLM orchestration
    • Governance
    • RAG