Sean McLeish

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I am Sean McLeish, a third year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Maryland advised by Tom Goldstein. I graduated from the University of Warwick in 2023 with a first class BSc (Hons) in Discrete Mathematics. My research currently focuses on algorithmic reasoning and language modelling.

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Gemstones: A Model Suite for Multi-Faceted Scaling Laws
Sean McLeish, John Kirchenbauer, David Yu Miller, Siddharth Singh, Abhinav Bhatele, Micah Goldblum, Ashwinee Panda and Tom Goldstein
NeurIPS 2025
paper | code | Hugging Face

Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
Jonas Geiping, Sean McLeish, Neel Jain, John Kirchenbauer, Siddharth Singh, Brian Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Abhinav Bhatele and Tom Goldstein
NeurIPS 2025
paper | code | Hugging Face

The CLRS-Text Algorithmic Reasoning Language Benchmark
Larisa Markeeva*, Sean McLeish*, Borja Ibarz*, Wilfried Bounsi, Olga Kozlova, Alex Vitvitskyi, Charles Blundell, Tom Goldstein, Avi Schwarzschild and Petar Veličković
ICML DMLR Workshop 2024
paper | code | Hugging Face

Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
Sean McLeish*, Arpit Bansal*, Alex Stein, Neel Jain, John Kirchenbauer, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Abhinav Bhatele, Jonas Geiping, Avi Schwarzschild and Tom Goldstein
NeurIPS 2024
paper | code

[Re] End-to-End Algorithm Synthesis with Recurrent Networks: Logical Extrapolation Without Overthinking
Sean McLeish and Long Tran-Thanh
ReScience Volume 9 Issue 2, Journal to Conference Track NeurIPS 2023
paper | code

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