Ioana Marinescu

I am a PhD student at the NYU Center for Data Science. My broad research interests include meta-learning, reasoning, and priors:

meta-learning: understanding in-context vs. in-weights learning for pretraining and finetuning
reasoning: disentangling abstract reasoning from task-specific content
priors: learning useful priors.

Prior to NYU, I graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. I previously worked on inductive bias distillation into neural networks, symbolic regression, and noun compound understanding.

news

Aug 2025	I attended Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer School in Woods Hole, MA.

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

Abs DOI HTML PDF Video

In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.