Jacob Andreas
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Who they work with
Jacob Andreas is an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research aims to understand the computational foundations of efficient language learning, and build general-purpose intelligent systems that can communicate effectively with humans and learn from human guidance. He earned a BS from Columbia University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Churchill Scholar. He earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Selected Publications
- Akyürek, E., Damani, M., Zweiger, A., Qiu, L., Guo, H., Pari, J., Kim, Y., & Andreas, J. (2025). The surprising effectiveness of test‑time training for few‑shot learning. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
- Hou, B., Zhang, Y., Andreas, J., & Chang, S. (2025). A probabilistic framework for LLM hallucination detection via belief tree propagation. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 3076–3099).
- Akyürek, A. F., Akyürek, E., Choshen, L., Wijaya, D., & Andreas, J. (2024). Deductive closure training of language models for coherence, accuracy, and updatability. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 (pp. 9802–9818).
Media
- July 8, 2025: MIT News, Study could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning
- July 23, 2024: MIT News, MIT researchers advance automated interpretability in AI models
- July 11, 2024: MIT News, Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated