I am interested in language models. Recently, I have focused on their reasoning capabilities in continuous spaces, including looped and latent transformers and flow language models. In the past, I focused on geometric deep learning, with an emphasis on data-efficient and generalizable approaches to learning symmetries.
Beyond research, I enjoy playing and watching football (soccer). I support Chelsea FC and Beşiktaş JK and rarely miss a match. I also enjoy solving challenging physics problems and teaching others. I lead Team Azerbaijan at international physics olympiads, including IPhO and EuPhO.
I am always open to discussing collaborations, research, or interesting ideas. Feel free to email me for a virtual chat.
@article{suleymanzade2026thinkingloopedflows,title={Thinking with Looped Flows},author={Suleymanzade, Ayhan and Lee, Chanhyuk and Eijkelboom, Floor and Boffi, Nicholas M. and Ceylan, İsmail İlkan and Kim, Jinwoo},year={2026},journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.11801},eprint={2609.11801},archiveprefix={arXiv},primaryclass={cs.LG},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11801},}
ICLR 2026 Workshop
MUX: Continuous Reasoning via Multiplexed Tokens
Ayhan Suleymanzade, Halil Alperen Gozeten, Michael Bronstein, and 2 more authors
@article{suleymanzade2026mux,title={{MUX}: Continuous Reasoning via Multiplexed Tokens},author={Suleymanzade, Ayhan and Gozeten, Halil Alperen and Bronstein, Michael and Ceylan, İsmail İlkan and Kim, Jinwoo},year={2026},journal={ICLR 2026 Workshop on LLM Reasoning},eprint={2607.18264},archiveprefix={arXiv},primaryclass={cs.AI},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18264},}
ACL 2025 Oral
Diffusion Models Through a Global Lens: Are They Culturally Inclusive?
Zahra Bayramli*, Ayhan Suleymanzade*, Na Min An, and 5 more authors
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
@article{bayramli2025diffusionmodelsgloballens,title={Diffusion Models Through a Global Lens: Are They Culturally Inclusive?},author={Bayramli, Zahra and Suleymanzade, Ayhan and An, Na Min and Ahmad, Huzama and Kim, Eunsu and Park, Junyeong and Thorne, James and Oh, Alice},year={2025},journal={Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},oral={Oral},}
ICLR 2025 Spotlight
Revisiting Random Walks for Learning on Graphs
Jinwoo Kim, Olga Zaghen*, Ayhan Suleymanzade*, and 2 more authors
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
@article{kim2025revisitingrandomwalkslearning,title={Revisiting Random Walks for Learning on Graphs},author={Kim, Jinwoo and Zaghen, Olga and Suleymanzade, Ayhan and Ryou, Youngmin and Hong, Seunghoon},year={2025},journal={International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},spotlight={Spotlight},}
NeurIPS 2023 Spotlight
Learning Probabilistic Symmetrization for Architecture Agnostic Equivariance
Jinwoo Kim, Tien Dat Nguyen, Ayhan Suleymanzade, and 2 more authors
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
@article{kimd2024learningprobabilisticsymmetrizationarchitecture,title={Learning Probabilistic Symmetrization for Architecture Agnostic Equivariance},author={Kim, Jinwoo and Nguyen, Tien Dat and Suleymanzade, Ayhan and An, Hyeokjun and Hong, Seunghoon},year={2023},journal={Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},spotlight={Spotlight},}
Honors
2026
Summa Cum Laude, KAIST — Graduated 2nd out of 143 students in the Computer Science Department.
2025
Q-Day Award, Advanced Research Division, KAIST — Recognized for contributions to academic research.
2022-2024
Dean's List, KAIST — Awarded four times.
2024
Presidential Fellowship, KAIST
2020-2021
Bronze Medal and Honorable Mention, International Physics Olympiad (IPhO)
2020-2021
Two Gold Medals, Azerbaijan National Physics Olympiad
2020
Honorable Mention, International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA)
2019
Silver Medal, International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO)
