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I have an opening for a post-doc position: I am looking for smart people with a strong CV in optimization and/or online learning All my ex post-docs (Kwang-Sung (Kwang) Jun, Mingrui Liu, and El Mehdi SAAD) became assistant professors, I'd like to continue this trend 😉 Please share it!

This is not only NOT "next level", this is a completely natural and expected requirement for any reputable AI/ML venue. Reviewers who don't get this do not understand science well enough to play in the NHL of AI. Period.

A related tech report by my student from a month ago: Hessian of Perplexity for Large Language Models by PyTorch autograd (Open Source) arxiv.org/abs/2504.04520

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I expect top-quality reviews from NeurIPS this year, as usual.

I expect top-quality reviews from NeurIPS this year, as usual.

I expect top-quality reviews from NeurIPS this year, as usual.

I expect top-quality reviews from NeurIPS this year, as usual.

new math youtube streamer just dropped

I expect top-quality reviews from NeurIPS this year, as usual.

I expect top-quality reviews from NeurIPS this year, as usual.

We are excited about this work; and are thankful to the outstanding prior efforts of the folks who developed / analyzed Muon and Scion, including Keller Jordan Yuchen Yin Vlado Boza Jiacheng You, Franz Cesista, Laker Newhouse, Jeremy Bernstein, Thomas Pethick, Wanyun Xie, Kimon

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Are you interested in the new Muon/Scion/Gluon method for training LLMs? To run Muon, you need to approximate the matrix sign (or polar factor) of the momentum matrix. We've developed an optimal method *The PolarExpress* just for this! If you're interested, climb aboard 1/x

Hi from Vienna! Attending the Third Vienna Workshop on Computational Optimization 2025 (VWCO25)... ps-mathematik.univie.ac.at/e/index.php?ev…

On Monday June 16, I will be in Bratislava, Slovakia - visiting the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT). I will give a talk at KiNiT at 12:30. Hope to see some old friends, and hope to make new ones!