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Nikos Karalias

@stalence.bsky.social

postdoc at MIT CSAIL working on solving combinatorial problems with neural networks

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DiffCoALG@NeurIPS 2025 About this Workshop Combinatorial algorithms are fundamental across a wide range of domains, owing to their ability to model optimization and decision-making tasks under complex constraints. These alg...

Can LLMs reason about combinatorial problems?
Join DiffCoALG @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 β€” where discrete algorithms meet differentiable ML.

πŸ“… Deadline: *extended* to Aug 31 (AOE)!
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24.08.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DiffCoALG@NeurIPS 2025 About this Workshop Combinatorial algorithms are fundamental across a wide range of domains, owing to their ability to model optimization and decision-making tasks under complex constraints. These alg...

πŸ”₯ New workshop at @neuripsconf.bsky.social!
DiffCoALG bridges the gap between classic algorithms & differentiable learning.
Think: LLM reasoning, routing, SAT, MIP β€” neurally optimized.
πŸ“Œ Submit by Aug 22! πŸ€–πŸ§ 
πŸ”— sites.google.com/view/diffcoa...
#NeurIPS2025

12.08.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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DiffCoALG@NeurIPS 2025 About this Workshop Combinatorial algorithms are fundamental across a wide range of domains, owing to their ability to model optimization and decision-making tasks under complex constraints. These alg...

πŸ”₯ New workshop at @neuripsconf.bsky.social!
DiffCoALG bridges the gap between classic algorithms & differentiable learning.
Think: LLM reasoning, routing, SAT, MIP β€” neurally optimized end-to-end.

πŸ“Œ Submit by Aug 22!
πŸ”— sites.google.com/view/diffcoa...
#NeurIPS2025

12.08.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Totally admit I may have not kept up with people's opinions though πŸ˜…

16.03.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like there are quite a few top people in TCS with "well adjusted" opinions, no?
Pipeline makes it sound like a regular occurrence.

Does the subfield of TCS may matter? I can't think of many bad examples of top people working in complexity theory right now who are agi-brained.

16.03.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

New paper: Simulating Time With Square-Root Space

people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/time-vs-...

It's still hard for me to believe it myself, but I seem to have shown that TIME[t] is contained in SPACE[sqrt{t log t}].

To appear in STOC. Comments are very welcome!

21.02.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 14

This sounds like it could take found footage (horror) movies to the next level. I'm definitely sold :D

20.01.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yea I thought of Rashomon as well :D

20.01.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean make it in a similar style to Eno. Would be cool to see people collaborating online to piece it together. Seems like there's a lot of potential in this direction πŸ˜…

20.01.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yea fair. I like the concept quite a bit. Audiences are encouraged to discuss the movie with others to get additional content out of it. Wonder if it's possible to make a "typical" whodunnit movie where you have several versions of the film and you need to watch all of them to figure it out.

20.01.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely enjoyed the overall vibe. I think that worked. But a lot of things have changed in music over the past 50 years and with the clips they showed I couldn't quite get a feel for how his own approach and attitude towards all the new developments (be it sampling or whatever) may have evolved.

20.01.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There were a few parts that felt out of place, and I would've liked to see more stories from the 2000s and onward. Most of the stories in my screening were in the 70s-90s range. In any case, I'm really curious about how much the content varies.

19.01.2025 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I watched it yesterday so here's my update: Overall enjoyable watch. I like the glitchy aesthetic and the way the stories were presented worked better than I would've expected. On the other hand, it was a bit all over the place so I couldn't quite feel any sense of progress in the movie.

19.01.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wasn't aware of this so ty for posting. Just got a ticket for the Boston screening!

08.01.2025 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I hate to be that person, but I've found chatgpt to be useful in some cases (definitely not a consistent thing) that are somewhat like this; i.e., when I'm looking for slightly more 'esoteric' math. Even if incorrect, it may sometimes drop useful terms or sentences to fuel further googling.

24.11.2024 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Has to be "mischievous". For whatever reason a lot of people pronounce it "mischieveeous".

21.11.2024 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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