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Lightning Talks!The Role of TCS in Modern Machine Learning2026-05-26
A rapid-fire set of concrete results: an online load‑balancing scheme learns from a 1% sample and achieves a 1+ε load guarantee (using fractional relaxations…
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Disincentivizing HallucinationThe Role of TCS in Modern Machine Learning2026-05-26
Joint work with Santosh Vempala, Ofir Nachum and Edwin Zhang argues hallucinations arise because benchmarks reward guessing, not humility, and demonstrates…
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Validation by ListeningDecoding Communication in Nonhuman Species IV2025-07-30
Claims a reference-free ET shuffling method can validate translators using only target text, tests it with GPT-4.1/3.5 on real and synthetic conlangs including…
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First-Person Fairness in ChatbotsUnknown Futures of Generalization 20242024-12-02
Defines first-person fairness as fairness toward the individual user and gives a repeatable pipeline: use public chat corpora (LMSYS, WildChat), a…
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When calibration goes awry: hallucination in language modelsEmerging Generalization Settings 20242024-09-09
Claim: pretraining’s likelihood objective naturally produces pretraining→calibration which, under sparse factual coverage, forces hallucination; tools…
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Succinct Neural NetworksLower Bounds, Learning, and Average-Case Complexity2023-02-13
Proposes a DNN architecture that is succinct meaning a single constant-size neural network S is convolved and recurrently applied to simulate the tableau of…
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OmnipredictorsITCS 20222022-01-31
Shows that a multi-calibrated predictor (computed from data via a weak agnostic learner and multicalibration algorithms) serves as an omnipredictor for…
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Designing and Evaluating LivefontsUIST 20172017-10-22
Animated alphabets called Livefonts are built as colored block + motion combinations, chosen by a crowd-sourced perceptual survey (50 MTurk workers giving…
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On Suggesting Phrases vs. Predicting Words for Mobile Text CompositionUIST 20162016-10-16
Extends a mobile keyboard to show phrase previews under the three next-word slots and accept them with repeated taps; built a prototype that pulls phrases from…
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Reading and Learning SmartfontsUIST 20162016-10-16
Redesigns of Latin glyphs are encoded as one-to-one smartfonts rendered with a tricolor 2x3 grid and colored groups chosen from a confusion matrix computed…
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