Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Hiring: richtarik.org/i_join.html

Top 100 NeurIPS 2024 authors in terms of # of accepted papers (kind of):

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Place 8.-14. for my Optimization and Machine Learning Lab at KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Super proud of my brilliant and hard-working team!

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Randomized Iterative Methods for Linear Systems We develop a novel, fundamental and surprisingly simple randomized iterative method for solving consistent linear systems. Our method has six different but equivalent interpretations: sketch-and-proje...

the coordinate-free rand Kaczmarz is not new; see arxiv.org/abs/1506.03296 & follow-up work

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People from my lab attending: Omar Shaikh Omar, Hanmin Li, Kai Yi, Abdurakhmon Sadiev, Kaja Gruntkowska, Egor Shulgin, Artavazd Maranjyan and Marta Pozzi (former intern).

I am not attending NeurIPS this year but many of my students are!

Here are our papers; check them out!

Want to join my lab as an intern, MS/PhD student, PhD student or a postdoc? Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/105097
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When 4 out of 5 reviews are "borderline reject", the authors are on the verge of withdrawing the paper, but then, against all odds, the only "accept" reviewer decides to champion the paper.

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and SLMath Joint Workshop: AI for Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science This is an exciting time for mathematics, as new technologies for mathematical reasoning provide novel opportunities for mathematical research, communication, and discovery. Mathlib, a library of form...

*AI for Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science*, a workshop hosted jointly by the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, will be held in Berkeley at April 7-11, 2025.

simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/si...

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Pushing the Limits of Large Language Model Quantization via the Linearity Theorem Quantizing large language models has become a standard way to reduce their memory and computational costs. Typically, existing methods focus on breaking down the problem into individual layer-wise sub...

Paper: Pushing the Limits of Large Language Model Quantization via the Linearity Theorem ( arxiv.org/abs/2411.17525 )
PR to Huggingface Transformers: github.com/huggingface/...

HIGGS - A simple data-free LLM quantization method using Hadamard rotations and MSE-optimal grids, which outperforms all prior data-free approaches such as the extremely popular NF4 quantized format.

One of the author: @richtarik.bsky.social

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