Challenging the Foundation of Computer Science. Bluesky: TTICconnect
Chicago, IL 60637 U.S.A.
Joined July 2011
- Tweets3.2K
- Following374
- Followers2.7K
- Likes2.9K
Pinned Tweet
TTIC is hiring tenure-track faculty! Join a top #computerscience research environment with exceptional PhD students, strong research support, and a uniquely light teaching load. Apply by Dec 1: buff.ly/8HZoyKl
"Scaling Sim2Real Reinforcement Learning," a TTIC Colloquium talk by Osbert Bastani @obastani of @CIS_Penn, is now available to stream on YouTube: buff.ly/jX2NJOD
Congratulations to Professor Nikolaos Tsilivis @nikostsilivis, who received a Coefficient Giving grant to support his project, “Theoretical Foundations of Robust Autoregressive Learning as a Means of Designing Safe and Robust Models.” Read more: buff.ly/slwvXKO
1/6 LLMs with CoT reasoning are powerful, but can be incorrect, even unsafe. “You might like to train...a verifier to interface with these generators to make them more reliable, safe, aligned with your values, and so on," said Avrim Blum, President of TTIC youtube.com/watch?v=qyzuz6ql…
5/6 The question then is, said Blum: "If you have a bound on how many soundness mistakes (k) you are willing to make, what is the minimum number of total mistakes that you might have to make?"
6/6 "You can show that this gives a minimax characterization. There is a deterministic algorithm that guarantees to make at most this many mistakes given the bound on the # of soundness errors, and no algorithm can guarantee less," said Blum. Full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=qyzuz6ql…
Monday, Oct. 19 at 7:00PM: Professor Karen Livescu will present a Café Scientifique, "Will language models help us climb the Tower of Babel?" at The Map Room. Learn more about this free event: buff.ly/kM3CuIU
Friday, October 16th at 11am: Research at TTIC presents Matt Walter @mattrwalter with a talk titled "Learning from Visual Experience: Toward Generalizable Robot Manipulation." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.
“Online Algorithms with Predictions: What Comes Next?" presented by Debmalya Panigrahi at TTIC's LAMP workshop is now available on YouTube: buff.ly/nFypD6T
Today at 11:30am: TTIC Colloquium presents Ravi Kannan, TTIC Adjoint Professor, with a talk titled "SVD provably denoises Nearest Neighbor data." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.
"Conservative Classifiers Do Consistently Well with Improving Agents," a talk by Alec Sun at TTIC's LAMP workshop, is now available to stream on YouTube: buff.ly/23uKtC0
TTIC student Selim Jerad (@selimjerad), along with collaborators Anej Svete, Jiaoda Li, and Ryan Cotterell, present "Disentangling the Expressivity of RoPE" at #COLM2026. Thursday, Oct. 8, 11:00am-1:00pm in Grand Ballroom #103: buff.ly/pq9Yojs
Friday, October 9th at 11am CT: Research at TTIC presents @NikosTsilivis with a talk titled "Learning through Internalization." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.
Thank you all who visited our booth at the South Side Science Festival this weekend! TTIC faculty and students presented interactive demos in #robotics, #speech, #ML, and more. Community engagement like this is at the heart of what we do: buff.ly/YCVCBpx
Congratulations to Professor Will Merrill (@lambdaviking), who received a Coefficient Giving grant to support his project, "From Transformers to Logic, Provably," to decode AI reasoning. Read more about his project: buff.ly/p4n1dT9
Congratulations to Brandie Jones, Executive Administrative Assistant and Outreach Administrator, recipient of the 2026 Latrice Richards Outstanding Administrator Award: buff.ly/CXDyRca
