he/him š Research at @percepta Prev: @StanfordHAI @CornellORIE @MSFTResearch, @IBMResearch, @uoftmie
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Joined January 2021
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Connor Lawless retweeted
I've been thinking a lot about AI slop lately, and there are a few thoughts that I wanted to document, not because they are finalized and wonāt change, but just in case others find them useful. 1/n
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I'm hiring for our interpretable world modeling effort at Percepta! The core question: how can we make an agent build a simulator, understand a company, and then design a policy, all from unstructured data? Come work with me and our amazing team.
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Connor Lawless retweeted
Neo in the Matrix, learns Kung-Fu without "training" by getting the skill uploaded to his brain.
Our new architecture, Spotlight, enables LLMs to grow and gain new capabilities without changing their weights. Check out our work!
1/ What would it take for LLMs to be able to grow their own capabilities?
We introduce spotlight, a memory architecture with growing capacity but with linear computational complexity. We show that this suffices to host evolving ecosystems like software by building Python directly into an LLM.
We also share some very early language modeling results where it outperforms attention and linear attention on long context capabilities!
Connor Lawless retweeted
1/ What would it take for LLMs to be able to grow their own capabilities?
We introduce spotlight, a memory architecture with growing capacity but with linear computational complexity. We show that this suffices to host evolving ecosystems like software by building Python directly into an LLM.
We also share some very early language modeling results where it outperforms attention and linear attention on long context capabilities!
Connor Lawless retweeted
We can't let frontier labs choose their own auditors - or their own questions.
Connor Lawless retweeted
It's very easy to arm-chair quarterback healthcare transformation from an office in San Francisco. Much harder to actually assemble the avengers in Akron Ohio and try to fix it.
Very proud of the role @percepta plays in this work. Reach out if you want to get on the ground in Akron with our team
In 2024, we made the unprecedented decision to acquire a hospital system. It was an opportunity to create a blueprint for healthcare transformation to make American healthcare proactive, accessible, and affordable.
@SummaHealth and our Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo) revealed their technology transformation stack, partnering with some of our portfolio companies @aidocmed, Clarium, @CommureOs, @poweredbyfabric, @hippocraticai, @judihealth, @transcarent, and @versemedical. @percepta is serving as a transformation partner, unifying the tech stack into a seamless Al-native operating system.
We believe the future of healthcare is health assurance with tech founders and health system leaders working together to reimagine healthcare in the US and beyond.
Connor Lawless retweeted
@LawlessOpt and I are excited to present our #AAAI2026 tutorial on āLLMs for Optimization: Modeling, Solving, and Validating with Generative AI.ā
When: Tuesday, Jan 20, 2026, 8:30amā12:30pm (Singapore time)
Where: Garnet 216 (Singapore EXPO)
Optimization is central to planning, scheduling, and decision-making, but deploying solvers requires deep expertise. Our tutorial covers how LLMs can support the end-to-end optimization pipeline (model formulation, solver configuration, and model validation) and highlights open research directions.
Tutorial page (agenda + reading list): conlaw.github.io/llm_opt_tutā¦
(Connorās intro slides are shown here.)
Thanks to @leo_bix and @madeleineudell for helping put the proposal together.
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Connor Lawless (@LawlessOpt) talks at #cpaior2024 about a new notion of fairness in clustering to ensure minimum majority representation of groups across clusters, which helps shaping more representative electoral districts, & which may shown to be impossible by an exact approach
Connor Lawless retweeted
In my presentation at the AI / OR workshop, I talked about incentives for collaboration across disciplines, touching a bit on journal and conference publishing cultures.
From later conversations, this seems to be less of an issue in IE departments than it is in business schools.
Connor Lawless retweeted
Continuing the second session of the AI / OR workshop, @LawlessOpt talks about using large language models to replace the #orms expert when formulating optimization models, such as for building a constraint programming model for scheduling meetings
Connor Lawless retweeted
Sharing some papers I enjoyed at the OPT workshop at #NeurIPS2023! sorry I couldn't interact with everyone (had a tight flight schedule).
@BaharloueiSina 's paper on f-ERM.
@LawlessOpt's paper on Fair Clustering.
Todo: Another post on DP, fairness, game theory, bandits papers.
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š¢ JOB OPPORTUNITY
2-year #Postdoc Position in #MathematicalOptimization and #MachineLearning at @CBS_ECON (@CBScph)
Come and work with us on #datadriven #decisionmaking for #sustainable urban logistics funded by EU !!!
For more details
cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-cbs/lediā¦
Connor Lawless retweeted
Congratulations to ORIE Professor Andrea Lodi on being chosen as one of just twelve 2023 INFORMS Fellows! @INFORMS
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Connor Lawless retweeted
We are launching our Graduate School Application Financial Aid Program (queerinai.com/grad-app-aid) for 2023-2024. Weāll give up to $750 per person to queer STEM scholars applying to graduate programs. Apply at form.jotform.com/23266853262ā¦. Donate to support at paypal.com/donate/?hosted_buā¦ 1/
ALT Grad App Program financial assistance and mentorship for navigating graduate school admissions. First deadline is november 1: bit.ly/grad-app23
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š¢ The Online Seminar Series #MachineLearning NeEDS #MathematicalOptimization, congreso.us.es/mlneedsmo/, is back on October 2, 16.30 CET!
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@needs_project activity, branding the role of #orms in #AI with the support of @EUROonline_News
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Urgent!!!
PhD studentship contract for project "MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION AND STATISTICS FOR EXPLAINABLE
AND FAIR MACHINE LEARNING" at @unisevilla
(Ref INV-PRE-2023-I-040 in tvirtual.us.es/teous-rest-apā¦)
Interested? Contact us asap!
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Thank you for your presentation at our Online Seminar Series Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization, congreso.us.es/mlneedsmo/!
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Well done with the pub!
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SEASON5 of the #MachineLearning NeEDS #MathematicalOptimization Online Seminar Series, congreso.us.es/mlneedsmo/, has ended!
We thank the 8ā£8ā£ speakers from 2ā£1ā£ countries that we have had since 2021 !
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Connor Lawless retweeted
We are organizing a workshop that will bring together female researchers doing doctoral studies in Turkey, Iran or the Netherlands.
Can you please help me share the announcement, program, and application page?
Date, place: 10-16 September 2023, Istanbul
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