Martin Takac
@TakacMartin
We are #hiring for MBZUAI Postdoctoral Opening—Graph AI for Materials & Catalysis at MBZUAI. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. We are attending International Conference on Machine Learning 2025 if you would like to meet! - via #Whova event app

🔧 Comp-opt friends: show us your solver magic! #ICOMP2025 lands in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪. Abstracts due Aug 1, papers Aug 15 (AoE). Expect killer talks + sunny networking. Details/CFP ⬇️ lnkd.in/gEapDXwB #CallForPapers #Optimization #ML
🚀 Join @MBZUAI (Abu Dhabi) to advance efficient & distributed ML! 🔹 Postdoctoral Associate — apply.interfolio.com/170202 🔹 Visiting Student — apply.interfolio.com/170203 Apply now and help shape the future of #MachineLearning. #AI #Postdoc #PhD #Careers
🚀 Postdoc @MBZUAI: drive #LLM reasoning for energy under my & S. Lahlou. PhD (NLP/LLM), strong publications & PyTorch/TensorFlow. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/169102. Please RT/share w/ top candidates! #MBZUAI #LLM #Postdoc #ML #NLP #AIResearch #IndustryCollaboration #EnergyAI
🚀 Great work by my students and collaborators! Pushing routing algorithms closer to real-world deployment with SVRPBench — worth a look for anyone in ML/OR/logistics. linkedin.com/posts/zangir-i… #mbzuai #AI #VehicleRouting
I’m pleased to invite you to visit our poster at #ICLR2025! My co-author Artem Agafonov will present our #OPTAMI paper on global superlinear convergence of second-order methods and a PyTorch library for high-order methods. 📌Hall 3 + Hall 2B #563 📅Thu 24 Apr 10:00
Big news!📢 We've launched our first undergraduate program: Bachelor of Science in AI. This multi-disciplinary program combines core AI expertise with entrepreneurship and real-world industry experience—empowering our students to #BuildWhatsNext. Applications for Fall 2025 are…
Excited to share what I have been working since a year! The introduction of a new BSc degree in AI at @mbzuai (ranked 10 worldwide in the main fields of AI on CSRankings) with two tracks, one in Engineering and one in Business. We are recruiting top students from all over the…
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, visited MBZUAI today. During the visit, His Highness affirmed that the university contributes to advancing the UAE's vision by investing in artificial intelligence and advanced technology, preparing national…
📢 Thrilled to share our latest research on large language models (LLMs)! 🚀🎉 Did you know that language models generally struggle with something as simple as recalling "the line before"? This limitation, known as the reversal curse, highlights how LLMs often fail to predict…
My book is (at last) out, just in time for Christmas! A blog post to celebrate and present it: francisbach.com/my-book-is-out/
This is joint work with Artem Agafonov, Petr Ostroukhov (@postrou12), Roman Mozhaev, Konstantin Yakovlev, Eduard Gorbunov (@ed_gorbunov), Martin Takac (@TakacMartin), and Alexander Gasnikov Info: neurips.cc/virtual/2024/p… Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=uvFDaeF…
Not to be missed! Check out Sayantan's recent work on a Scale-Invariant Version of Adagrad! He will present this at NeurIPS this week: Wed 11 Dec 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. PST He’s also on the lookout for exciting opportunities starting next summer!
(1/4) Excited to share our NeurIPS 2024 paper: Remove that Square Root: A New Efficient Scale-Invariant Version of AdaGrad 🚀 🤝work with @dr_nazya @NicLoizou @sam_hrvth @TakacMartin @ed_gorbunov 📍Poster: West Ballroom A-D #6103 📅 Wed 11 Dec 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. PST
🌟 We’re at NeurIPS! 🌟 Our faculty and students are thrilled to showcase over 30 groundbreaking papers at NeurIPS this year! Here are highlights from just four exciting contributions: 1️⃣ Causal Discovery in the Presence of Deterministic Relations: Traditional causal…
✅ (Spotlight🥳) Exploring Jacobian Inexactness in Second-Order Methods for Variational Inequalities: Lower Bounds, Optimal Algorithms, and Quasi-Newton Approximations - joint work with Artem Agafonov, Petr Ostroukhov (@postrou12), Roman Mozhaev, Konstantin Yakovlev, Martin Takac…
✅Remove that Square Root: A New Efficient Scale-Invariant Version of AdaGrad - joint work with Sayantan Choudhury (@schoudh8), Nazarii Tupitsa, Nicolas Loizou (@NicLoizou), Samuel Horváth (@sam_hrvth), Martin Takac (@TakacMartin) When: Wednesday (11 Dec), 11am - 2pm PST (Poster…