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1 points·by nsomani·2 mesi fa·0 comments

Autoformalization and the Future of Math Research

neelsomaniblog.com
2 points·by nsomani·5 mesi fa·0 comments

Show HN: GPT-Erdos – the results of GPT 5.2 Pro on the Erdos problems

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1 points·by nsomani·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Show HN: A website that auctions itself daily

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43 points·by nsomani·6 mesi fa·19 comments

Show HN: Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence

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16 points·by nsomani·6 mesi fa·2 comments

The endgame for mechanistic interpretability is formal methods

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2 points·by nsomani·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Show HN: Do Models Represent Epistemic Stance?

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3 points·by nsomani·7 mesi fa·0 comments

Intro to Routing: Mixture-of-Experts and Expert Choice

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1 points·by nsomani·8 mesi fa·0 comments

Show HN: KV Marketplace – share LLM attention caches across GPUs like memcached

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2 points·by nsomani·8 mesi fa·1 comments

A Minimal Route to Transformer Attention

neelsomaniblog.com
2 points·by nsomani·9 mesi fa·0 comments

Show HN: Cuq – Formal Verification of Rust GPU Kernels

github.com
94 points·by nsomani·9 mesi fa·63 comments

Killing the GIL: How to Use Python 3.14's Free-Threading Upgrade

neelsomaniblog.com
2 points·by nsomani·9 mesi fa·0 comments

Is GRPO Broken?

neelsomaniblog.com
2 points·by nsomani·9 mesi fa·0 comments

Intro to RL: Off-Policy Methods

neelsomaniblog.com
2 points·by nsomani·9 mesi fa·0 comments

What You Didn't Learn in Berkeley CS 188: Intro to RL

neelsomaniblog.com
2 points·by nsomani·9 mesi fa·0 comments

Show HN: Web2mcp – Auto-generate an MCP for any web app

github.com
2 points·by nsomani·11 mesi fa·1 comments

Show HN: I built a website to summarize Tech Twitter each day

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11 points·by nsomani·anno scorso·2 comments

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nsomani
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Appreciate that. I didn't realize how derivative this was when I built it! I was just trying to build something cool with the Codex SDK.
nsomani
·6 mesi fa·discuss
They cannot edit the iFrame itself. The user is allowed to edit the contents within the iFrame.
nsomani
·6 mesi fa·discuss
The Codex agent is only given tools to edit the single HTML file that displays on the homepage. The page is on a separate domain, so there's no cookie sharing, and the iFrame is in a sandbox. That said, the biggest risk is social engineering attacks.
nsomani
·6 mesi fa·discuss
There are two examples provided - quote matching and bracket closing.
nsomani
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Hi all - this is a small research prototype I built to explore cross-GPU reuse of transformer attention states.

When inference engines like vLLM implement prefix/KV caching, it's local to each replica. LMCache recently generalized this idea to multi-tier storage.

KV Marketplace focuses narrowly on the GPU-to-GPU fast path: peer-to-peer prefix reuse over RDMA or NVLink. Each process exports completed prefix KV tensors (key/value attention states) into a registry keyed by a hash of the input tokens and model version. Other processes with the same prefix can import those tensors directly from a peer GPU, bypassing host memory and avoiding redundant prefill compute.

Under optimistic conditions (perfect prefix importing), the prototype shows about a 15% reduction in latency and throughput gains without heavy tuning. The code is intentionally minimal (no distributed registry, eviction, or CPU/disk tiers yet) but it's a prototype of "memcached for attention."

I thought others exploring distributed LLM inference, caching, or RDMA transports might find the repo useful or interesting.
nsomani
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Oh really? I can't find anything about the memory model online. I'm not sure what's the best way to do this, but if there's a way for us to get in contact, I'd be interested in adjusting the project so it's developed in the most ergonomic way possible. I'm chatting with a couple of universities and I might issue a research grant for this project to be further fleshed out, so would be keen to hear your insights prior to kicking this off. My email is neel[at]berkeley.edu.
nsomani
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I think I've just spent too much time reading the word "CUDA" that I read "cu" as "koo", lol.
nsomani
·9 mesi fa·discuss
That instinct is right. cuTile would be easier to parse but harder to reason about formally.
nsomani
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Oh wow, honestly this caught me off guard - I've been pronouncing it "kook" in my head the whole time.
nsomani
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Hi all, this is a small research prototype I built that connects Rust's MIR (Mid-level IR) to Coq, the proof assistant used for formal verification.

cuq takes the MIR dump of a Rust CUDA kernel and translates it into a minimal Coq semantics that emits memory events, which are then lined up with the PTX memory model formalized by Lustig et al., ASPLOS 2019.

Right now it supports:

* a simple saxpy kernel (no atomics)

* an atomic flag kernel using acquire/release semantics

* a "negative" kernel that fails type/order checking

The goal isn't a full verified compiler yet. It's a first step toward formally checking the safety of GPU kernels written in Rust (e.g. correct use of atomics, barriers, and memory scopes).

Happy to hear thoughts from folks working in Rust verification, GPU compilers, or Coq tooling.
nsomani
·11 mesi fa·discuss
I agree with you. I agree with OP in the following sentences:

>We have now landed on our final strategy: start by figuring out the number of possible secret codes n. For each guess, calculate the number n_i' of codes that will still be viable if the Code Master gives response i in return. Do this for all possible responses.

But then I don't agree with:

>Finally, calculate the entropy of each guess; pick the one with the highest.

Why wouldn't we just pick argmin_{guess} sum{i in possible responses}{Pr[i] * n'_i} = sum{i in possible responses}{n'_i/n * n'_i} = sum{i in possible responses}{n'_i^2}? This is the guess that minimizes the expected size of the resulting solution space.
nsomani
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Hey friends, I was originally interested in a slightly adjacent space related to traversing a complex tree of actions in a web app: https://x.com/paulg/status/1897338753590653000?s=46

I open-sourced this repo to (1) identify all of the clickable components in a web app using `computer-use-preview`, (2) traverse the tree of actions using Browserbase/Stagehand, then (3) generate a reasonable MCP interface using GPT-5: https://github.com/neelsomani/web2mcp

Here's an example of it running on a demo app: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dy5lllRKkc7_usiiwsdOEMQTbdq...

Less trivial example where it generates a video using Hedra Character 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JeFidakOB8NYyB7LfrgPum40Pce...

You just need to set your login credentials in the .env file as specified in the README. Let me know if you have any questions - happy to share reasoning on the design!