Connor Lawless
@lawlessopt.bsky.social
Stanford MS&E Postdoc | Human-Centered AI & OR
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In our final session for the day, we're focused on a hot topic: machine learning and mixed integer programming. Connor Lawless will start the session and tells us how to use LLMs for cold-start cutting plane separator configuration.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
In our final session for the day, we're focused on a hot topic: machine learning and mixed integer programming. Connor Lawless will start the session and tells us how to use LLMs for cold-start cutting plane separator configuration.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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🔥 New workshop at @neuripsconf.bsky.social!
DiffCoALG bridges the gap between classic algorithms & differentiable learning.
Think: LLM reasoning, routing, SAT, MIP — neurally optimized.
📌 Submit by Aug 22! 🤖🧠
🔗 sites.google.com/view/diffcoa...
#NeurIPS2025
DiffCoALG bridges the gap between classic algorithms & differentiable learning.
Think: LLM reasoning, routing, SAT, MIP — neurally optimized.
📌 Submit by Aug 22! 🤖🧠
🔗 sites.google.com/view/diffcoa...
#NeurIPS2025
DiffCoALG@NeurIPS 2025
About this Workshop
Combinatorial algorithms are fundamental across a wide range of domains, owing to their ability to model optimization and decision-making tasks under complex constraints. These alg...
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August 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🔥 New workshop at @neuripsconf.bsky.social!
DiffCoALG bridges the gap between classic algorithms & differentiable learning.
Think: LLM reasoning, routing, SAT, MIP — neurally optimized.
📌 Submit by Aug 22! 🤖🧠
🔗 sites.google.com/view/diffcoa...
#NeurIPS2025
DiffCoALG bridges the gap between classic algorithms & differentiable learning.
Think: LLM reasoning, routing, SAT, MIP — neurally optimized.
📌 Submit by Aug 22! 🤖🧠
🔗 sites.google.com/view/diffcoa...
#NeurIPS2025
There's been a lot of work using LLMs to formulate MILPs, but how do we know that the formulations are correct?
Come chat with Haotian at poster W-515 to learn about our work on automatic equivalence checking for optimization models!
Come chat with Haotian at poster W-515 to learn about our work on automatic equivalence checking for optimization models!
July 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
There's been a lot of work using LLMs to formulate MILPs, but how do we know that the formulations are correct?
Come chat with Haotian at poster W-515 to learn about our work on automatic equivalence checking for optimization models!
Come chat with Haotian at poster W-515 to learn about our work on automatic equivalence checking for optimization models!
Excited to be chatting about our new paper "Understanding Fixed Predictions via Confined Regions" (joint work with @berkustun.bsky.social, Lily Weng, and Madeleine Udell) at #ICML2025!
🕐 Wed 16 Jul 4:30 p.m. PDT — 7 p.m. PDT
📍East Exhibition Hall A-B #E-1104
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2502.16380
🕐 Wed 16 Jul 4:30 p.m. PDT — 7 p.m. PDT
📍East Exhibition Hall A-B #E-1104
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2502.16380
Understanding Fixed Predictions via Confined Regions
Machine learning models can assign fixed predictions that preclude individuals from changing their outcome. Existing approaches to audit fixed predictions do so on a pointwise basis, which requires ac...
arxiv.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Excited to be chatting about our new paper "Understanding Fixed Predictions via Confined Regions" (joint work with @berkustun.bsky.social, Lily Weng, and Madeleine Udell) at #ICML2025!
🕐 Wed 16 Jul 4:30 p.m. PDT — 7 p.m. PDT
📍East Exhibition Hall A-B #E-1104
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2502.16380
🕐 Wed 16 Jul 4:30 p.m. PDT — 7 p.m. PDT
📍East Exhibition Hall A-B #E-1104
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2502.16380
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Our ✨spotlight paper✨ "Primal-Dual Neural Algorithmic Reasoning" is coming to #ICML2025!
We bring Neural Algorithmic Reasoning (NAR) to the NP-hard frontier 💥
🗓 Poster session: Tuesday 11:00–13:30
📍 East Exhibition Hall A-B, # E-3003
🔗 openreview.net/pdf?id=iBpkz...
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We bring Neural Algorithmic Reasoning (NAR) to the NP-hard frontier 💥
🗓 Poster session: Tuesday 11:00–13:30
📍 East Exhibition Hall A-B, # E-3003
🔗 openreview.net/pdf?id=iBpkz...
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July 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Our ✨spotlight paper✨ "Primal-Dual Neural Algorithmic Reasoning" is coming to #ICML2025!
We bring Neural Algorithmic Reasoning (NAR) to the NP-hard frontier 💥
🗓 Poster session: Tuesday 11:00–13:30
📍 East Exhibition Hall A-B, # E-3003
🔗 openreview.net/pdf?id=iBpkz...
🧵
We bring Neural Algorithmic Reasoning (NAR) to the NP-hard frontier 💥
🗓 Poster session: Tuesday 11:00–13:30
📍 East Exhibition Hall A-B, # E-3003
🔗 openreview.net/pdf?id=iBpkz...
🧵
Excited to be chatting about our ACM TIIS paper at IUI today:
"I Want it That Way": Enabling Interactive Decision Support via Large Language Models and Constraint Programming
🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2312.06908
"I Want it That Way": Enabling Interactive Decision Support via Large Language Models and Constraint Programming
🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2312.06908
"I Want It That Way": Enabling Interactive Decision Support Using Large Language Models and Constraint Programming
A critical factor in the success of decision support systems is the accurate modeling of user preferences. Psychology research has demonstrated that users often develop their preferences during the el...
arxiv.org
March 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Excited to be chatting about our ACM TIIS paper at IUI today:
"I Want it That Way": Enabling Interactive Decision Support via Large Language Models and Constraint Programming
🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2312.06908
"I Want it That Way": Enabling Interactive Decision Support via Large Language Models and Constraint Programming
🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2312.06908
Super excited about this new work with Yingxi Li, Anders Wikun, @ellen-v.bsky.social, and Madeleine Udell forthcoming at CPAIOR2025:
LLMs for Cold-Start Cutting Plane Separator Configuration
🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12038
LLMs for Cold-Start Cutting Plane Separator Configuration
🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12038
LLMs for Cold-Start Cutting Plane Separator Configuration
Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) solvers ship with a staggering number of parameters that are challenging to select a priori for all but expert optimization users, but can have an outsized impa...
arxiv.org
March 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Super excited about this new work with Yingxi Li, Anders Wikun, @ellen-v.bsky.social, and Madeleine Udell forthcoming at CPAIOR2025:
LLMs for Cold-Start Cutting Plane Separator Configuration
🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12038
LLMs for Cold-Start Cutting Plane Separator Configuration
🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12038
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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
www.technologyreview.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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"Not a step back"
Possibly --- even a step _forward_?
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Possibly --- even a step _forward_?
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February 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"Not a step back"
Possibly --- even a step _forward_?
/s
Possibly --- even a step _forward_?
/s
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Summer 2025 schools on algorithms, machine learning, mathematics, optimization, and other relevant topics in operations research #orms
Summer 2025 schools on algorithms, machine learning, mathematics, optimization, and other relevant topics in operations research
After a 5-year hiatus and finding out that this was helpful to many people, I am reviving the list of schools. The purpose of organizing this is to help graduate students find a summer school to ga…
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February 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Summer 2025 schools on algorithms, machine learning, mathematics, optimization, and other relevant topics in operations research #orms
Have you developed and/or implemented an optimization model to solve a real-world use case? We want to hear from you! We're extending our study on workflows in optimization modelling for a couple last interviews: tinyurl.com/3ejdr7su
February 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Have you developed and/or implemented an optimization model to solve a real-world use case? We want to hear from you! We're extending our study on workflows in optimization modelling for a couple last interviews: tinyurl.com/3ejdr7su
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Yesterday, I gave a @gurobioptimization.bsky.social webinar where I explored how to make #AI and #ML both #transparent and #fair without compromising on #accuracy. The recording of the talk is at www.brighttalk.com/webcast/1918.... Happy to hear about your feedback!
On a (Short) Optimization Tour Through Transparent and Fair ML with Prof. Dolores Morales
There is a common consensus that state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are powerful in terms of their accuracy, but they are also perceived as opaque not b...
www.brighttalk.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Yesterday, I gave a @gurobioptimization.bsky.social webinar where I explored how to make #AI and #ML both #transparent and #fair without compromising on #accuracy. The recording of the talk is at www.brighttalk.com/webcast/1918.... Happy to hear about your feedback!
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My department is looking for a postdoc. We have great (and nice!) folks working on theory and applications in data science, machine learning, mathematical optimization, and transportation. The university also has a lot going on in heathcare. See more below:
jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...
jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...
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January 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My department is looking for a postdoc. We have great (and nice!) folks working on theory and applications in data science, machine learning, mathematical optimization, and transportation. The university also has a lot going on in heathcare. See more below:
jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...
jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...