Dimitris Papailiopoulos (@DimitrisPapail)

Last week, GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable appear to have settled an open theoretical question in wireless communications that was intensely studied between 2000 till the 2010s and that I briefly worked on as an anxious first-year PhD student. The answer finally arrived, perhaps because I was one of the la...

Is AIME the right benchmark for reasoning in LLMs? OpenAI and DeepSeek have effectively used AIME to demonstrate a key point about test-time compute: accuracy improves with increased inference compute (more output tokens), and both trend upward with more rounds of reinforcement learning. AIME has ...