3 papers
cs.AI2026
A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models
Shubhra Mishra, Yuka Machino, Gabriel Poesia +9
The evolution of mathematics is shaped importantly by interestingness: researchers choose which problems to pursue, and students choose which problems to engage with, based on expe…
cs.CL2025
Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication
Yuka Machino, Matthias Hofer, Max Siegel +2
Misunderstandings in cross-cultural communication often arise from subtle differences in interpretation, but it is unclear whether these differences arise from the literal meanings…
cs.DC2024
Near-Optimal Fault Tolerance for Efficient Batch Matrix Multiplication via an Additive Combinatorics Lens
Keren Censor-Hillel, Yuka Machino, Pedro Soto
Fault tolerance is a major concern in distributed computational settings. In the classic master-worker setting, a server (the master) needs to perform some heavy computation which…