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Christoph Spiegel

5 accepted papers

2026

Neural Sum-of-Squares: Certifying the Nonnegativity of Polynomials with Transformers

ICLR 2026poster

Certifying nonnegativity of polynomials is a well-known NP-hard problem with direct applications spanning non-convex optimization, control, robotics, and beyond. A sufficient condition for nonnegativity is the Sum-of-Squares property, i.e., it can be written as a sum of squares of other polynomials.…

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2025

Neural Discovery in Mathematics: Do Machines Dream of Colored Planes?

ICML 2025oral

We demonstrate how neural networks can drive mathematical discovery through a case study of the Hadwiger-Nelson problem, a long-standing open problem at the intersection of discrete geometry and extremal combinatorics that is concerned with coloring the plane while avoiding monochromatic unit-distan…

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2024

Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning via Model Averaging

ICLR 2024poster

Neural networks can be significantly compressed by pruning, yielding sparse models with reduced storage and computational demands while preserving predictive performance. Model soups (Wortsman et al., 2022) enhance generalization and out-of-distribution (OOD) performance by averaging the parameters…

2023

Fully Computer-Assisted Proofs in Extremal Combinatorics

AAAI 2023technical

We present a fully computer-assisted proof system for solving a particular family of problems in Extremal Combinatorics. Existing techniques using Flag Algebras have proven powerful in the past, but have so far lacked a computational counterpart to derive matching constructive bounds. We demonstrate…

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