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Kristin E. Lauter

5 accepted papers

2026

HATSolver: Learning Gröbner Bases with Hierarchical Attention Transformers

ICLR 2026oral

At NeurIPS 2024, Kera (2311.12904) introduced the use of transformers for computing Groebner bases, a central object in computer algebra with numerous practical applications. In this paper, we improve this approach by applying Hierarchical Attention Transformers (HATs) to solve systems of multivaria…

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2025

Making Hard Problems Easier with Custom Data Distributions and Loss Regularization: A Case Study in Modular Arithmetic

ICML 2025poster

Recent work showed that ML-based attacks on Learning with Errors (LWE), a hard problem used in post-quantum cryptography, outperform classical algebraic attacks in certain settings. Although promising, ML attacks struggle to scale to more complex LWE settings. Prior work connected this issue to the…

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2025

Position: Formal Mathematical Reasoning—A New Frontier in AI

ICML 2025spotlight

AI for Mathematics (AI4Math) is intellectually intriguing and is crucial for AI-driven system design and verification. Extensive efforts on AI4Math have mirrored techniques in NLP, in particular, training large language models on carefully curated math datasets in text form. As a complementary yet l…

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2025

TAPAS: Datasets for Learning the Learning with Errors Problem

NeurIPS 2025poster

AI-powered attacks on Learning with Errors (LWE)—an important hard math problem in post-quantum cryptography—rival or outperform "classical" attacks on LWE under certain parameter settings. Despite the promise of this approach, a dearth of accessible data limits AI practitioners' ability to study an…

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2023

SALSA VERDE: a machine learning attack on LWE with sparse small secrets

NeurIPS 2023poster

Learning with Errors (LWE) is a hard math problem used in post-quantum cryptography. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) schemes rely on the hardness of the LWE problem for their security, and two LWE-based cryptosystems were recently standardized by NIST for digital signatures and key exchange (KEM). Thus…

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