Michigan awards Kuck Dissertation Prize for thesis on inference-time compute reasoning
hyunw_kim · x · 2026-11-11
Muhammad Khalifa, a recent University of Michigan CSE PhD alum advised by Lu Wang and Honglak Lee, won the 2026 David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize for the most impactful CSE thesis. His dissertation, "Reasoning Under Inference-Time Compute," studies how language models can improve answers by performing additional computation at inference time rather than relying solely on training, aiming to make AI reasoning more efficient, verifiable, and failure-resistant.
More from Research
- DNAForge & MTC Berkeley to host AI × Biology Hackathon in Berkeley on Nov 14 — julia_kiseleva · 2026-11-11
- RoboScript hits 83.4% success on RoboTwin 2.0 with one demo per task, beating trained policies by 20+ points — H-EmbodVis · 2026-11-11
- Alibaba's PhysOPSD uses executable code as privileged context to make video generation physically plausible — AlibabaTongyiLab · 2026-11-11
- mayfer: clean low-rank latents may be the key to continuous online learning — mayfer · 2026-11-11
- PhD student finds lost Mayan city with 6,000+ buildings in old LiDAR dataset — bilawalsidhu · 2026-11-11
- Scaling intelligence: pattern-discovery problems all benefit from test-time scaling — QuanquanGu · 2026-11-11