Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 06/08/2026OK, I am back from holiday. I spent most of my time offline (hiking in Austria is great!) but also did quite a bit of reflection on academia and AI. I will have some things to say. One of my intensions is to be more active on social media and I will also start a blog. 060
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 23/06/2026For the summer issue of the EATCS Bulletin, it was my pleasure to talk to authors of the Decentralized Thoughts blog: Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak, Ling Ren, and Alin Tomescu. I really like their opinions on how blogs can do more than papers and the theory and practice of blockchains. 152
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 17/12/2025I enjoyed reading this. I agree that throughout the last 10 years or so, CS has become a lot more empirical. This also means that there is a lot of work for theoretical computer scientists out there. 030
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 30/10/2025The new EATCS Bulletin #147 is available! eatcs.org/images/bulle... In the TCS on the Web Column, I talked to the maintainers of the TCS Blog Aggregator: Nima Anari, Arnab Bhattacharyya and Gautam Kamath. It was a very fun interview! @gautamkamath.com @schmiste-ch.bsky.social 085
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 25/10/2025STOC'26 will provide an *optional* pre-submission feedback based on Gemini. The model is optimized for checking mathematical rigor. Looks interesting. They also post example outputs and comments on them. Announcement: acm-stoc.org/stoc2026/sto... Example reviews: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dwoodruf/st... 020
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 16/10/2025Such a strong growth in submissions over the past few years (probably because of LLMs?). 38% more than two years ago. Wow. An acceptance rate of less than 10% is really tough. Good luck to everyone who submitted! 000
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 15/10/2025I was just briefly scrolling over the latest ACM Career News newsletter and I find it quite funny that it contains a picture of the German Federal Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius. 110
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 30/06/2025Check out the latest edition of the EATCS Bulletin, featuring @timroughgarden.bsky.social on how he built one of the most successful TCS YouTube channels—with over 1 million views. The other articles are also very exciting. Have a look! www.eatcs.org/images/bulle... 031
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 11/03/2025To remove noise, one can use the approach of "Denser than the densest subgraph" by Tsourakakis, Bonchi, Gionis, Gullo, Tsiarli. They change the objective function from density |E[S]| / |S| to measure how clique-like the subgraph is: |E[S]| - (|S| choose 2). This gives much more coherent clusters. 000
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 11/03/2025Then the next clusters are a bit more noisy (arguably the first two are also noisy, but ok it's vanilla densest subgraph) also make some sense after eyeballing: Cluster 3: Middle East + India Cluster 4: Russia + countries in the vicinity Cluster 5: South America + Australia 100
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 11/03/2025Today I will be teaching densest subgraph in my course. So, I implemented the greedy peeling algorithm ("Charikar's algorithm") and ran it on some flight dataset from @netzschleuder.skewed.de. The first two clusters nicely correspond to clusters in (1) Europe+US and (2) China. 1122
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 17/02/2025The (soft) deadline for this position is on Friday. 055
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 04/12/2024The openness of Bluesky is great, and it is nice to see the creativity it encourages. blueskyroast.com/roast/stefan... 010
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 17/04/2024How do you make a theoretical computer scientist happy? By giving them a large whiteboard. 😍 010
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 11/04/2024Intriguing paper by Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan on arxiv today. They look justifying the effectiveness of LLMs theoretically. In a nutshell, they show that, even though *detecting* languages is difficult, *generating* from languages can be done asymptotically. (link below) 100
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 14/03/2024Very interesting talk today by Jingren Zhou on building large language models at Alibaba. @caimlTUwien @tu_wien 000
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 26/01/2024Today is my final day at KTH. It was a great time and I will definitely miss it. I am most thankful to Aris Gionis for all of his support during this time, the people in his group, and the colleagues in the TCS division at large. Now I am heading back to Vienna (more info soon). 030
Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 22/11/2023🚨🚨🚨 Very important iPadOS update for those of us living in Scandinavia. 010