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Lester Mackey

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Lester Mackey

@LesterMackey

Machine learning researcher @MSFTResearch (@MSRNE); adjunct professor @Stanford

Joined November 2010

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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Feb 11
@tobias_schrdr and I are excited to share WildCat: Near-Linear Attention in Theory and Practice arxiv.org/abs/2602.10056 By attending over a spectrally-accurate optimally-weighted coreset, WildCat approximates exact attention with super-polynomial error decay in near-linear time
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Nov 3, 2023
If you're a PhD student interested in interning with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Microsoft Research New England (@MSRNE, @MSFTResearch) this summer, please apply here jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/shar…
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Oct 20, 2025
If you're a PhD student interested in interning with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Microsoft Research New England (@MSRNE, @MSFTResearch) this summer, please apply here jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… (If you'd like to work with me, please include my name in your cover letter!)
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Oct 30, 2024
If you're a PhD student interested in interning with me or one of my amazing colleagues at Microsoft Research New England (@MSRNE, @MSFTResearch) this summer, please apply here jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Aug 15, 2024
I just want to return my package to Whole Foods 😭
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Oct 21, 2022
If you're a PhD student interested in interning with me or one of my amazing colleagues at MSR New England this summer, please apply here careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1483…
Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Oct 15, 2021
If you're a PhD student interested in interning with me or one of my amazing colleagues at MSR New England this summer, please apply here careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1184…
Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Feb 12, 2025
Why permute when you can cheaply permute?
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Dec 8, 2022
Introducing CheatGPT
Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Dec 14, 2023
If you’d like to join Microsoft Research New England as a researcher in AI / ML / statistics, please apply here: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… @MSFTResearch @MSRNE
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Feb 18, 2025
New guarantees for approximating attention, accelerating SGD, and testing sample quality in near-linear time
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Nov 23, 2022
Call for Machine Learning, AI, & Statistics Researchers at Microsoft Research New England @MSRNE : careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1494…
Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Dec 29, 2023
Interested in helping to organize @NeurIPSConf 2024? Let us know here:
docs.google.com
NeurIPS 2024 Organizer Nomination
Please use this form to nominate yourself as an organizer (a.k.a. chair) for the next NeurIPS conference in Dec 2024. Ideal organizers have attended NeurIPS in the past, have organized similar events...
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Lester Mackey
@LesterMackey
Nov 16, 2021
If you're a recent or graduating PhD student interested in postdocing with the ML / stats team at MSR New England, please apply here aka.ms/ml-postdoc-msr…