Alek Westover
I'm an undergraduate at MIT studying Math+CS.
I've done research in data structures, online algorithms, and algorithmic graph theory.
Recently, I've been thinking about AI alignment.
Alek's CV
Email: alekw at mit dot edu
Blog
I keep a blog here. Roughly speaking, my posts fall into the falling categories:
- Technical notes (Math/TCS/ML/Alignment).
- Life Optimization.
- Philosophy.
Publications
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"Listing 6-Cycles in Sparse Graphs"
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Alek Westover
To appear in ITCS'25. -
"The Diamond Test: A Novel Direct Sum / Affinity Test"
Alek Westover, Edward Yu, Kai Zheng
To appear in ITCS'25. -
"When to Give Up on a Parallel Implementation"
Nathan S. Sheffield, Alek Westover
To appear in ITCS'25. -
"Interrater Reliability Estimation via Maximum Likelihood for Gwet’s Chance Agreement Model."
Westover, Alek M., Tara M. Westover, and M. Brandon Westover.
Open Journal of Statistics 14.5 (2024): 481-491. -
“A Nearly Quadratic Improvement for Memory Reallocation” (SPAA'24) (Slides)
Martin Farach-Colton, William Kuszmaul, Nathan Sheffield, and Alek Westover -
“Scheduling Jobs with Work-Inefficient Parallel Solutions” (SPAA'24) (Slides)
William Kuszmaul and Alek Westover -
“Complexity of Multiple-Hamiltonicity in Graphs of Bounded Degree”
Brian Liu, Nathan S. Sheffield, Alek Westover -
“On the Relationship Between Several Variants of the Linear Hashing Conjecture”
Alek Westover -
“The Variable-Processor Cup Game” (ITCS'21) (Slides)
William Kuszmaul and Alek Westover -
“Cache-Efficient Parallel-Partition Algorithms using Exclusive-Read-and-Write Memory” (SPAA'20) (Animation) (GitHub)
William Kuszmaul and Alek Westover