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Rohan Anil, former DeepMind distinguished engineer, proposes using LLMs to translate Yurii Nesterov's math optimization papers into modern deep learning notation

The translated papers would feature modern notation and visual diagrams.

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rohan anil@_arohan_#86inTech

Use Claude or Codex to rewrite Yurii Nesterov’s papers in notations, diagrams that current practitioners of deep learning understands.

I think this by itself may lift optimization education for frontier model developers.

10:00 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 9.4K Views
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Positive users agree notations are a fair bottleneck in optimization theory and support using AI to rewrite Nesterov papers, while negative users report safety filters blocking the effort.

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Ryan Lopopolo@_lopopolo

@_arohan_ Probably the same treatment for OR on the applied side. Take the old papers on queues, scheduling, routing, inventory, allocation, etc and rewrite them in terms of agents, GPUs, tokens, evals, rollouts, traces, PRs, and human review. AI productivity is just optimization.

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rohan anil@_arohan_

Use Claude or Codex to rewrite Yurii Nesterov’s papers in notations, diagrams that current practitioners of deep learning understands.

I think this by itself may lift optimization education for frontier model developers.

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Rugbist@rugbist_

@_arohan_ wait so notations are the bottleneck for getting practioners into optim theory? thats actually a fair point

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Shreshth Saini@shreshthsaini

@_arohan_ triggered a safety filter on Fabel. No can do. 🥶

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Blissy@BlissyOnX

@_arohan_ (im underwater)

"a weird quantum shape or just a drunk scribble"

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Invincible@InvincibleEdge

@_arohan_ making theory digestible for the applied crowd is usually where the bottleneck lives

curious which paper u d start with

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