Boston Computation Club
Boston Computation Club
Max von Hippel
2/17/26: Approximately Aligned Decoding with Daniel Melcer
48 minutes Posted Feb 18, 2026 at 3:47 am.
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Daniel Melcer is a PhD student at Northeastern University, where he researches formal methods, reinforcement learning, and large language models, among other things. Daniel also has the most colorful hair in the business (bright red for this talk, other colors for other occasions). Today he joined us to talk about some really exciting work he completed at Amazon, and to expand on his general vision of where constrained inference problems are heading in the future.