hello, i'm

Nikita Karagodin

PhD researcher at MIT

precision
recall

I think about why attention works — what makes transformers learn, and what that tells us about learning itself. I work with Yury Polyanskiy, and I grew up on math olympiads, so watching AI learn to reason feels almost personal.

currently thinking about

geometry of deep representations

Recent

Joining Citadel Securities Deep Learning team Mar 15
life update
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning Mar 15
Normalization in Attention Dynamics Dec 1
paper
Clustering in Causal Attention Masking Dec 1
paper
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Санкт-Петербург

A city of white nights, bridges rising over the Neva, and the quiet beauty that shaped a part of who I am.