Reuben Narad

Updates

2026JuneI'm joining IFM as an LLM Pretraining Research Intern! Scaling laws, Optimizers, Dynamics, oh my!
2026Feb.New preprint: Beyond Solving: Prescriptive Probing for Neural Routing Solvers.
2025Nov.Presenting our work on SAEs for neural TSP solvers at the NeurIPS ML×OR workshop.
2025Sept.Greg Brockman tweeted about my web search feature :)
2025Aug.Summer part 2: Helping build Codex CLI at OpenAI.
2025JuneSummer part 1: Doing an Applied Scientist Internship at Amazon, on the Fulfillment By Amazon Science team.
2024JulyI'm starting my PhD! Wish me luck.

Beyond Solving: Prescriptive Probing for Neural Routing Solvers (2026, preprint)

Reuben Narad, Leonard Boussioux, Michael Wagner
Mechanistic Interpretability for Neural TSP Solvers (NeurIPS 2025 ML×OR workshop)

Reuben Narad, Leonard Boussioux, Michael Wagner
Which LLMs Get the Joke? Probing Non-STEM Reasoning Abilities with HumorBench (2025, preprint)

Reuben Narad, Jifan Zhang, Jiayi Chen, Siddharth Suresh, Lalit K. Jain, Robert D. Nowak, Bob Mankoff
Bridging the Creativity Understanding Gap: Small-Scale Human Alignment Enables Expert-Level Humor Ranking in LLMs (EMNLP 2025)

Kuan Lok Zhou, Jiayi Chen, Siddharth Suresh, Reuben Narad, Timothy T. Rogers, Lalit K. Jain, Robert D. Nowak, Bob Mankoff, Jifan Zhang
Delivering Locally Sourced Nutritious Food to Indian Households (2024, under review at Journal of Operations Management)

S. Das, C. Mejia Argueta, T. Sadalla Collese, Reuben Narad