Michael Carbin
Associate Professor
Leads the Programming Systems Group, studying language-driven systems under uncertainty, including neural networks, approximate computing, and the lottery ticket hypothesis.
Michael Carbin's lab at MIT works on probabilistic & causal inference. 12 papers since 2023, 12 at top venues, mostly PACMPL and ICLR. 7 alumni, most often to Google and Reservoir Labs. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 100%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 7
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 3
- 5 papers2024 · T1 5
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: PACMPL, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Probabilistic & causal inference1 paper
- programming1 paper
- approximate computing0 papers
- approximate0 papers
- studying0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20262 papers
20253 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)FreshStack: Building Realistic Benchmarks for Evaluating Retrieval on Technical Documents (opens in a new tab)
- PACMPL (T1)Inference Plans for Hybrid Particle Filtering (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Learning to Keep a Promise: Scaling Language Model Decoding Parallelism with Learned Asynchronous Decoding (opens in a new tab)
20245 papers
- PACMPL (T1)Distributions for Compositionally Differentiating Parametric Discontinuities (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Learning to Compile Programs to Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)
- PACMPL (T1)Quantum Control Machine: The Limits of Control Flow in Quantum Programming (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)The Cost of Scaling Down Large Language Models: Reducing Model Size Affects Memory before In-context Learning (opens in a new tab)
- PACMPL (T1)The T-Complexity Costs of Error Correction for Control Flow in Quantum Computation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went7 listed, 60% to industry
Industry 3Academia 2
Most often to
- Reservoir Labs
- Waymo
Also to
- Cornell University
- University of Washington
Apply to MITFall 2027
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