Lukas F. Münzel

Hi there!

I want to have as much positive impact as I can.

Axioms:

We will with high probability achieve AGI ¹ in my lifetime
Scientific progress allows us to enormously improve people’s lives

Corollary:

We should use AGI to massively accelerate research while ensuring that the gains we obtain from that for good. On a more personal note, this will also be incredibly cool

Also I really love meeting new interesting people! Thus, if anything on this website seems interesting to you, you are more than welcome to write me a mail and we can gladly go for lunch or a coffee.

Cheers,

Lukas

PS: Here some of the questions I was wondering about last year.

Short summary of my CV:

Joined Mirendil
Finished my math undergrad at ETH Zurich
Before that had fun doing olympiads (informatics and a bit of physics & bio). I can highly recommend RSI

a system that can completely autonomously do any task John von Neumann could complete given a blackboard, a computer, and ten years ↩

some of my very cool friends

Albert & HuxleyJosiaLeoRaphael

some of my work

Randomized Linear Algebra with Sparse Sketching Matrices

Lukas Münzel

Mar 2026

PDF
Lorien - An app to prevent you from doomscrolling

Lukas Münzel

Jan 2026

View
John von Neumann Archive

Lukas Münzel

Oct 2025

View
Report on my exchange semester at UC Berkeley

Lukas Münzel

Sep 2025

PDF (English) PDF (German)
A small observation on Schulmann’s KL divergence estimator

Lukas Münzel

May 2025

View
Show stroke order and component meaning of Chinese characters on Anki

Lukas Münzel

Dec 2024

View
Getting startETH - An opinionated guide on life and studies at ETH

Lukas Münzel

Sep 2024

View
Fast monotonically integrated large eddy simulation solver: validation of a new scalable tool to study and optimize indoor ventilation

N.M. Leuenberger, R. Yang, L. Münzel, R. Verzicco, D. Lohse, and 2 more authors

Flow, Sep 2024

PDF
Radiograph Automata - A novel model of computation

Lukas Münzel

Jul 2023

PDF

To cuckold and to be cuckolded - An essay on parallels between Shakespeare’s Othello and Greek mythology

Lukas Münzel

Nov 2021

Bib PDF

@article{paralells_othello_odyssey,
  title = {To cuckold and to be cuckolded - An essay on parallels between Shakespeare's Othello and Greek mythology},
  author = {Münzel, Lukas},
  year = {2021},
  month = nov,
}

The Influence of the Orthogonality of Feature Functions on Artificial Neural Networks

Lukas Münzel

Oct 2021

Abs PDF (English) PDF (German) Presentation recording

Conventional methods for adjusting the weights of artificial neural networks only consider the output layer when calculating the loss. Our method also takes into account infor-mation from the functions generating the outputs of the neurons in the second to last layer,which are called feature functions. Specifically, we measure how orthogonal the feature functions are using a covariance measure. We incorporate a term in the loss to explicitly rewardorthogonal feature functions. We were then able to generate nearly orthogonal feature functions without compromising on accuracy. Due to the convenient mathematical properties oforthogonal feature functions, we will in a future next step be able to find the optimal choiceof weights between the second to last and the output layer with low computational cost.