Mert Pilanci

Active Learning of Deep Neural Networks via Gradient-Free Cutting Planes ICML 2025 Disentangling Speaker and Content in Pre-trained Speech Models with Latent Diffusion for Robust Speaker Verification Interspeech 2025 Exploring The Loss Landscape Of Regularized Neural Networks Via Convex Duality ICLR 2025 Geometric Algebra Planes: Convex Implicit Neural Volumes ICML 2025 Newton Meets Marchenko-Pastur: Massively Parallel Second-Order Optimization with Hessian Sketching and Debiasing ICLR 2025 Adaptive Sampling for Efficient Softmax Approximation NeurIPS 2024 Compressing Large Language Models using Low Rank and Low Precision Decomposition NeurIPS 2024 Convex Relaxations of ReLU Neural Networks Approximate Global Optima in Polynomial Time ICML 2024 CRONOS: Enhancing Deep Learning with Scalable GPU Accelerated Convex Neural Networks NeurIPS 2024 Riemannian Preconditioned LoRA for Fine-Tuning Foundation Models ICML 2024 Scaling Convex Neural Networks with Burer-Monteiro Factorization ICLR 2024 Spectral Adapter: Fine-Tuning in Spectral Space NeurIPS 2024 Fixing the NTK: From Neural Network Linearizations to Exact Convex Programs NeurIPS 2023 Globally Optimal Training of Neural Networks with Threshold Activation Functions ICLR 2023 Matrix Compression via Randomized Low Rank and Low Precision Factorization NeurIPS 2023 Optimal Sets and Solution Paths of ReLU Networks ICML 2023 Optimal Shrinkage for Distributed Second-Order Optimization ICML 2023 Parallel Deep Neural Networks Have Zero Duality Gap ICLR 2023 Path Regularization: A Convexity and Sparsity Inducing Regularization for Parallel ReLU Networks NeurIPS 2023 Approximate Function Evaluation via Multi-Armed Bandits AISTATS 2022 Demystifying Batch Normalization in ReLU Networks: Equivalent Convex Optimization Models and Implicit Regularization ICLR 2022 Fast Convex Optimization for Two-Layer ReLU Networks: Equivalent Model Classes and Cone Decompositions ICML 2022 Hidden Convexity of Wasserstein GANs: Interpretable Generative Models with Closed-Form Solutions ICLR 2022 Neural Fisher Discriminant Analysis: Optimal Neural Network Embeddings in Polynomial Time ICML 2022 The Convex Geometry of Backpropagation: Neural Network Gradient Flows Converge to Extreme Points of the Dual Convex Program ICLR 2022 The Hidden Convex Optimization Landscape of Regularized Two-Layer ReLU Networks: an Exact Characterization of Optimal Solutions ICLR 2022 Unraveling Attention via Convex Duality: Analysis and Interpretations of Vision Transformers ICML 2022 Adaptive Newton Sketch: Linear-time Optimization with Quadratic Convergence and Effective Hessian Dimensionality ICML 2021 Convex Geometry and Duality of Over-parameterized Neural Networks JMLR 2021 Convex Regularization behind Neural Reconstruction ICLR 2021 Global Optimality Beyond Two Layers: Training Deep ReLU Networks via Convex Programs ICML 2021 Implicit Convex Regularizers of CNN Architectures: Convex Optimization of Two- and Three-Layer Networks in Polynomial Time ICLR 2021 Newton-LESS: Sparsification without Trade-offs for the Sketched Newton Update NeurIPS 2021 Revealing the Structure of Deep Neural Networks via Convex Duality ICML 2021 Training Quantized Neural Networks to Global Optimality via Semidefinite Programming ICML 2021 Vector-output ReLU Neural Network Problems are Copositive Programs: Convex Analysis of Two Layer Networks and Polynomial-time Algorithms ICLR 2021 Convex Geometry of Two-Layer ReLU Networks: Implicit Autoencoding and Interpretable Models AISTATS 2020 Debiasing Distributed Second Order Optimization with Surrogate Sketching and Scaled Regularization NeurIPS 2020 Effective Dimension Adaptive Sketching Methods for Faster Regularized Least-Squares Optimization NeurIPS 2020 Neural Networks are Convex Regularizers: Exact Polynomial-time Convex Optimization Formulations for Two-layer Networks ICML 2020 Optimal Iterative Sketching Methods with the Subsampled Randomized Hadamard Transform NeurIPS 2020 Optimal Randomized First-Order Methods for Least-Squares Problems ICML 2020 High-Dimensional Optimization in Adaptive Random Subspaces NeurIPS 2019 Iterative Hessian Sketch: Fast and Accurate Solution Approximation for Constrained Least-Squares JMLR 2016 Recovery of Sparse Probability Measures via Convex Programming NeurIPS 2012