Mert Pilanci
45 papers · 2012–2025 · 6 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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convex optimization
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Papers
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