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20192026
most citedHeavy Tails in SGD and Compressibility of Overparametrized Neural Networks

12 citations · 18 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2026

From Data Statistics to Feature Geometry: How Correlations Shape Superposition

Lucas Prieto, Edward Stevinson, Melih Barsbey +2

A central idea in mechanistic interpretability is that neural networks represent more features than they have dimensions, arranging them in superposition to form an over-complete b…

cs.LG2026

Multi-Way Representation Alignment

Akshit Achara, Tatiana Gaintseva, Mateo Mahaut +5

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests that independently trained neural networks converge to increasingly similar latent spaces. However, current strategies for mapping t…

cs.LG2025

Adversarial Attacks Leverage Interference Between Features in Superposition

Edward Stevinson, Lucas Prieto, Melih Barsbey +1

Why do adversarial examples exist, and why do they transfer between models? Existing explanations appeal to high-dimensional geometry, non-robust patterns in the input, and decisio…

cs.LG2025

Large Learning Rates Simultaneously Achieve Robustness to Spurious Correlations and Compressibility

Melih Barsbey, Lucas Prieto, Stefanos Zafeiriou +1

Robustness and resource-efficiency are two highly desirable properties for modern machine learning models. However, achieving them jointly remains a challenge. In this paper, we id…

cs.LG2025

On the Interaction of Compressibility and Adversarial Robustness

Melih Barsbey, Antônio H. Ribeiro, Umut Şimşekli +1

As demands for resource efficiency and safety in modern neural networks intensify, substantial research effort has gone into model compression and adversarial robustness. Yet despi…

stat.ML2025

Algorithmic Stability of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum under Heavy-Tailed Noise

Thanh Dang, Melih Barsbey, A K M Rokonuzzaman Sonet +3

Understanding the generalization properties of optimization algorithms under heavy-tailed noise has gained growing attention. However, the existing theoretical results mainly focus…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Grokking at the Edge of Numerical Stability

Lucas Prieto, Melih Barsbey, Pedro A. M. Mediano +1

Grokking, the sudden generalization that occurs after prolonged overfitting, is a surprising phenomenon challenging our understanding of deep learning. Although significant progres…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Evaluating AI systems under uncertain ground truth: a case study in dermatology

David Stutz, Ali Taylan Cemgil, Abhijit Guha Roy +17

For safety, medical AI systems undergo thorough evaluations before deployment, validating their predictions against a ground truth which is assumed to be fixed and certain. However…

stat.ML2022★ 1 cited

Algorithmic Stability of Heavy-Tailed Stochastic Gradient Descent on Least Squares

Anant Raj, Melih Barsbey, Mert Gürbüzbalaban +2

Recent studies have shown that heavy tails can emerge in stochastic optimization and that the heaviness of the tails have links to the generalization error. While these studies hav…

q-bio.QM2021

DebiasedDTA: A Framework for Improving the Generalizability of Drug-Target Affinity Prediction Models

Rıza Özçelik, Alperen Bağ, Berk Atıl +3

Computational models that accurately predict the binding affinity of an input protein-chemical pair can accelerate drug discovery studies. These models are trained on available pro…

stat.ML2021★ 12 cited

Heavy Tails in SGD and Compressibility of Overparametrized Neural Networks

Melih Barsbey, Milad Sefidgaran, Murat A. Erdogdu +2

Neural network compression techniques have become increasingly popular as they can drastically reduce the storage and computation requirements for very large networks. Recent empir…

stat.ML2019★ 2 cited

Bayesian Allocation Model: Inference by Sequential Monte Carlo for Nonnegative Tensor Factorizations and Topic Models using Polya Urns

Ali Taylan Cemgil, Mehmet Burak Kurutmaz, Sinan Yildirim +2

We introduce a dynamic generative model, Bayesian allocation model (BAM), which establishes explicit connections between nonnegative tensor factorization (NTF), graphical models of…