Prof. Volkan Cevher

Research Interests:

  • Machine Learning
  • Optimization
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Theory

Biography

Volkan Cevher received the B.Sc. (valedictorian) in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1999 and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA in 2005. He was a Research Scientist with the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2006-2007 and also with Rice University in Houston, TX, from 2008-2009. He was also a Faculty Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University from 2010-2020. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and an Amazon Scholar. His research interests include machine learning, optimization theory and methods, and automated control. Dr. Cevher is an IEEE Fellow (’24), an ELLIS fellow, and was the recipient of the ICML AdvML Best Paper Award in 2023, Google Faculty Research award in 2018, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2016, a Best Paper Award at CAMSAP in 2015, a Best Paper Award at SPARS in 2009, and an ERC CG in 2016 as well as an ERC StG in 2011.

Publications (most recent)

SAMPa: Sharpness-aware Minimization Parallelized

W. Xie; T. M. Pethick; V. Cevher 

38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2024-12-10 – 2024-12-15.

Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models

Zhan Li; Y. Wu; Y. Chen; F. Tonin; E. Abad Rocamora et al. 

2024. 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver Convention Center, 2024-12-10 – 2024-12-15.

REST: Efficient and Accelerated EEG Seizure Analysis through Residual State Updates

A. Afzal; G. Chrysos; V. Cevher; M. Shoaran 

2024. 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, 2024-07-21.

Going beyond Compositions, DDPMs Can Produce Zero-Shot Interpolations

J. S. Deschenaux; I. Krawczuk; G. Chrysos; V. Cevher 

2024. 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, 2024-07-21.

Learning with Norm Constrained, Over-parameterized, Two-layer Neural Networks

F. Liu; L. Dadi; V. Cevher 

Journal of Machine Learning Research. 2024. Vol. 25.

Truly No-Regret Learning in Constrained MDPs

A. Müller; P. Alatur; V. Cevher; G. Ramponi; N. He 

2024. 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, 2024-07-21. p. 36605 – 36653.

Mixed Nash for Robust Federated Learning

W. Xie; T. M. Pethick; A. Ramezani-Kebrya; V. Cevher 

Transactions on Machine Learning Research. 2024. Vol. 02.

Universal Gradient Methods for Stochastic Convex Optimization

A. Rodomanov; A. Kavis; Y. Wu; K. Antonakopoulos; V. Cevher 

2024. 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, 2024-07-21.

Improving SAM Requires Rethinking its Optimization Formulation

W. Xie; F. Latorre; K. Antonakopoulos; T. M. Pethick; V. Cevher 

2024. 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024.

Robust NAS under adversarial training: benchmark, theory, and beyond

Y. Wu; F. Liu; C-J. Simon-Gabriel; G. Chrysos; V. Cevher 

2024. 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024.

Multilinear Operator Networks

Y. Cheng; G. Chrysos; M. Georgopoulos; V. Cevher 

2024. 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, 2024-05-07 – 2024-05-11.

Graph generative deep learning models with an application to circuit topologies

I. Krawczuk / V. Cevher; Y. Leblebici (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

On the Generalization of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum

A. Ramezani-Kebrya; K. Antonakopoulos; V. Cevher; A. Khisti; B. Liang 

Journal Of Machine Learning Research. 2024. Vol. 25, p. 1 – 56.

High-Dimensional Kernel Methods under Covariate Shift: Data-Dependent Implicit Regularization

Y. Chen; F. Liu; T. Suzuki; V. Cevher 

2024. 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024.

Efficient Continual Finite-Sum Minimization

I. Mavrothalassitis; E. P. Skoulakis; L. T. Dadi; V. Cevher 

2024. 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024.

Imitation Learning in Discounted Linear MDPs without exploration assumptions

L. Viano; E. P. Skoulakis; V. Cevher 

2024. 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024.

Efficient local linearity regularization to overcome catastrophic overfitting

E. Abad Rocamora; F. Liu; G. Chrysos; P. M. Olmos; V. Cevher 

2024. 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024.

Learning to Remove Cuts in Integer Linear Programming

P. Puigdemont; E. P. Skoulakis; G. Chrysos; V. Cevher 

2024. 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024.

Generalization of Scaled Deep ResNets in the Mean-Field Regime

Y. Chen; F. Liu; Y. Lu; G. Chrysos; V. Cevher 

2024. 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024.

Revisiting Character-level Adversarial Attacks for Language Models

E. Abad Rocamora; Y. Wu; F. Liu; G. Chrysos; V. Cevher 

2024. 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024.

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