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Cengiz Pehlevan

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

A Solvable Model of Adaptive Learning Rate Rescaling: Acceleration, Stability&Scaling

A recurring design principle in modern optimizers is to decouple update magnitude from the raw gradient norm, yet its consequences for learning-curve and resource scaling remain unclear. We isolate this mechanism by studying normalized SGD in a random-feature model with power-law teacher and data covariance. Fixed-norm...

Itay Lavie, Clarissa Lauditi, Cengiz Pehlevan · 0 citations
Jul 2026

A Defense of the Quadratic Model

Due to the complexity of neural network loss landscapes, optimization theory is forced to rely on idealized models, and there is generally a tradeoff between how theoretically tractable the model is, and how accurately it describes the true optimization dynamics. In this work, we stress test the simplest possible model...

Alexandru Meterez, Pranav Ajit Nair, Depen Morwani et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

On the Importance of Gating: Memorization vs. In-Context Learning in State Space Models

It is shown that this gating mechanism causes SSMs to first learn an in-weights"memorization"solution, while delaying, or even preventing, convergence to a correct in-context learning solution, and that gating is often beneficial for improving generalization to long sequence lengths.

W. Tong, Aryo Lotfi, Emmanuel Abbé et al. · 0 citations

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