I am excited to announce that I will join the University of Zurich as an assistant professor in August this year! I am looking for PhD students and postdocs starting from the fall. My research interests include optimization, federated learning, machine learning, privacy, and unlearning.

🤗Thanks a lot @haeggee.bsky.social and @mjaggi.bsky.social for having me in the MLO group at EPFL @icepfl.bsky.social to present "Large Language Models as Markov Chains". Slides are available on my website (link in thread). 🎉 New experiments with Llama and Gemma models in the updated paper!

Learning rate schedules seem mysterious? Why is the loss going down so fast during cooldown? Turns out that this behaviour can be described with a bound from *convex, nonsmooth* optimization. A short thread on our latest paper 🚞 arxiv.org/abs/2501.18965

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