Volkan Cevher

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

Infoscience publications

Selected Publications

Adaptive Bilevel Optimization

K. Antonakopoulos; S. Sabach; L. Viano; M. Hong; V. Cevher

ACM / IMS Journal of Data Science. 2025. DOI : 10.1145/3728478.

Volkan Cevher

Associate Professor

Fields of expertise

Biography

Publications

Infoscience publications

Selected Publications

Adaptive Bilevel Optimization

Quantum-Peft: Ultra Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Addressing Label Shift In Distributed Learning Via Entropy Regularization

Faster Inference Of Flow-Based Generative Models Via Improved Data-Noise Coupling

Efficient Interpolation Between Extragradient And Proximal Methods For Weak MVIS

How Gradient Descent Balances Features: A Dynamical Analysis For Two-Layer Neural Networks

Certified Robustness Under Bounded Levenshtein Distance

Adversarial Training For Defense Against Label Poisoning Attacks

Hadamard product in deep learning: Introduction, Advances and Challenges

Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models

SAMPa: Sharpness-aware Minimization Parallelized

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

Going beyond Compositions, DDPMs Can Produce Zero-Shot Interpolations

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

Truly No-Regret Learning in Constrained MDPs

Mixed Nash for Robust Federated Learning

Universal Gradient Methods for Stochastic Convex Optimization

Learning to Remove Cuts in Integer Linear Programming

Multilinear Operator Networks

Improving SAM Requires Rethinking its Optimization Formulation

Revisiting Character-level Adversarial Attacks for Language Models

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

Imitation Learning in Discounted Linear MDPs without exploration assumptions

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

Efficient Continual Finite-Sum Minimization

On the Generalization of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum

Graph generative deep learning models with an application to circuit topologies

Efficient local linearity regularization to overcome catastrophic overfitting

Generalization of Scaled Deep ResNets in the Mean-Field Regime

Stable Nonconvex-Nonconcave Training via Linear Interpolation

A unified stochastic approximation framework for learning in games

Maximum Independent Set: Self-Training through Dynamic Programming

Distributed Extra-Gradient With Optimal Complexity And Communication Guarantees

DiGress: Discrete Denoising diffusion for graph generation

What can online reinforcement learning with function approximation benefitfrom general coverage conditions

Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Provable and Scalable Machine Learning

Benign Overfitting in Deep Neural Networks under Lazy Training

Regularization of polynomial networks for image recognition

Efficient Online Clustering with Moving Costs

Initialization Matters: Privacy-Utility Analysis of Overparameterized Neural Networks

Sample Complexity Bounds for Score-Matching: Causal Discovery and Generative Modeling

Regularization of polynomial networks for image recognition

Finding Actual Descent Directions For Adversarial Training

Alternation makes the adversary weaker in two-player games

Robust Training and Verification of Deep Neural Networks

Revisiting adversarial training for the worst-performing class

Adversarial Training Should Be Cast As a Non-Zero-Sum Game

When do Minimax-fair Learning and Empirical Risk Minimization Coincide?

Federated Learning under Covariate Shifts with Generalization Guarantees

Solving stochastic weak Minty variational inequalities without increasing batch size

On the Convergence of Encoder-only Shallow Transformers

Universal and adaptive methods for robust stochastic optimization

Improving Generalization of Pretrained Language Models

Semi Bandit Dynamics in Congestion Games: Convergence to Nash Equilibrium and No-Regret Guarantees.

Faster One-Sample Stochastic Conditional Gradient Method for Composite Convex Minimization

On the Double Descent of Random Features Models Trained with SGD

Sound and Complete Verification of Polynomial Networks

Extrapolation and Spectral Bias of Neural Nets with Hadamard Product: a Polynomial Net Study

A Natural Actor-Critic Framework for Zero-Sum Markov Games

UNDERGRAD: A Universal Black-Box Optimization Method with Almost Dimension-Free Convergence Rate Guarantees

A 16-Channel Neural Recording System-on-Chip With CHT Feature Extraction Processor in 65-nm CMOS

Controlling the Complexity and Lipschitz Constant improves Polynomial Nets

Adaptive Stochastic Variance Reduction for Non-convex Finite-Sum Minimization

Escaping limit cycles: Global convergence for constrained nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problems

Identifiability and Generalizability from Multiple Experts in Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Robustness in deep learning: The good (width), the bad (depth), and the ugly (initialization)

On The Convergence Of Stochastic Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient

Predicting in Uncertain Environments: Methods for Robust Machine Learning

Extra Newton: A First Approach to Noise-Adaptive Accelerated Second-Order Methods

High Probability Bounds for a Class of Nonconvex Algorithms with AdaGrad Stepsize

The spectral bias of polynomial neural networks

Understanding Deep Neural Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning via ϵ-Greedy Exploration

Proximal Point Imitation Learning