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Mehrdad Mahdavi
Google Scholar ID: HzxnwocAAAAJ
Hartz Family Associate Professor of Computer Science @ Penn State
Machine Learning
Optimization Theory
Learning Theory
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From Task Mixtures to Specialized Experts
2026
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Conditional Optimal Bridge for Riemannian Activation Steering
2026
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Correlation-Aware Contextual Bandits with Surrogate Rewards for LLM Routing
2026
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Curvature-Guided Module Localization for Low-Rank Detoxification of Backdoored Large Language Models
2026
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Subspace-Aware Sparse Autoencoders for Effective Mechanistic Interpretability
2026
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Merge before Forget: A Single LoRA Continual Learning via Continual Merging
2025
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Model Merging via Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation
2025
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On the Convergence and Stability of Distributed Sub-model Training
2025
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Academic Achievements
NSF CAREER Award (IIS: Robust Intelligence, 2023)
Mark Fulk Best Student Paper Award at Conference on Learning Theory (COLT, 2012)
Top Cited Paper Award, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation (Elsevier, 2010)
Ph.D. Thesis: 'Exploiting smoothness in statistical learning, sequential prediction, and stochastic optimization'
Published multiple papers in top venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, and Electronic Journal of Statistics
Co-authors
17 total
Rong Jin
Alibaba Group
Tianbao Yang
Texas A&M University
Mohammad Mahdi Kamani
Senior Member of Technical Staff, AMD
Yuyang Deng
Columbia University
Farzin Haddadpour
AI Scientist, GE Healthcare
Aryan Mokhtari
UT Austin
Huaxiu Yao
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, UNC Chapel Hill
Chelsea Finn
Stanford University, Physical Intelligence