Druv Pai
Scholar

Druv Pai

Google Scholar ID: GdOmgYwAAAAJ
PhD Student, UC Berkeley
deep learning theorycomputer visionNLP
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
319
 
H-index
10
 
i10-index
10
 
Publications
17
 
Co-authors
10
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Learning Deep Representations of Data Distributions – Open-source textbook.
  • Token Statistics Transformer: Linear-Time Attention via Variational Rate Reduction – ICLR 2025 (Spotlight).
  • On the Edge of Memorization in Diffusion Models.
  • White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction: Compression is all There Is? – JMLR 2024 (parts presented at NeurIPS 2023, ICLR 2024, CPAL 2024).
  • Simplifying DINO via Coding Rate Regularization – ICML 2025.
  • Active-Dormant Attention Heads: Mechanistically Demystifying Extreme-Token Phenomena in LLMs.