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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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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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NaviSense: A Multimodal Assistive Mobile application for Object Retrieval by Persons with Visual Impairment
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
21 total
Rong Jin
Alibaba Group
Tianbao Yang
Texas A&M University
Mohammad Mahdi Kamani
Senior Member of Technical Staff, AMD
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Yuyang Deng
Columbia University
Farzin Haddadpour
AI Scientist, GE Healthcare
Aryan Mokhtari
UT Austin