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Adam Ibrahim

4 accepted papers

2025

Why Has Predicting Downstream Capabilities of Frontier AI Models with Scale Remained Elusive?

ICML 2025poster

Predictable behavior from scaling advanced AI systems is an extremely desirable property for engineers, companies, economists and governments alike, and while a well-established literature exists on how pretraining performance scales, predictable scaling behavior on downstream capabilities remains e…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2022

Gradient Descent Is Optimal Under Lower Restricted Secant Inequality And Upper Error Bound

NeurIPS 2022accept

The study of first-order optimization is sensitive to the assumptions made on the objective functions. These assumptions induce complexity classes which play a key role in worst-case analysis, including the fundamental concept of algorithm optimality. Recent work argues that strong convexity and smo…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2021

Adversarial Feature Desensitization

NeurIPS 2021poster

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- slight but carefully constructed perturbations of the inputs which can drastically impair the network's performance. Many defense methods have been proposed for improving robustness of deep networks by training them on adversarial…

2020

Linear Lower Bounds and Conditioning of Differentiable Games

ICML 2020poster

Recent successes of game-theoretic formulations in ML have caused a resurgence of research interest in differentiable games. Overwhelmingly, that research focuses on methods and upper bounds on their speed of convergence. In this work, we approach the question of fundamental iteration complexity by…

Cited by 68SourcePDFScholar