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Cagatay Yildiz

8 accepted papers

2026

Investigating Continual Pretraining in Large Language Models: Insights and Implications

ICML 2026poster

Continual learning (CL) in large language models (LLMs) is an evolving domain that focuses on developing efficient and sustainable training strategies to adapt models to emerging knowledge and achieve robustness in dynamic environments. Our primary emphasis is on continual domain-adaptive pretrainin…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Latent Neural ODEs with Sparse Bayesian Multiple Shooting

ICLR 2023poster

Training dynamic models, such as neural ODEs, on long trajectories is a hard problem that requires using various tricks, such as trajectory splitting, to make model training work in practice. These methods are often heuristics with poor theoretical justifications, and require iterative manual tuning…

2023

Modulated Neural ODEs

NeurIPS 2023poster

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) have been proven useful for learning non-linear dynamics of arbitrary trajectories. However, current NODE methods capture variations across trajectories only via the initial state value or by auto-regressive encoder updates. In this work, we introduce M…

2022

Learning interacting dynamical systems with latent Gaussian process ODEs

NeurIPS 2022accept

We study uncertainty-aware modeling of continuous-time dynamics of interacting objects. We introduce a new model that decomposes independent dynamics of single objects accurately from their interactions. By employing latent Gaussian process ordinary differential equations, our model infers both inde…

2021

Continuous-time Model-based Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2021spotlight

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) approaches rely on discrete-time state transition models whereas physical systems and the vast majority of control tasks operate in continuous-time. To avoid time-discretization approximation of the underlying process, we propose a continuous-time MBRL frame…

2019

ODE2VAE: Deep generative second order ODEs with Bayesian neural networks

NeurIPS 2019poster

We present Ordinary Differential Equation Variational Auto-Encoder (ODE2VAE), a latent second order ODE model for high-dimensional sequential data. Leveraging the advances in deep generative models, ODE2VAE can simultaneously learn the embedding of high dimensional trajectories and infer arbitrarily…

2018

Asynchronous Stochastic Quasi-Newton MCMC for Non-Convex Optimization

ICML 2018oral

Recent studies have illustrated that stochastic gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques have a strong potential in non-convex optimization, where local and global convergence guarantees can be shown under certain conditions. By building up on this recent theory, in this study, we develop an asy…

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2018

Learning unknown ODE models with Gaussian processes

ICML 2018oral

In conventional ODE modelling coefficients of an equation driving the system state forward in time are estimated. However, for many complex systems it is practically impossible to determine the equations or interactions governing the underlying dynamics. In these settings, parametric ODE model canno…