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Rishi Sonthalia

7 accepted papers

2026

Risk Phase Transitions in Spiked Regression: Alignment Driven Benign and Catastrophic Overfitting

ICLR 2026poster

This paper analyzes the generalization error of minimum-norm interpolating solutions in linear regression using spiked covariance data models. The paper characterizes how varying spike strengths and target-spike alignments can affect risk, especially in overparameterized settings. The study presents…

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2025

Universal Approximation of Mean-Field Models via Transformers

ICML 2025poster

This paper investigates the use of transformers to approximate the mean-field dynamics of interacting particle systems exhibiting collective behavior. Such systems are fundamental in modeling phenomena across physics, biology, and engineering, including opinion formation, biological networks, and sw…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Near-Interpolators: Rapid Norm Growth and the Trade-Off between Interpolation and Generalization

AISTATS 2024poster

We study the generalization capability of nearly-interpolating linear regressors: ${\beta}$’s whose training error $\tau$ is positive but small, i.e., below the noise floor. Under a random matrix theoretic assumption on the data distribution and an eigendecay assumption on the data covariance matrix…

2021

How can classical multidimensional scaling go wrong?

NeurIPS 2021poster

Given a matrix $D$ describing the pairwise dissimilarities of a data set, a common task is to embed the data points into Euclidean space. The classical multidimensional scaling (cMDS) algorithm is a widespread method to do this. However, theoretical analysis of the robustness of the algorithm and an…