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Vignesh Kothapalli

5 accepted papers

2026

Balancing Learning Rates Across Layers: Exact Two-Step Dynamics and Optimal Scaling in Linear Neural Networks

ICML 2026poster

We study optimal learning-rate selection in two-layer and three-layer linear neural networks trained to learn a single-index target function. In particular, we derive the exact closed-form expressions for the gradients and test loss after one and two steps of gradient descent, enabling a precise cha…

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2026

PluRel: Synthetic Data unlocks Scaling Laws for Relational Foundation Models

ICML 2026poster

Relational Foundation Models (RFMs) facilitate data-driven decision-making by learning from complex multi-table databases. However, the diverse relational databases needed to train such models are rarely public due to privacy constraints. While there are methods to generate synthetic tabular data of…

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2025

CoT-ICL Lab: A Synthetic Framework for Studying Chain-of-Thought Learning from In-Context Demonstrations

ACL 2025long

We introduce CoT-ICL Lab, a framework and methodology to generate synthetic tokenized datasets and systematically study chain-of thought (CoT) in-context learning (ICL) in language models. CoT-ICL Lab allows fine grained control over the complexity of in-context examples by decoupling (1) the causal…

2023

A Neural Collapse Perspective on Feature Evolution in Graph Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2023poster

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become increasingly popular for classification tasks on graph-structured data. Yet, the interplay between graph topology and feature evolution in GNNs is not well understood. In this paper, we focus on node-wise classification, illustrated with community detection o…