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David Alvarez-Melis

Harvard University

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Adam or Gauss-Newton? A Comparative Study In Terms of Basis Alignment and SGD Noise

The theoretical results show that GN's optimality for linear regression no longer holds under a poorly chosen basis under both population and stochastic updates, or a move from linear regression to a non-convex variant of logistic regression, and Adam-style methods offer genuine advantages over curvature-inspired preco...

Bingbin Liu, Rachit Bansal, Depen Morwani et al. · 3 citations
Jul 2026

Domain-Aware Scaling Laws Uncover Data Synergy

This work formalize and quantify data synergy in language model pretraining by leveraging observational variation across open-weight LLMs with diverse pretraining mixtures and estimating both direct domain-to-benchmark synergy and second-order domain-domain synergy (capabilities that require co-occurrence of multiple d...

K. Hamidieh, Lester Mackey, David Alvarez-Melis · 4 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Thinking at the Right Size: Amortized Distillation Across Post-Trained LLMs

ADAPT---Amortized Distillation Across Post-Trained LLMs is introduced, a framework for amortizing distillation across both axes of a model family: size and post-training variant, producing models for interpolated sizes across post-trained variants with a single distillation run.

Yan Zhou, Sara Kangaslahti, Jonathan Geuter et al. · 0 citations

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