Jelassi, Samy

21 publications

ICLR 2026 Let's (not) Just Put Things in Context: Test-Time Training for Long-Context LLMs Rachit Bansal, Aston Zhang, Rishabh Tiwari, Lovish Madaan, Sai Surya Duvvuri, Fnu Devvrit, David Brandfonbrener, David Alvarez-Melis, Prajjwal Bhargava, Mihir Kale, Samy Jelassi

ICLR 2026 Parameter-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Using Prefix Optimization Itamar Rocha Filho, Rosie Zhao, Sham M. Kakade, Eran Malach, Samy Jelassi

ICLRW 2025 Collective Model Intelligence Requires Compatible Specialization Jyothish Pari, Samy Jelassi, Pulkit Agrawal

NeurIPS 2025 Let Me Think! a Long Chain of Thought Can Be Worth Exponentially Many Short Ones Parsa Mirtaheri, Ezra Edelman, Samy Jelassi, Eran Malach, Enric Boix-Adserà

ICLR 2025 Mixture of Parrots: Experts Improve Memorization More than Reasoning Samy Jelassi, Clara Mohri, David Brandfonbrener, Alex Gu, Nikhil Vyas, Nikhil Anand, David Alvarez-Melis, Yuanzhi Li, Sham M. Kakade, Eran Malach

ICML 2025 The Role of Sparsity for Length Generalization in LLMs Noah Golowich, Samy Jelassi, David Brandfonbrener, Sham M. Kakade, Eran Malach

ICML 2025 Universal Length Generalization with Turing Programs Kaiying Hou, David Brandfonbrener, Sham M. Kakade, Samy Jelassi, Eran Malach

NeurIPSW 2024 Mixture of Parrots: Mixtures of Experts Improve Memorization More than Reasoning Samy Jelassi, Clara Mohri, David Brandfonbrener, Alex Gu, Nikhil Vyas, Nikhil Anand, David Alvarez-Melis, Yuanzhi Li, Sham M. Kakade, Eran Malach

ICML 2024 Q-Probe: A Lightweight Approach to Reward Maximization for Language Models Kenneth Li, Samy Jelassi, Hugh Zhang, Sham M. Kakade, Martin Wattenberg, David Brandfonbrener

ICML 2024 Repeat After Me: Transformers Are Better than State Space Models at Copying Samy Jelassi, David Brandfonbrener, Sham M. Kakade, Eran Malach

JMLR 2022 A Momentumized, Adaptive, Dual Averaged Gradient Method Aaron Defazio, Samy Jelassi

JMLR 2022 Depth Separation Beyond Radial Functions Luca Venturi, Samy Jelassi, Tristan Ozuch, Joan Bruna

ICML 2022 Towards Understanding How Momentum Improves Generalization in Deep Learning Samy Jelassi, Yuanzhi Li

NeurIPS 2022 Vision Transformers Provably Learn Spatial Structure Samy Jelassi, Michael Sander, Yuanzhi Li

AAAI 2021 A Permutation-Equivariant Neural Network Architecture for Auction Design Jad Rahme, Samy Jelassi, Joan Bruna, S. Matthew Weinberg

ICLR 2021 Auction Learning as a Two-Player Game Jad Rahme, Samy Jelassi, S. Matthew Weinberg

NeurIPS 2020 A Mean-Field Analysis of Two-Player Zero-Sum Games Carles Domingo-Enrich, Samy Jelassi, Arthur Mensch, Grant Rotskoff, Joan Bruna

ICML 2020 Extra-Gradient with Player Sampling for Faster Convergence in N-Player Games Samy Jelassi, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Damien Scieur, Arthur Mensch, Joan Bruna

ICML 2019 Neuron Birth-Death Dynamics Accelerates Gradient Descent and Converges Asymptotically Grant Rotskoff, Samy Jelassi, Joan Bruna, Eric Vanden-Eijnden

NeurIPS 2019 Towards Closing the Gap Between the Theory and Practice of SVRG Othmane Sebbouh, Nidham Gazagnadou, Samy Jelassi, Francis Bach, Robert Gower

NeurIPS 2018 Smoothed Analysis of the Low-Rank Approach for Smooth Semidefinite Programs Thomas Pumir, Samy Jelassi, Nicolas Boumal