Portrait of Mahdi Ghaznavi

Mahdi Ghaznavi

Supervisor
Ioannis Mitliagkas
Research Topics
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
Deep Learning
Foundation Models
Generalization
Optimization
Out-of-Distribution (OOD) Generalization
Representation Learning
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Publications

The Geometry of Spectral Gradient Descent: Layerwise Criteria for SignSGD vs SpecSGD
Hiroki Naganuma
Laura Gomezjurado
Mahdi Ghaznavi
Ioannis Mitliagkas
Optimization in deep learning has expanded beyond Euclidean methods to include entrywise sign updates (SignSGD) and spectral sign updates (S… (see more)pecGD/Muon). While both can be viewed as steepest descent under non-Euclidean geometries (
2026-03-01
GRaM @ International Conference on Learning Representations (poster)
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