Graduate student in Applied and Computational Math at Caltech, advised by Venkat Chandrasekaran.
I'm interested in the interplay between geometry, symmetry, and optimization, and its application to data science.
Links: CV, Google Scholar, GitHub, ORCID.
Email: eitanl@caltech.edu
Any-Dimensional Polynomial Optimization via de Finetti Theorems
with Venkat Chandrasekaran. Submitted. 2025.
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Poset-Markov Channels: Capacity via Group Symmetry
with Eray U. Atay, Venkat Chandrasekaran, and Victoria Kostina. Submitted. 2025.
On Transferring Transferability: Towards a Theory for Size Generalization
with Yuxin Ma, Mateo Díaz, and Soledad Villar. NeurIPS. 2025. (Spotlight)
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Free descriptions of convex sets
with Venkat Chandrasekaran. Submitted. 2024.
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Any-dimensional equivariant neural networks
with Mateo Díaz. AISTATS. 2024.
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The effect of smooth parametrizations on nonconvex optimization landscapes
with Joe Kileel and Nicolas Boumal. Mathematical Programming. 2024. (INFORMS optimization society student paper prize)
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Finding stationary points on bounded-rank matrices: A geometric hurdle and a smooth remedy
with Joe Kileel and Nicolas Boumal. Mathematical Programming. 2023.
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Towards optimization on varieties
Undergraduate senior thesis. Princeton University. 2020.
[DataSpace]
A note on Douglas-Rachford, gradients, and phase retrieval
with Tamir Bendory. arXiv:1911.13179. 2019.
Multi-target detection with application to cryo-electron microscopy
with Tamir Bendory, Nicolas Boumal, William Leeb, and Amit Singer. Inverse Problems. 2019.
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Toward single particle reconstruction without particle picking: Breaking the detection limit
with Tamir Bendory, Nicolas Boumal, William Leeb, and Amit Singer. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 2023.
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3D ab initio modeling in cryo-EM by autocorrelation analysis
with Tamir Bendory, Nicolas Boumal, Joe Kileel, and Amit Singer. 2018 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018). 2018. (Best student paper)
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Direct reconstruction of two-dimensional currents in thin films from magnetic-field measurements
with Alexander Meltzer and Eli Zeldov. Physical Review Applied. 2017.
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Stopping criterion for iterative regularization of large-scale ill-posed problems using the Picard parameter
with Alexander Meltzer. arXiv:1707.04200. 2017.
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Estimation of the regularization parameter in linear discrete ill-posed problems using the Picard parameter
with Alexander Meltzer. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 2017.
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