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Clayton Sanford
Researcher, Google Research, Google
Joined
May 2021
Names
Clayton Sanford
(Preferred)
,
Clayton Hendrick Sanford
Emails
****@cs.columbia.edu
(Confirmed)
,
****@gmail.com
(Confirmed)
,
****@google.com
(Confirmed)
Personal Links
Homepage
Google Scholar
DBLP
LinkedIn
Career & Education History
Researcher
Google Research,
Google
(google.com)
2024
–
Present
Intern
Google Research,
Google
(google.com)
2024
–
2024
PhD student
Computer Science,
Columbia University
(columbia.edu)
2019
–
2024
Intern
Research, Microsoft
(research.microsoft.com)
2023
–
2023
Intern
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
(allenai.org)
2022
–
2022
Undergrad student
Applied Math, Computer Science,
Brown University
(brown.edu)
2014
–
2018
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coworker
Bahare Fatemi
2024
–
Present
Coworker
Anton Tsitsulin
2024
–
Present
Coworker
Ethan Hall
2024
–
Present
Coworker
Vahab Mirrokni
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Ali Parviz
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Mahdi Karami
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Ali Behrouz
2024
–
Present
Coworker
Bryan Perozzi
2024
–
Present
Coworker
Jonathan Halcrow
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Amir Globerson
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Gilad Yehudai
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Maya Bechler-Speicher
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Ran Gilad-Bachrach
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Orr Fischer
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini
2024
–
Present
Coauthor
Murat A Erdogdu
2024
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Present
Coauthor
Denny Wu
2024
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Present
Coauthor
Hantao Yu
2024
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Present
Coauthor
Jingwen Liu
2024
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Present
Coauthor
Matus Telgarsky
2022
–
Present
PhD Advisor
Daniel Hsu
2019
–
Present
Coworker
Hantao Yu
2025
–
2025
PhD Advisor
Rocco Servedio
2019
–
2024
Coauthor
Navid Ardeshir
2021
–
2023
Coauthor
Min Jae Song
2022
–
2022
Coauthor
Alberto Bietti
2022
–
2022
Coauthor
Joan Bruna
2022
–
2022
Coauthor
Vaggos Chatziafratis
2021
–
2022
Coauthor
Emmanouil Vasileios Vlatakis Gkaragkounis
2019
–
2022
Expertise
transformers
2023
–
Present
machine learning theory
2019
–
Present
Publications
Next-Token Prediction and Regret Minimization
Mehryar Mohri
,
Clayton Sanford
,
Jon Schneider
,
Kiran Vodrahalli
,
Yifan Wu
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
When Do Transformers Outperform Feedforward and Recurrent Networks? A Statistical Perspective
Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini
,
Clayton Sanford
,
Denny Wu
,
Murat A Erdogdu
HiLD at ICML 2025 Oral
Readers:
Everyone
Fast attention mechanisms: a tale of parallelism
Jingwen Liu
,
Hantao Yu
,
Clayton Sanford
,
Alexandr Andoni
,
Daniel Hsu
NeurIPS 2025 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Depth-Width Tradeoffs for Transformers on Graph Tasks
Gilad Yehudai
,
Clayton Sanford
,
Maya Bechler-Speicher
,
Orr Fischer
,
Ran Gilad-Bachrach
,
Amir Globerson
NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
Readers:
Everyone
When Do Transformers Outperform Feedforward and Recurrent Networks? A Statistical Perspective
Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini
,
Clayton Sanford
,
Denny Wu
,
Murat A Erdogdu
NeurIPS 2025 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Best of Both Worlds: Advantages of Hybrid Graph Sequence Models
Ali Behrouz
,
Ali Parviz
,
Mahdi Karami
,
Clayton Sanford
,
Bryan Perozzi
,
Vahab Mirrokni
ICML 2025 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Towards an Understanding of Graph Sequence Models
Ali Behrouz
,
Ali Parviz
,
Mahdi Karami
,
Clayton Sanford
,
Bryan Perozzi
,
Vahab Mirrokni
Submitted to ICLR 2025
Readers:
Everyone
Understanding Transformer Reasoning Capabilities via Graph Algorithms
Clayton Sanford
,
Bahare Fatemi
,
Ethan Hall
,
Anton Tsitsulin
,
Mehran Kazemi
,
Jonathan Halcrow
,
Bryan Perozzi
,
Vahab Mirrokni
NeurIPS 2024 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Transformers, parallel computation, and logarithmic depth
Clayton Sanford
,
Daniel Hsu
,
Matus Telgarsky
ICML 2024 Spotlight
Readers:
Everyone
Transformers, parallel computation, and logarithmic depth
Clayton Sanford
,
Daniel Hsu
,
Matus Telgarsky
ICML 2024
Readers:
Everyone
View all 38 publications
Co-Authors
Alberto Bietti
Alexandr Andoni
Ali Behrouz
Ali Parviz
Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini
Amir Globerson
Anton Tsitsulin
Bahare Fatemi
Bryan Perozzi
Cyrus Cousins
Daniel Hsu
Daniel J. Hsu
Denny Wu
Eli Upfal
Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis
Ethan Hall
Gilad Yehudai
Hantao Yu
Ioannis Panageas
Jingwen Liu
Joan Bruna
Jon Schneider
Jonathan Halcrow
Kamil Jan Cygan
Kiran Vodrahalli
View all 43 co-authors