Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Full Professor, University of Southern California

Joined

September 2017

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2024 – Present

Associate Professor

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2021 – 2024

Assistant Professor

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2015 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Advisor

Emmanuel Candes

2009 – 2014

Expertise

nonconvex optimization

theory of deep learning

AI for science and healthcare

LLMs

data curation

2011 – Present

Publications

DiracDiffusion: Denoising and Incremental Reconstruction with Assured Data-Consistency
Zalan Fabian, Berk Tinaz, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
- 24 Apr 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
On the Role of Attention in Prompt-tuning
Samet Oymak, Ankit Singh Rawat, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Christos Thrampoulidis
- Published: 04 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 16 May 2023
- ME-FoMo 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
FUN: Filter-based Unlearnable Datasets
Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Soheil Feizi
- 22 Sept 2022 (modified: 13 Feb 2023)
- ICLR 2023 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
The Geometry of Self-supervised Learning Models and its Impact on Transfer Learning
Romain Cosentino, Sarath Shekkizhar, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Salman Avestimehr, Antonio Ortega
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Outlier-Robust Sparse Estimation via Non-Convex Optimization
Yu Cheng, Ilias Diakonikolas, Rong Ge, Shivam Gupta, Daniel Kane, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
HUMUS-Net: Hybrid Unrolled Multi-scale Network Architecture for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction
Zalan Fabian, Berk Tinaz, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Fundamental Limits of Transfer Learning in Binary Classifications
Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan, Salman Avestimehr, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone
SSFL: Tackling Label Deficiency in Federated Learning via Personalized Self-Supervision
Chaoyang He, Zhengyu Yang, Erum Mushtaq, Sunwoo Lee, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Salman Avestimehr
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone
SLIM-QN: A Stochastic, Light, Momentumized Quasi-Newton Optimizer for Deep Neural Networks
Yue Niu, Zalan Fabian, Sunwoo Lee, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Salman Avestimehr
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone
Small random initialization is akin to spectral learning: Optimization and generalization guarantees for overparameterized low-rank matrix reconstruction
Dominik Stöger, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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