Robin Yadav

MS student, University of British Columbia

Undergrad student, Computer Science, University of British Columbia

Joined

September 2023

Names

Robin Yadav (Preferred)

Emails

****@student.ubc.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

MS student

University of British Columbia (ubc.ca)

2026 – Present

Undergrad student

Computer Science, University of British Columbia (ubc.ca)

2021 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Provable Benefit of Sign Descent: A Minimal Model Under Heavy-Tail Class Imbalance
Robin Yadav, Shuo Xie, Tianhao Wang, Zhiyuan Li
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Local Curvature Descent: Squeezing More Curvature out of Standard and Polyak Gradient Descent
Peter Richtárik, Simone Maria Giancola, Dymitr Lubczyk, Robin Yadav
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
RETRO SYNFLOW: Discrete Flow-Matching for Accurate and Diverse Single-Step Retrosynthesis
Robin Yadav, Qi Yan, Guy Wolf, Joey Bose, Renjie Liao
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Heavy-Tailed Class Imbalance and Why Adam Outperforms Gradient Descent on Language Models
Frederik Kunstner, Alan Milligan, Robin Yadav, Mark Schmidt, Alberto Bietti
- M3L Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Heavy-Tailed Class Imbalance and Why Adam Outperforms Gradient Descent on Language Models
Frederik Kunstner, Robin Yadav, Alan Milligan, Mark Schmidt, Alberto Bietti
- NeurIPS 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Local Curvature Descent: Squeezing More Curvature out of Standard and Polyak Gradient Descent
Peter Richtárik, Simone Maria Giancola, Dymitr Lubczyk, Robin Yadav
- NeurIPS 2024 Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Local Curvature Descent: Squeezing More Curvature out of Standard and Polyak Gradient Descent
Peter Richtárik, Simone Maria Giancola, Dymitr Lubczyk, Robin Yadav
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Heavy-Tailed Class Imbalance and Why Adam Outperforms Gradient Descent on Language Models
Frederik Kunstner, Alan Milligan, Robin Yadav, Mark Schmidt, Alberto Bietti
- NeurIPS 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Why Adam Outperforms Gradient Descent on Language Models: A Heavy-Tailed Class Imbalance Problem
Robin Yadav, Frederik Kunstner, Mark Schmidt, Alberto Bietti
- NeurIPS 2023 Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone