Umar Syed

Researcher, Google

Joined

February 2017

Names

Umar Syed

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2011 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Jacob Abernethy

Present

PhD Advisor

Robert E. Schapire

Present

Coauthor

Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Multi-distribution Learning: From Worst-Case Optimality to Lexicographic Min-Max Optimality
Guanghui Wang, Umar Syed, Robert E. Schapire, Jacob Abernethy
- ALT 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Learning from Synthetic Data: Limitations of ERM
Kareem Amin, Alex Bie, Weiwei Kong, Umar Syed, Sergei Vassilvitskii
- ALT 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Clustering Improves Differentially Private Inference
Kareem Amin, Salman Avestimehr, Sara Babakniya, Alex Bie, Weiwei Kong, Natalia Ponomareva, Umar Syed
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Escaping Collapse: The Strength of Weak Data for Large Language Model Training
Kareem Amin, Sara Babakniya, Alex Bie, Weiwei Kong, Umar Syed, Sergei Vassilvitskii
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Escaping Collapse: The Strength of Weak Data for Large Language Model Training
Kareem Amin, Sara Babakniya, Alex Bie, Weiwei Kong, Umar Syed, Sergei Vassilvitskii
- SSI-FM Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Near-optimal algorithms for private estimation and sequential testing of collision probability
Robert Istvan Busa-Fekete, Umar Syed
- AISTATS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Lexicographic Optimization: Algorithms and Stability
Jacob D. Abernethy, Robert E. Schapire, Umar Syed
- AISTATS 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Assessing Web Fingerprinting Risk
Enrico Bacis, Igor Bilogrevic, Róbert Busa-Fekete, Asanka Herath, Antonio Sartori, Umar Syed
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Near-optimal algorithms for private estimation and sequential testing of collision probability
Robert Istvan Busa-Fekete, Umar Syed
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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