Umut Simsekli

Research Faculty, INRIA

Joined

September 2017

Names

Umut Simsekli

Emails

****@telecom-paristech.fr (Confirmed)

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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****@inria.fr (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Faculty

INRIA (inria.fr)

2020 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

A. Taylan Cemgil

2010 – 2015

Expertise

Deep Learning Theory

2018 – Present

Markov Chain Monte Carlo

2010 – Present

Publications

The surprising agreement between convex optimization theory and learning-rate scheduling for large model training
Adrien Taylor, Fabian Schaipp, Alexander Hägele, Umut Simsekli, Francis Bach
- International conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- Readers: Everyone
On the Interaction of Compressibility and Adversarial Robustness
Melih Barsbey, Antônio H. Ribeiro, Umut Simsekli, Tolga Birdal
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Stability, Complexity and Data-Dependent Worst-Case Generalization Bounds
Mario Tuci, Benjamin Dupuis, Lennart Bastian, Nassir Navab, Tolga Birdal, Umut Simsekli
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
On the Interaction of Compressibility and Adversarial Robustness
Melih Barsbey, Antônio H. Ribeiro, Umut Simsekli, Tolga Birdal
- NeurIPS 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Tracking the Median of Gradients with a Stochastic Proximal Point Method
Fabian Schaipp, Guillaume Garrigos, Umut Simsekli, Robert M. Gower
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Algorithm- and Data-Dependent Generalization Bounds for Diffusion Models
Benjamin Dupuis, Dario Shariatian, Maxime Haddouche, Alain Oliviero Durmus, Umut Simsekli
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Surprising Agreement Between Convex Optimization Theory and Learning-Rate Scheduling for Large Model Training
Fabian Schaipp, Alexander Hägele, Adrien Taylor, Umut Simsekli, Francis Bach
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Heavy-Tailed Diffusion with Denoising Levy Probabilistic Models
Dario Shariatian, Umut Simsekli, Alain Oliviero Durmus
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A PAC-Bayesian Link Between Generalisation and Flat Minima
Maxime Haddouche, Paul Viallard, Umut Simsekli, Benjamin Guedj
- ALT 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Piecewise deterministic generative models
Andrea Bertazzi, Dario Shariatian, Umut Simsekli, Eric Moulines, Alain Oliviero Durmus
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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