Aniket Das

About Me

I am a first year PhD student at Stanford CS. Prior to this, I was a Pre-Doctoral Researcher at Google DeepMind. Before that, I was a dazed and confused undergrad at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where I double majored in Electrical Engineering and Math.

Research

I’m broadly interested in the design and analysis of algorithms by applying ideas from probability and geometry. Specific interests include the analysis of Markov Chains, complexity of statistical inference, continuous optimization and Wasserstein Gradient Flows.

News

• [Sep. 2024] Started grad school at Stanford.
• [Nov. 2023] Talk at the MSR-IISc Theory Seminar on optimal linear time streaming algorithms for heavy tailed statistics
• [Mar. 2024] Talk at FLAIR Seminar, EPFL on analyzing sampling as optimization on the space of measures
• [Nov. 2023] Talk at the MSR-IISc Theory Seminar on analyzing sampling through the lens of optimization.
• [Jul. 2022] Joined Google DeepMind as a Predoc.
• [Jun. 2022] Finished undergrad at IIT Kanpur with a double major in EE and Math.

Selected Publications

• Near-Optimal Streaming Heavy-Tailed Statistical Estimation with Clipped SGD
  with Dheeraj Nagaraj, Soumyabrata Pal, Arun Suggala and Prateek Varshney
  NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

• Provably Fast Finite-Particle Variants of SVGD via Virtual Particle Stochastic Approximation
  with Dheeraj Nagaraj
  Spotlight at NeurIPS 2023 [Paper]
  Oral Presentation at OTML Workshop, NeurIPS 2023

• Utilising the CLT Structure in Stochastic Gradient based Sampling : Improved Analysis and Faster Algorithms
  with Dheeraj Nagaraj and Anant Raj
  COLT 2023 [Paper]

• Near Optimal Heteroscedastic Regression with Symbiotic Learning
  with Dheeraj Baby, Dheeraj Nagaraj and Praneeth Netrapalli
  COLT 2023 [Paper]

• Sampling without Replacement Leads to Faster Rates in Finite-Sum Minimax Optimization
  with Bernhard Schölkopf and Michael Muehlebach
  NeurIPS 2022 [Paper]

Service

• Reviewer : NeurIPS, AISTATS
• Co-ordinator : Special Interest Group in Machine Learning, IIT Kanpur
• Undergrad Mentor : Programming Club, IIT Kanpur and Stamatics (Math Club), IIT Kanpur

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