Glocal Smoothness: Line search and adaptive step sizes can help in theory too!
C. Fox, A. Mishkin, S. Vaswani, M. Schmidt. "Glocal Smoothness: Line search and adaptive step sizes can help in theory too!". TMLR, 2026
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
Work experience
- Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
- Github University
- Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
- Supervisor: The Users
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3
Publications
Flatland: The Adventures of Gradient Descent with Large Step Sizes
L. Galli, C. Fox, W. Bartolomaeus, M. Schmidt, H. Rauhut. "Flatland: The Adventures of Gradient Descent with Large Step Sizes". ICML, 2026
DRBench: A Realistic Benchmark for Enterprise Deep Research
A. Abaskohi, T. Chen, M. Muñoz-Mármol, C. Fox, A. V. Ramesh, É. Marcotte, X. H. Lù, N. Chapados, S. Gella, C. Pal, A. Drouin, I. H. Laradji. "DRBench: A Realistic Benchmark for Enterprise Deep Research". ICLR, 2026
Upper and lower memory capacity bounds of transformers for next-token prediction
L. Madden, C. Fox, C. Thrampoulidis. "Next-token Prediction Capacity: General Upper Bounds and a Lower Bound for Transformers". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025
Nonmonotone Line Searches Operate at the Edge of Stability
C. Fox, L. Galli, M. Schmidt, H. Rauhut. "Nonmonotone Line Searches Operate at the Edge of Stability". NeurIPS OPT Workshop, 2024
Study of the Edge of Stability in Deep Learning
C. Fox. "A Study of the Edge of Stability in Deep Learning". Masters Thesis, 2023
Deep Learning of Immune Cell Differentiation
A. Maslova, R. N. Ramirez, K. Ma, H. Schmutz, C. Wang, C. Fox, B. Ng, C. Benoist, S. Mostafavi, Immunological Genome Project. "Deep Learning of Immune Cell Differentiation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Talks
Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK
Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley CA, USA
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, California
Teaching
Service and leadership
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