publications

Papers are arranged in reverse chronological order, according to the date they are submitted to the arXiv.

* denotes alphabetical ordering.

Submitted works

  1. Nuri Mert Vural, Alberto Bietti, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Denny Wu. Learning to Recall with Transformers Beyond Orthogonal Embeddings. (submitted), 2025.

Publications

  1. Gérard Ben Arous*, Murat A. Erdogdu*, Nuri Mert Vural*, Denny Wu*. Learning Quadratic Neural Networks in High Dimensions: SGD Dynamics and Scaling Laws. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 39 (NeurIPS), 2025.
  2. Nuri Mert Vural, Murat A. Erdogdu. Pruning is Optimal for Learning Sparse Features in High-Dimensions. 37th Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2024.
  3. Nuri Mert Vural, Lu Yu, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Stanislav Volgushev, Murat A. Erdogdu. Mirror Descent Strikes Again: Optimal Stochastic Convex Optimization under Infinite Noise Variance. 35th Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2022.
  4. Nuri Mert Vural, Fatih İlhan, Selim Yılmaz, Salih Ergüt, Süleyman S. Kozat. Achieving Online Regression Performance of LSTMs with Simple RNNs. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022.
  5. Nuri Mert Vural, Salih Ergüt, Süleyman S. Kozat. An Efficient and Effective Second-Order Training Algorithm for LSTM-based Adaptive Learning. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2021.
  6. Nuri Mert Vural, Hakan Gökçesu, Kaan Gökçesu, Süleyman S. Kozat. Minimax Optimal Algorithms for Adversarial Bandit Problem with Multiple Plays. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2019.
  7. Nuri Mert Vural, Yiğit Yoleri, and Hamdi Torun. On Feasibility of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Noninvasive Blood Glucose Measurements. SPIE Photonics West 2019 (20 February 2019).