I’m Itai
I'm a CS graduate student at Harvard University, supported by the Nicole A. Chen and Karina A. Chen Graduate Student Research Fellowship. I am privileged to be advised by Prof. Ariel D. Procaccia.
Research
SOAP: Improving and Stabilizing Shampoo using Adam
Nikhil Vyas, Depen Morwani, Rosie Zhao, Itai Shapira, David Brandfonbrener, Lucas Janson, Sham Kakade
NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2024), under review for ICLR 2025
Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
(α,β) Luise Ge, Daniel Halpern, Evi Micha, Ariel D. Procaccia, Itai Shapira, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Junlin Wu
NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight)
Learning Social Welfare Functions
Kanad Shrikar Pardeshi, Itai Shapira, Ariel D. Procaccia, Aarti Singh
NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight)
A New Perspective on Shampoo’s Preconditioner
Depen Morwani, Itai Shapira, Nikhil Vyas, Eran Malach, Sham M. Kakade, Lucas Janson
Under review for ICLR 2025
Bias Detection Via Signaling
(α,β) Yiling Chen, Tao Lin, Ariel D. Procaccia, Aaditya Ramdas, Itai Shapira
NeurIPS 2024
Generative Social Choice
(α,β) Sara Fish, Paul Gölz, David C. Parkes, Ariel D. Procaccia, Gili Rusak, Itai Shapira, Manuel Wüthrich
EC 2024
Optimal Engagement-Diversity Tradeoffs in Social Media
(α,β) Fabian Baumann, Daniel Halpern, Ariel D. Procaccia, Iyad Rahwan, Itai Shapira, Manuel Wuthrich
2024 ACM Web Conference
Expressivity of Shallow and Deep Neural Networks for Polynomial Approximation
Itai Shapira
2023