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

Market Power and Strategic Drops: An Approach to Stable Matching Mechanisms

Itai Shapira

2023