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
Co-authors: Nikhil Vyas, Depen Morwani, Rosie Zhao, Itai Shapira, David Brandfonbrener, Lucas Janson, Sham Kakade, 2024 [Arxiv] Under review for ICLR 2025
A New Perspective on Shampoo’s Preconditioner
Co-authors: Depen Morwani, Nikhil Vyas, Eran Malach, Sham M. Kakade, Lucas Janson, 2024 [Arxiv] Under review for ICLR 2025
Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
Co-authors: Luise Ge, Daniel Halpern, Evi Micha, Ariel D. Procaccia, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Junlin Wu, 2024 [Arxiv] NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight)
Bias Detection Via Signaling
Co-authors: Yiling Chen, Tao Lin, Ariel D. Procaccia, Aaditya Ramdas, 2024 [Arxiv] NeurIPS 2024
Learning Social Welfare Functions
Co-authors: Kanad Shrikar Pardeshi, Ariel D. Procaccia, Aarti Singh, 2024 [Arxiv] NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight)
Generative Social Choice
Co-authors: Sara Fish, Paul Gölz, David C. Parkes, Ariel D. Procaccia, Gili Rusak, Manuel Wüthrich, 2023 [Arxiv] [OpenAI Blog]
2024 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2024)
Optimal Engagement-Diversity Tradeoffs in Social Media
Co-authors: Fabian Baumann, Daniel Halpern, Ariel D. Procaccia, Iyad Rahwan, Manuel Wuthrich, 2023 [ACM] [Arxiv]
2024 ACM Web Conference