# NeurIPS 2025 presentations from our group members November 29, 2025 Check the NeurIPS 2025 Presentations from our group! ###### Main Meeting 1\. **Don't be lazy: CompleteP enables compute-efficient deep transformers** Nolan Dey · Bin Zhang · Lorenzo Noci · Mufan Li · Blake Bordelon · Shane Bergsma · Cengiz Pehlevan · Boris Hanin · Joel Hestness Exhibit Hall C,D,E #4000 Wed 3 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST 2\. **An Analytical Theory of Spectral Bias in the Learning Dynamics of Diffusion Models** (Spotlight) Binxu Wang · Cengiz Pehlevan Exhibit Hall C,D,E #2904 Fri 5 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST 3\. **A solvable model of learning generative diffusion: theory and insights** Hugo Cui · Cengiz Pehlevan · Yue Lu Exhibit Hall C,D,E #3011 Thu 4 Dec 11 a.m. PST — 2 p.m. PST 4\. **Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism** (Spotlight) Mete Erdogan · Cengiz Pehlevan · Alper Erdogan Exhibit Hall C,D,E #2006 Wed 3 Dec 11 a.m. PST — 2 p.m. PST **Workshops** 5\. **Perspective: Summary Statistics of Learning** Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth · Blake Bordelon · Cengiz Pehlevan UniReps 6\. **Pretrain-Test Task Alignment Model for In-Context Learning by Linear Attention** Mary I. Letey · Yue M. Lu · Cengiz Pehlevan What Can(’t) Transformers Do? 7\. **A Simplified Analysis of SGD for Linear Regression with Weight Averaging** Alexandru Meterez · Depen Morwani · Costin-Andrei Oncescu · Jingfeng Wu · Cengiz Pehlevan · Sham Kakade OPT 2025 8\. **How does training shape the Riemannian geometry of neural network representations?** (Oral) Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth · Sheng Yang · Julian A. Rubinfien · Cengiz Pehlevan NeurReps 2025 9\. **Persistent Homology Distances for Comparing Disease-Filtered Structural Connectomes** Hamza T. Chaudhry · Vineet R. Tiruvadi · Cengiz Pehlevan · Michael D. Fox · Kanaka Rajan NeurReps 2025 10\. **Is the Brain Mechanistically Identifiable?** (Invited Talk) Cengiz Pehlevan Data on the Brain & Mind Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)