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Hi! I’m Dhruva, a fourth-year physics graduate student at UC Berkeley. I’m interested in the learning mechanisms of systems that learn from an external signal, and I study deep neural networks as a scientifically-accessible model of such systems. I’m especially interested the large-learning-rate phenomena associated with feature learning and I hope to understand why deep learning is more sample-efficient than classical machine learning techniques, like kernel machines. In my free time, I enjoy cooking for friends, playing chess, messing around with synthesizers, watercoloring, and going on long walks.
news
| Sep 2, 2024 | I won a one-year fellowship from Google! |
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| Apr 30, 2024 | My tutorial deriving the lazy (NTK) and rich (\(\mu\)P) regimes is on arxiv, check it out! |
| Jan 16, 2024 | Our paper showing that More Is Better in modern ML will be at ICLR 2024 :) |
| May 29, 2023 | Our paper explaining generalization in kernel machines was accepted in TMLR! |
| May 6, 2022 |
I won the Teaching Effectiveness Award!  WOO!!!!
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