Publications

Algorithmic Optimality Guarantees for Nonsmooth \(\mathcal{H}_{\infty }\) Output-Feedback Policy Search
Ashkan Soleymani, and Patrick Jaillet
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2026
A Unified Framework for Statistical Testing of Invariance
Ashkan Soleymani*, Behrooz Tahmasebi*, Patrick Jaillet, and Stefanie Jegelka
ICML 2026 Workshop on Hypothesis Testing (HT @ ICML workshop), 2026
On Lipschitz Explosion in Deep Neural Networks with Normalization: Consequences for Optimization and Adversarial Robustness
Ashkan Soleymani, Reyhaneh Hosseinpourkhoshkbari, Hadi Daneshmand, and Patrick Jaillet
High-dimensional Learning Dynamics (HiLD @ ICML workshop), 2026
Efficient Learning and Symmetry Discovery under Exact Invariances
Ashkan Soleymani*, Behrooz Tahmasebi*, Patrick Jaillet, and Stefanie Jegelka
Annual Conference on Learning Theory 2026 (COLT), 2026
From Finite to Infinite Groups: A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Learning with Exact Invariances
Ashkan Soleymani*, Behrooz Tahmasebi*, Patrick Jaillet, and Stefanie Jegelka
Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeuReps @ NeurIPS workshop), 2025 (Oral Presentation)
Data Generation without Function Estimation
Hadi Daneshmand, Ashkan Soleymani
Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT @ NeurIPS workshop), 2025 (Oral Presentation)
Dynamics at the Frontiers of Optimization, Sampling, and Games (DynaFront @ NeurIPS workshop), 2025
Cautious Optimism: A Meta-Algorithm for Near-Constant Regret in General Games
Ashkan Soleymani, Georgios Piliouras, and Gabriele Farina
Twenty-Sixth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2025
Faster Rates for No-Regret Learning in General Games via Cautious Optimism
Ashkan Soleymani, Georgios Piliouras, and Gabriele Farina
The Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2025
Learning with Exact Invariances in Polynomial Time
Ashkan Soleymani*, Behrooz Tahmasebi*, Stefanie Jegelka, and Patrick Jaillet
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025 (Spotlight Presentation - Top 2.6% of Submissions)
Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL), Recent Spotlight Track, 2025
A Robust Kernel Statistical Test of Invariance: Detecting Subtle Asymmetries
Ashkan Soleymani*, Behrooz Tahmasebi*, Stefanie Jegelka, and Patrick Jaillet
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTAT), 2025 (Oral Presentation - Top 2% of Submissions)
Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL), Recent Spotlight Track, 2025
Learning Decision Policies with Instrumental Variables through Double Machine Learning
Daqian Shao, Ashkan Soleymani, Francesco Quinzan, Marta Kwiatkowska
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
Behrooz Tahmasebi, Ashkan Soleymani, Dara Bahri, Stefanie Jegelka, and Patrick Jaillet
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
High-dimensional Learning Dynamics: The Emergence of Structure and Reasoning (HiLD @ ICML workshop), 2024 (Best Paper Award)
Double Machine Learning Based Structure Identification from Temporal Data
Emmanouil Angelis, Francesco Quinzan, Ashkan Soleymani, Patrick Jaillet and Stefan Bauer
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025
On Scale-Invariant Sharpness Measures
Behrooz Tahmasebi, Ashkan Soleymani, Stefanie Jegelka, and Patrick Jaillet
Mathematics of Modern Machine Learning (M3L @ NeurIPS workshop), 2023
DRCFS: Doubly Robust Causal Feature Selection
Francesco Quinzan*, Ashkan Soleymani*, Patrick Jaillet, Cristian R. Rojas, and Stefan Bauer
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
Causal Feature Selection via Orthogonal Search
Ashkan Soleymani*, Anant Raj*, Michel Besserve, Stefan Bauer and Bernhard Schölkopf
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2022
Pyfectious: A probabilistic hierarchical simulator of infectious diseases and fine-grained control measures
Arash Mehrjo*, Ashkan Soleymani*, Amin Abyaneh, Samir Bhatt, Stefan Bauer and Bernhard Schölkopf
PLOS Computational Biology 19(1): e1010799, 2023
GeneDisco: A Benchmark for Experimental Design in Drug Discovery
Arash Mehrjou, Ashkan Soleymani, Andrew Jesson, Pascal Notin, Yarin Gal, Stefan Bauer, and Patrick Schwab
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022
Adaptive Experimental Design and Active Learning in the Real World (ReALML @ ICML workshop), 2022 (Spotlight Presentation)

Preprints and submissions

Breaking the 1/3 Barrier for Approximate Nash Equilibria in Symmetric Bimatrix Games
Ashkan Soleymani, Patrick Jaillet, and Gabriele Farina
Submitted (under review)
Settling the Support Complexity of Correlated Equilibria
Ashkan Soleymani, Patrick Jaillet, Gabriele Farina and Akbar Rafiey
Submitted (under review)
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking via Regularized Optimization: Hardness and Approximation
Ashkan Soleymani*, Behrooz Tahmasebi*, Reyhaneh Hosseinpourkhoshkbari, Tess Smidt, Patrick Jaillet, and Stefanie Jegelka.
Submitted (under review)
Exact-Form Regret and Conservative Correlated Equilibria
Ashkan Soleymani, Patrick Jaillet, and Gabriele Farina
Submitted (under review)
Tropical Gaussian Anticoncentration: Settling Optimal Instance-Dependent Bounds for Online Learning in Extensive-Form Games
Ashkan Soleymani*, Zhiyuan Fan*, Lillian j. Ratliff, Patrick Jaillet, and Gabriele Farina
Submitted (under review)
Homological Barriers to Stable Local Nash Dynamics in Quadratic Zero-Sum Games
Ashkan Soleymani, Gabriele Farina, Patrick Jaillet, and Georgios Piliouras
Submitted (under review)
Resolvent Ellipsoid for Minty Set Inclusions
Ashkan Soleymani, Gabriele Farina, and Patrick Jaillet
Submitted (under review)
Coverage Paths: A Selection-Safe Interface for Online Conformal Prediction
Ashkan Soleymani, Patrick Jaillet, and Gabriele Farina
Submitted (under review)
Double Machine Learning for Conditional Moment Restrictions: IV regression, Proximal Causal Learning and Beyond
Daqian Shao, Ashkan Soleymani, Francesco Quinzan, and Marta Kwiatkowska
arXiv:2506.14950, 2025
Physical Derivatives: Computing policy gradients by physical forward-propagation
Arash Mehrjou, Ashkan Soleymani, Stefan Bauer and Bernhard Schölkopf
arXiv:2201.05830, 2022
Federated Learning in Multi-Center Critical Care Research: A Systematic Case Study using the eICU Database
Arash Mehrjou*, Ashkan Soleymani*, Annika Buchholz, Jürgen Hetzel, Patrick Schwab and Stefan Bauer
arXiv:2204.09328, 2021
* denotes equal contributions.