Shay Moran
Alon, Caroline, Ann, Shay, and Ella
I am an Associate Professor at the Technion's Faculty of Mathematics. Additionally, I hold secondary affiliations with the Faculties of Computer Science and Data and Decision Sciences. I am also honored to be affiliated with Google Research in Tel Aviv.
My email is: smoran@technion.ac.il
Research interests
Mathematical problems that arise in computer science with a focus on combinatorial and geometric problems related to machine learning.
Research Group
Journal publications
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Accepted to American Mathematical Monthly (AMM) 2024
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Accepted to Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 2024
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SICOMP 2023 (conference version at STOC 2021)
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TheoretiCS 2023 (conference version at STOC 2021)
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Journal of the ACM, 2022
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American Mathematical Monthly (AMM) 2021
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The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2020
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Discrete & Computational Geometry (DCG) 2020
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Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019STOC 2021 (invited paper)
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Journal of the ACM, 2019
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Combinatorica, 2019
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The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2018
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Computational Complexity
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In "A Journey Through Discrete Mathematics: A Tribute to Jiri Matousek", 2017
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In a special issue for the 150th anniversary of Sbornik: Mathematics, 2017
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Journal of the ACM, 2016``Final Award for Outstanding Paper in the Field of Machine Learning''
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Algorithmica, 2016
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Order, Springer, 2015
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Distributed Computing, Springer, 2016
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The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2013
Conference publications
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NeurIPS 2024Universal Rates for Active LearningNeurIPS 2024Improved Sample Complexity for Multiclass PAC LearningNeurIPS 2024NeurIPS 2024NeurIPS 2024NeurIPS 2024FOCS 2024STOC 2024COLT 2024COLT 2024COLT 2024COLT 2024COLT 2024COLT 2024FOCS 2023NeurIPS 2023Multiclass Boosting: Simple and Intuitive Weak Learning CriteriaNeurIPS 2023A Trichotomy for Transductive LearningNeurIPS 2023NeurIPS 2023NeurIPS 2023Improper Multiclass BoostingCOLT 2023COLT 2023Universal Rates for Multiclass LearningCOLT 2023COLT 2023COLT 2023COLT 2023ICML 2023Universal Rates for Interactive LearningNeurIPS 2022Oral PresentationNeurIPS 2022Oral PresentationNeurIPS 2022FOCS 2022Invited to FOCS special issue of SICOMPInvited talk at TCS+ 2022COLT 2022ICML 2022UAI 2022Uniform Brackets, Containers, and Combinatorial Macbeath RegionsITCS 2022NeurIPS 2021Spotlight PresentationNeurIPS 2021FOCS 2021FOCS 2021COLT 2021Best Paper Runner-upCOLT 2021STOC 2021STOC 2021Invited and accepted to STOC special issue of SICOMPSTOC 2021Invited talk at TCS+ 2021Invited to HALG 2022ITCS 2021NeurIPS 2020NeurIPS 2020NeurIPS 2020NeurIPS 2020FOCS 2020Best Paper AwardInvited to JACMInvited talk at TCS+ 2020Plenary talk at TPDP 2020Invited to HALG 2021ICML 2020Plenary talk at TPDP 2020COLT 2020Best Paper AwardInvited to Journal of Mathematical Statistics and LearningInvited to HALG 2021COLT 2020, TPDP 2020CiE 2020NeurIPS 2019Spotlight PresentationNeurIPS 2019Spotlight PresentationNeurIPS 2019NeurIPS 2019COLT 2019COLT 2019COLT 2019ICALP 2019STOC 2019Plenary presentation at the "Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy 2018" workshopSoCG 2019Invited and accepted to a special issue of Discrete & Computational Geometry (DCG)ICALP 2018EC 2018STOC 2018Invited to STOC special issue of SICOMP (declined in favor of J. ACM)Invited talks at TCS+ 2018 and HALG 2019ALT 2018NIPS 2017Spotlight PresentationFOCS 2017STOC 2017Invited to HALG 2018NIPS 2016Full oral presentationALT 2016SIROCCO 2016ESA 2016MFCS 2016COLT 2016ESA 2015Teaching and compressing for low VC dimensionFOCS 2015Invited to FOCS special issue of SICOMP (declined in favor of J.ACM)The conference version combines two separate papers:RANDOM 2015ICALP 2014ITCS 2014Invited to a special issue of Algorithmica
Manuscripts
Theses
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Masters' thesis
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PhD thesis
Teaching (Outdated)
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Statistical learning and combinatorics:
UCSD
Lecturer, winter 2016 -
Communication Complexity (236518):
Computer Science faculty, Technion
Teaching Assistant: Spring 2015 -
Probability Theory (104222):
Mathematics faculty, Technion
Teaching Assistant: Winter 2014-2015 -
Analytical Methods in Combinatorics (106376):
Mathematics faculty, Technion
Teaching Assistant: Spring 2014 -
Logic and Set Theory (234293),
Computer Science Faculty, Technion
Teaching Assistant: Summer 2010, Winter 2013-2014 -
Data Structures I (234218),
Computer Science Faculty, Technion
Teaching Assistant: Winter 2012-2013 -
Algorithms and Data Structures (advanced course):
Computer Science Faculty, Saarland University
Teaching Assistant: WS 2011-2012 -
Programming Languages (234319), Computer Science Faculty, Technion
Teaching Assistant: Winter 2010-2011 -
Introduction to Computer Science
(234293), Computer Science Faculty, Technion
Teaching Assistant: Spring 2010