Borna Khodabandeh

Hi! I am Borna Khodabandeh, I am currently an independent researcher, and a prospective graduate student. I have received my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics from Sharif University of Technology.

I aim to apply rigorous theoretical and mathematical approaches in crucial areas of machine learning, that have practical value. As I am still exploring, I am broadly interested in generative modelling, adversarial robustness and optimization, reinforcement learning, and understanding learning systems through the lens of information theory, statistics and optimization theory.

Research Interests

• Mathematical foundations of machine learning and optimization
• Adversarial robustness and strategic behavior in learning systems
• Information theory and statistical learning, and statistical physics in machine learning
• Reinforcement learning and online decision-making
• Generative modelling, epecially vector field generative models (diffusion models, flow models, etc.)

News

• 2025-09-18: LORE accepted to NeurIPS 2025 (to appear)
• 2025-05-24: Released preprint on LORE (arXiv)
• 2025-01-22: Aligning Visual Contrastive learning models via Preference Optimization accepted to ICLR 2025
• 2024-11-12: Released preprint on Aligning Visual Contrastive learning models via Preference Optimization (arXiv)
• 2024-10-01: Completed EPFL E3 internship with Prof. Michael Unser