Connall Garrod
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
The Implicit Bias of Depth: From Neural Collapse to Softmax Codes, Connall Garrod, Jonathan P. Keating & Christos Thrampoulidis. Accepted at International Conference of Machine Learning 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23087
Unifying Low Dimensional Spectra in Deep Learning, Connall Garrod & Jonathan P. Keating. Accepted at International Conference of Machine Learning 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06106
The Persistence of Neural Collapse Despite Low-Rank Bias, Connall Garrod & Jonathan P. Keating. Accepted at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025. https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/119425
- DPhil Student working on Applications of Random Matrix Theory to Machine Learning
- Supervised by Jon Keating
Neural Collapse, Neural Network Hessian Spectra
Charles Coulson Scholarship 2023 - Present
Good Ventures Foundation Scholarship 2022-23
Chubb Foundation Scholarship 2016-19