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20142026
most citedA Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism: Experimental Results and Design Lessons

93 citations · 199 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.LG2026

Gradient Under Microscope: Benchmarking Resource Utilization of Memory-Efficient Gradient Computation Methods

Sarthak Mahapatra, Zihan Zhou, Khatoon Khedri +2

AI training's rising resource intensity is straining electricity supplies and carbon budgets, motivating systematic study of memory-efficient training on constrained hardware. We b…

cs.LG2026

NeuroViz: Real-time Interactive Visualization of Forward and Backward Passes in Neural Network Training

Tanvi Sharma, Reza Rawassizadeh

Training neural networks is difficult to interpret, particularly for newcomers. We introduce NeuroViz, an interactive visualization tool that supports real-time exploration of full…

cs.CV2026

Interpretable Prostate Cancer Detection using a Small Cohort of MRI Images

Vahid Monfared, Mohammad Hadi Gharib, Ali Sabri +4

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of mortality in men, yet interpretation of T2-weighted prostate MRI remains challenging due to subtle and heterogeneous lesions. We developed an…

cs.LG2025

Pruning and Quantization Impact on Graph Neural Networks

Khatoon Khedri, Reza Rawassizadeh, Qifu Wen +1

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are known to operate with high accuracy on learning from graph-structured data, but they suffer from high computational and resource costs. Neural netw…

cs.LG2025

GradES: Significantly Faster Training in Transformers with Gradient-Based Early Stopping

Qifu Wen, Xi Zeng, Zihan Zhou +4

Early stopping monitors global validation loss and halts all parameter updates simultaneously, which is computationally costly for large transformers due to the extended time requi…

cs.SD2025

TinyMusician: On-Device Music Generation with Knowledge Distillation and Mixed Precision Quantization

Hainan Wang, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Reza Rawassizadeh

The success of the generative model has gained unprecedented attention in the music generation area. Transformer-based architectures have set new benchmarks for model performance.…

cs.LG2025

Attentions Under the Microscope: A Comparative Study of Resource Utilization for Variants of Self-Attention

Zhengyu Tian, Anantha Padmanaban Krishna Kumar, Hemant Krishnakumar +1

As large language models (LLMs) and visual language models (VLMs) grow in scale and application, attention mechanisms have become a central computational bottleneck due to their hi…

cs.HC2025

From Clicks to Conversations: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Conversational Agents in Statistical Analysis

Qifu Wen, Prishita Kochhar, Sherif Zeyada +2

The rapid proliferation of data science forced different groups of individuals with different backgrounds to adapt to statistical analysis. We hypothesize that conversational agent…

cs.SE2025

Analyzing the Resource Utilization of Lambda Functions on Mobile Devices: Case Studies on Kotlin and Swift

Chibundom U. Ejimuda, Gaston Longhitano, Reza Rawassizadeh

With billions of smartphones in use globally, the daily time spent on these devices contributes significantly to overall electricity consumption. Given this scale, even minor reduc…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

The Impact of Quantization and Pruning on Deep Reinforcement Learning Models

Heng Lu, Mehdi Alemi, Reza Rawassizadeh

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved remarkable success across various domains, such as video games, robotics, and, recently, large language models. However, the computat…

cs.DB2024★ 1 cited

Can LLMs substitute SQL? Comparing Resource Utilization of Querying LLMs versus Traditional Relational Databases

Xiang Zhang, Khatoon Khedri, Reza Rawassizadeh

Large Language Models (LLMs) can automate or substitute different types of tasks in the software engineering process. This study evaluates the resource utilization and accuracy of…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Augmenting Vision-Based Human Pose Estimation with Rotation Matrix

Milad Vazan, Fatemeh Sadat Masoumi, Ruizhi Ou +1

Fitness applications are commonly used to monitor activities within the gym, but they often fail to automatically track indoor activities inside the gym. This study proposes a mode…

cs.SD2023★ 5 cited

A Survey of AI Music Generation Tools and Models

Yueyue Zhu, Jared Baca, Banafsheh Rekabdar +1

In this work, we provide a comprehensive survey of AI music generation tools, including both research projects and commercialized applications. To conduct our analysis, we classifi…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Beta-Rank: A Robust Convolutional Filter Pruning Method For Imbalanced Medical Image Analysis

Morteza Homayounfar, Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam, Reza Rawassizadeh +1

As deep neural networks include a high number of parameters and operations, it can be a challenge to implement these models on devices with limited computational resources. Despite…

cs.CV2022

LightDepth: A Resource Efficient Depth Estimation Approach for Dealing with Ground Truth Sparsity via Curriculum Learning

Fatemeh Karimi, Amir Mehrpanah, Reza Rawassizadeh

Advances in neural networks enable tackling complex computer vision tasks such as depth estimation of outdoor scenes at unprecedented accuracy. Promising research has been done on…

cs.HC2022★ 2 cited

Longitudinal Analysis of Heart Rate and Physical Activity Collected from Smartwatches

Fatemeh Karimi, Zohre Amoozgar, Reza Reiazi +2

Smartwatches (SWs) can continuously and autonomously monitor vital signs, including heart rates and physical activities involving wrist movement. The monitoring capability of SWs h…

cs.CL2022

Speeding Up Question Answering Task of Language Models via Inverted Index

Xiang Ji, Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz, Elaheh Momeni +1

Natural language processing applications, such as conversational agents and their question-answering capabilities, are widely used in the real world. Despite the wide popularity of…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

ODSearch: Fast and Resource Efficient On-device Natural Language Search for Fitness Trackers' Data

Reza Rawassizadeh, Yi Rong

Mobile and wearable technologies have promised significant changes to the healthcare industry. Although cutting-edge communication and cloud-based technologies have allowed for the…

cs.LG2021★ 24 cited

FEDZIP: A Compression Framework for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning

Amirhossein Malekijoo, Mohammad Javad Fadaeieslam, Hanieh Malekijou +3

Federated Learning marks a turning point in the implementation of decentralized machine learning (especially deep learning) for wireless devices by protecting users' privacy and sa…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

Exploiting BERT to improve aspect-based sentiment analysis performance on Persian language

H. Jafarian, A. H. Taghavi, A. Javaheri +1

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a more detailed task in sentiment analysis, by identifying opinion polarity toward a certain aspect in a text. This method is attracting m…

cs.HC2020★ 1 cited

Immediate or Reflective?: Effects of Real-timeFeedback on Group Discussions over Videochat

Samiha Samrose, Reza Rawassizadeh, Ehsan Hoque

Having a group discussion with the members holding conflicting viewpoints is difficult. It is especially challenging for machine-mediated discussions in which the subtle social cue…

cs.LG2020★ 10 cited

SEFR: A Fast Linear-Time Classifier for Ultra-Low Power Devices

Hamidreza Keshavarz, Mohammad Saniee Abadeh, Reza Rawassizadeh

A fundamental challenge for running machine learning algorithms on battery-powered devices is the time and energy limitations, as these devices have constraints on resources. There…

eess.IV2020★ 42 cited

CovidCTNet: An Open-Source Deep Learning Approach to Identify Covid-19 Using CT Image

Tahereh Javaheri, Morteza Homayounfar, Zohreh Amoozgar +19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is highly contagious with limited treatment options. Early and accurate diagnosis of Covid-19 is crucial in reducing the spread of the disease a…

cs.CY2019

Public vs Media Opinion on Robots

Alireza Javaheri, Navid Moghadamnejad, Hamidreza Keshavarz +4

Fast proliferation of robots in people's everyday lives during recent years calls for a profound examination of public consensus, which is the ultimate determinant of the future of…