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20192026
most citedRobust Variational Autoencoder

15 citations · 38 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CV2026

Proof-of-Perception: Certified Tool-Using Multimodal Reasoning with Compositional Conformal Guarantees

Arya Fayyazi, Haleh Akrami

We present Proof-of-Perception (PoP), a tool-using framework that casts multimodal reasoning as an executable graph with explicit reliability guarantees. Each perception or logic n…

cs.CV2025

Modeling and Reversing Brain Lesions Using Diffusion Models

Omar Zamzam, Haleh Akrami, Anand Joshi +1

Brain lesions are abnormalities or injuries in brain tissue that are often detectable using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which reveals structural changes in the affected areas…

eess.IV2024

Generalizable Representation Learning for fMRI-based Neurological Disorder Identification

Wenhui Cui, Haleh Akrami, Anand A. Joshi +1

Despite the impressive advances achieved using deep learning for functional brain activity analysis, the heterogeneity of functional patterns and the scarcity of imaging data still…

eess.IV2023★ 4 cited

Meta Transfer of Self-Supervised Knowledge: Foundation Model in Action for Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Prediction

Wenhui Cui, Haleh Akrami, Ganning Zhao +2

Despite the impressive advancements achieved using deep-learning for functional brain activity analysis, the heterogeneity of functional patterns and scarcity of imaging data still…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Learning A Disentangling Representation For PU Learning

Omar Zamzam, Haleh Akrami, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi +1

In this paper, we address the problem of learning a binary (positive vs. negative) classifier given Positive and Unlabeled data commonly referred to as PU learning. Although rudime…

cs.LG2023

Beta quantile regression for robust estimation of uncertainty in the presence of outliers

Haleh Akrami, Omar Zamzam, Anand Joshi +2

Quantile Regression (QR) can be used to estimate aleatoric uncertainty in deep neural networks and can generate prediction intervals. Quantifying uncertainty is particularly import…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Toward Improved Generalization: Meta Transfer of Self-supervised Knowledge on Graphs

Wenhui Cui, Haleh Akrami, Anand A. Joshi +1

Despite the remarkable success achieved by graph convolutional networks for functional brain activity analysis, the heterogeneity of functional patterns and the scarcity of imaging…

cs.SD2022

Speech MOS multi-task learning and rater bias correction

Haleh Akrami, Hannes Gamper

Perceptual speech quality is an important performance metric for teleconferencing applications. The mean opinion score (MOS) is standardized for the perceptual evaluation of speech…

cs.CV2022

Learning From Positive and Unlabeled Data Using Observer-GAN

Omar Zamzam, Haleh Akrami, Richard Leahy

The problem of learning from positive and unlabeled data (A.K.A. PU learning) has been studied in a binary (i.e., positive versus negative) classification setting, where the input…

eess.IV2022

Learning from imperfect training data using a robust loss function: application to brain image segmentation

Haleh Akrami, Wenhui Cui, Anand A Joshi +1

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in MRI medical image analysis and is often the first and the most critical step in many clinical applications. In brain MRI analysis…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Semi-supervised Learning using Robust Loss

Wenhui Cui, Haleh Akrami, Anand A. Joshi +1

The amount of manually labeled data is limited in medical applications, so semi-supervised learning and automatic labeling strategies can be an asset for training deep neural netwo…

cs.LG2021

Deep Quantile Regression for Uncertainty Estimation in Unsupervised and Supervised Lesion Detection

Haleh Akrami, Anand Joshi, Sergul Aydore +1

Despite impressive state-of-the-art performance on a wide variety of machine learning tasks, deep learning methods can produce over-confident predictions, particularly with limited…

eess.SP2020

fMRI-Kernel Regression: A Kernel-based Method for Pointwise Statistical Analysis of rs-fMRI for Population Studies

Anand A. Joshi, Soyoung Choi, Haleh Akrami +1

Due to the spontaneous nature of resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) signals, cross-subject comparison and therefore, group studies of rs-fMRI are challenging. Most existing group compari…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Addressing Variance Shrinkage in Variational Autoencoders using Quantile Regression

Haleh Akrami, Anand A. Joshi, Sergul Aydore +1

Estimation of uncertainty in deep learning models is of vital importance, especially in medical imaging, where reliance on inference without taking into account uncertainty could l…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Robust Variational Autoencoder for Tabular Data with Beta Divergence

Haleh Akrami, Sergul Aydore, Richard M. Leahy +1

We propose a robust variational autoencoder with divergence for tabular data (RTVAE) with mixed categorical and continuous features. Variational autoencoders (VAE) and their va…

cs.CV2019★ 5 cited

A Pre-defined Sparse Kernel Based Convolution for Deep CNNs

Souvik Kundu, Saurav Prakash, Haleh Akrami +2

The high demand for computational and storage resources severely impede the deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in limited-resource devices. Recent CNN architec…

stat.ML2019★ 15 cited

Robust Variational Autoencoder

Haleh Akrami, Anand A. Joshi, Jian Li +2

Machine learning methods often need a large amount of labeled training data. Since the training data is assumed to be the ground truth, outliers can severely degrade learned repres…