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most citedLearning to Control Local Search for Combinatorial Optimization

15 citations · 19 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CV2026

Rethinking the Fully Hyperbolic Vision Transformer in Polar Coordinates

Ahmad Bdeir, Niels Landwehr

Hyperbolic space can embed intrinsic hierarchies in data with low distortion due to the exponential growth of volume with distance from the origin. However, current Lorentz transfo…

cs.LG2026

LAtte: Hyperbolic Lorentz Attention for Cross-Subject EEG Classification

Ahmad Bdeir, Johannes Burchert, Tom Hanika +2

Electroencephalogram (EEG) classification plays a key role in medical diagnosis and brain-computer interfaces, but remains challenging due to low signal-to-noise ratios and high in…

cs.CV2026

HexFormer: Hyperbolic Vision Transformer with Exponential Map Aggregation

Haya Alyoussef, Ahmad Bdeir, Diego Coello de Portugal Mecke +3

Data across modalities such as images, text, and graphs often contains hierarchical and relational structures, which are challenging to model within Euclidean geometry. Hyperbolic…

cs.CV2024

Robust Hyperbolic Learning with Curvature-Aware Optimization

Ahmad Bdeir, Johannes Burchert, Lars Schmidt-Thieme +1

Hyperbolic deep learning has become a growing research direction in computer vision due to the unique properties afforded by the alternate embedding space. The negative curvature a…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Fully Hyperbolic Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer Vision

Ahmad Bdeir, Kristian Schwethelm, Niels Landwehr

Real-world visual data exhibit intrinsic hierarchical structures that can be represented effectively in hyperbolic spaces. Hyperbolic neural networks (HNNs) are a promising approac…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Attention, Filling in The Gaps for Generalization in Routing Problems

Ahmad Bdeir, Jonas K. Falkner, Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Machine Learning (ML) methods have become a useful tool for tackling vehicle routing problems, either in combination with popular heuristics or as standalone models. However, curre…

cs.LG2022★ 15 cited

Learning to Control Local Search for Combinatorial Optimization

Jonas K. Falkner, Daniela Thyssens, Ahmad Bdeir +1

Combinatorial optimization problems are encountered in many practical contexts such as logistics and production, but exact solutions are particularly difficult to find and usually…

cs.LG2021

RP-DQN: An application of Q-Learning to Vehicle Routing Problems

Ahmad Bdeir, Simon Boeder, Tim Dernedde +3

In this paper we present a new approach to tackle complex routing problems with an improved state representation that utilizes the model complexity better than previous methods. We…