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most citedFirmCore Decomposition of Multilayer Networks

29 citations · 94 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.CL2026

Titan-Llama: Retrofitting Pre-trained LLMs with External Neural Memory Modules

Sarah Pan, Ali Behrouz

Transformers are efficient to pre-train at scale because attention permits parallel computation across sequence positions, but long-context inference requires increasingly large KV…

cs.CL2026

Self-Preservation in Language Models

Dongkyu Cho, Rumi Chunara, Ali Behrouz

Continual learning (CL) seeks to adapt pretrained models while preserving prior capabilities. Yet the tasks supplied for preservation cover only part of what a model knows, while f…

cs.LG2026

Proteus: Incremental Memory Activation for Long-Context Sequence Modeling

Reza Bayat, Ali Behrouz, Vahab Mirrokni +1

The quadratic cost of attention-based sequence models for long contexts has motivated a growing line of research on memory-based models that can compress context into a compact sta…

cs.CV2026

Online Neural Space Time Memory for Dynamic Novel View Synthesis

Baback Elmieh, Lynn Tsai, Zeman Li +8

Online novel view synthesis from multi-view streaming videos faces a fundamental trade-off: maintaining a persistent, long-horizon memory to reconstruct temporarily occluded region…

cs.LG2026

Language Models Need Sleep: Learning to Self-Modify and Consolidate Memories

Ali Behrouz, Farnoosh Hashemi, Adel Javanmard +1

The past few decades have witnessed significant advances in the design of machine learning algorithms, from early studies on task-specific shallow models to more general deep Large…

cs.LG2026

Tapered Language Models

Reza Bayat, Ali Behrouz, Aaron Courville

Modern language models, including transformer, recurrent, and memory-based variants, share a common chassis: a stack of identical layers in which parameters are allocated uniformly…

cs.LG2026

Memory Caching: RNNs with Growing Memory

Ali Behrouz, Zeman Li, Yuan Deng +3

Transformers have been established as the de-facto backbones for most recent advances in sequence modeling, mainly due to their growing memory capacity that scales with the context…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning Architectures

Ali Behrouz, Meisam Razaviyayn, Peilin Zhong +1

Despite the recent progresses, particularly in developing Language Models, there are fundamental challenges and unanswered questions about how such models can continually learn/mem…

cs.LG2025

Trellis: Learning to Compress Key-Value Memory in Attention Models

Mahdi Karami, Ali Behrouz, Praneeth Kacham +1

Transformers, while powerful, suffer from quadratic computational complexity and the ever-growing Key-Value (KV) cache of the attention mechanism. This paper introduces Trellis, a…

cs.LG2025

MS-SSM: A Multi-Scale State Space Model for Efficient Sequence Modeling

Mahdi Karami, Ali Behrouz, Peilin Zhong +2

State-space models (SSMs) have recently attention as an efficient alternative to computationally expensive attention-based models for sequence modeling. They rely on linear recurre…

cs.LG2025

TNT: Improving Chunkwise Training for Test-Time Memorization

Zeman Li, Ali Behrouz, Yuan Deng +5

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with deep test-time memorization modules, such as Titans and TTT, represent a promising, linearly-scaling paradigm distinct from Transformers. Whil…

cs.LG2025

Hydra: Dual Exponentiated Memory for Multivariate Time Series Analysis

Asal Meskin, Alireza Mirrokni, Ali Najar +1

In recent years, effectively modeling multivariate time series has gained significant popularity, mainly due to its wide range of applications, ranging from healthcare to financial…

cs.CL2025

ATLAS: Learning to Optimally Memorize the Context at Test Time

Ali Behrouz, Zeman Li, Praneeth Kacham +5

Transformers have been established as the most popular backbones in sequence modeling, mainly due to their effectiveness in in-context retrieval tasks and the ability to learn at s…

cs.LG2025

It's All Connected: A Journey Through Test-Time Memorization, Attentional Bias, Retention, and Online Optimization

Ali Behrouz, Meisam Razaviyayn, Peilin Zhong +1

Designing efficient and effective architectural backbones has been in the core of research efforts to enhance the capability of foundation models. Inspired by the human cognitive p…

cs.LG2024

Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time

Ali Behrouz, Peilin Zhong, Vahab Mirrokni

Over more than a decade there has been an extensive research effort on how to effectively utilize recurrent models and attention. While recurrent models aim to compress the data in…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Best of Both Worlds: Advantages of Hybrid Graph Sequence Models

Ali Behrouz, Ali Parviz, Mahdi Karami +3

Modern sequence models (e.g., Transformers, linear RNNs, etc.) emerged as dominant backbones of recent deep learning frameworks, mainly due to their efficiency, representational po…

cs.SI2024★ 1 cited

A Unified Core Structure in Multiplex Networks: From Finding the Densest Subgraph to Modeling User Engagement

Farnoosh Hashemi, Ali Behrouz

In many complex systems, the interactions between objects span multiple aspects. Multiplex networks are accurate paradigms to model such systems, where each edge is associated with…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Chimera: Effectively Modeling Multivariate Time Series with 2-Dimensional State Space Models

Ali Behrouz, Michele Santacatterina, Ramin Zabih

Modeling multivariate time series is a well-established problem with a wide range of applications from healthcare to financial markets. Traditional State Space Models (SSMs) are cl…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

MambaMixer: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Dual Token and Channel Selection

Ali Behrouz, Michele Santacatterina, Ramin Zabih

Recent advances in deep learning have mainly relied on Transformers due to their data dependency and ability to learn at scale. The attention module in these architectures, however…

cs.LG2024

Graph Mamba: Towards Learning on Graphs with State Space Models

Ali Behrouz, Farnoosh Hashemi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising potential in graph representation learning. The majority of GNNs define a local message-passing mechanism, propagating information…

cs.SI2023

Generalized Densest Subgraph in Multiplex Networks

Ali Behrouz, Farnoosh Hashemi

Finding dense subgraphs of a large network is a fundamental problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical appli…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

CAT-Walk: Inductive Hypergraph Learning via Set Walks

Ali Behrouz, Farnoosh Hashemi, Sadaf Sadeghian +1

Temporal hypergraphs provide a powerful paradigm for modeling time-dependent, higher-order interactions in complex systems. Representation learning for hypergraphs is essential for…

cs.SI2023★ 18 cited

CS-TGN: Community Search via Temporal Graph Neural Networks

Farnoosh Hashemi, Ali Behrouz, Milad Rezaei Hajidehi

Searching for local communities is an important research challenge that allows for personalized community discovery and supports advanced data analysis in various complex networks,…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

Anomaly Detection in Multiplex Dynamic Networks: from Blockchain Security to Brain Disease Prediction

Ali Behrouz, Margo Seltzer

The problem of identifying anomalies in dynamic networks is a fundamental task with a wide range of applications. However, it raises critical challenges due to the complex nature o…