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most citedPruning Neural Networks via Coresets and Convex Geometry: Towards No Assumptions

6 citations · 12 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.LG2026

Characterizing and Mitigating Distributional Bias in Physics-Informed Generative Models

Tanja Bien, Samir Darouich, Lluís Pastor-Pérez +3

Physics-informed generative models augment a data-fitting objective with residual penalties that encourage physical constraints to hold in generated samples. However, improving con…

cs.AI2026

Fine-Tuning Diffusion Language Models with Context Selection and Target Weighting

Loay Mualem, Lluís Pastor-Pérez, Vinh Tong +4

Supervised fine-tuning of discrete diffusion language models masks some response tokens and trains the model to recover their original values from the visible context. The masking…

cs.SD2026

SPECTRA: Subspace-Preserving Embedding Calibration, Transport, and Replay for Fully Few-Shot Class-Incremental Audio Classification

Giries Abu Ayoub, Loay Mualem, Simon Korman

Fully few-shot class-incremental audio classification (FFCAC) requires recognizing new sound classes from only a handful of labeled examples per session, without forgetting previou…

cs.LG2026

ARIA: Adaptive Region-Based Importance Allocation for Conditional Diffusion Distillation

Loay Mualem, Vinh Tong, Samir Darouich +1

Distilling conditional diffusion models aims to transfer the behavior of a large teacher to a smaller student while preserving alignment across conditioning inputs. Unlike recognit…

cs.CL2026

Supportive Token Revealing for Fast Diffusion Language Model Decoding

Giries Abu Ayoub, Mario Barbara, Lluís Pastor-Pérez +4

Discrete diffusion language models can generate text efficiently by updating multiple masked positions in parallel, but this parallelism introduces a quality-latency trade-off. Agg…

cs.CV2026

SpurAudio: A Benchmark for Studying Shortcut Learning in Few-Shot Audio Classification

Giries Abu Ayoub, Morad Tukan, Loay Mualem

Few-shot classification (FSC) is widely used for learning from limited labeled data, yet most evaluations implicitly assume that target concepts are independent of contextual cues.…

cs.LG2026

SymDrift: One-Shot Generative Modeling under Symmetries

Samir Darouich, Vinh Tong, Lluís Pastor-Pérez +3

Generative modeling of physical systems, such as molecules, requires learning distributions that are invariant under global symmetries, such as rotations in three-dimensional space…

cs.LG2025

Improving Model Classification by Optimizing the Training Dataset

Morad Tukan, Loay Mualem, Eitan Netzer +1

In the era of data-centric AI, the ability to curate high-quality training data is as crucial as model design. Coresets offer a principled approach to data reduction, enabling effi…

cs.LG2024

Practical -Approximation for Submodular Maximization Subject to a Cardinality Constraint

Murad Tukan, Loay Mualem, Moran Feldman

Non-monotone constrained submodular maximization plays a crucial role in various machine learning applications. However, existing algorithms often struggle with a trade-off between…

cs.LG2024

Bridging the Gap Between General and Down-Closed Convex Sets in Submodular Maximization

Loay Mualem, Murad Tukan, Moran Fledman

Optimization of DR-submodular functions has experienced a notable surge in significance in recent times, marking a pivotal development within the domain of non-convex optimization.…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

ORBSLAM3-Enhanced Autonomous Toy Drones: Pioneering Indoor Exploration

Murad Tukan, Fares Fares, Yotam Grufinkle +4

Navigating toy drones through uncharted GPS-denied indoor spaces poses significant difficulties due to their reliance on GPS for location determination. In such circumstances, the…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Submodular Minimax Optimization: Finding Effective Sets

Loay Mualem, Ethan R. Elenberg, Moran Feldman +1

Despite the rich existing literature about minimax optimization in continuous settings, only very partial results of this kind have been obtained for combinatorial settings. In thi…

cs.DS2022

Resolving the Approximability of Offline and Online Non-monotone DR-Submodular Maximization over General Convex Sets

Loay Mualem, Moran Feldman

In recent years, maximization of DR-submodular continuous functions became an important research field, with many real-worlds applications in the domains of machine learning, commu…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Pruning Neural Networks via Coresets and Convex Geometry: Towards No Assumptions

Murad Tukan, Loay Mualem, Alaa Maalouf

Pruning is one of the predominant approaches for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs). Lately, coresets (provable data summarizations) were leveraged for pruning DNNs, adding th…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Using Partial Monotonicity in Submodular Maximization

Loay Mualem, Moran Feldman

Over the last two decades, submodular function maximization has been the workhorse of many discrete optimization problems in machine learning applications. Traditionally, the study…

cs.DS2021

Online bin packing of squares and cubes

Leah Epstein, Loay Mualem

In the d-dimensional online bin packing problem, d-dimensional cubes of positive sizes no larger than 1 are presented one by one to be assigned to positions in d-dimensional unit c…