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most citedSparsity and Heterogeneous Dropout for Continual Learning in the Null Space of Neural Activations

3 citations · 9 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.LG2026

BASE: Batch-Aware Selection of Experts Using Predicted Removal Error for Efficient MoE Decoding

Ali Abbasi, Justin Shi, Soheil Kolouri

Large language models are increasingly expensive to serve. In large-scale serving systems, autoregressive decoding is often bottlenecked by transferring model weights from accelera…

cs.LG2026

CircuitSteer: Geometrically Aligned Multi-Layer Steering via Sparse Autoencoder Circuits

Mehrshad Saadatinia, Parsa Razmara, Ardalan Aryashad +2

Controlling the behavior of large language models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge for AI alignment. Existing steering methods, such as Contrastive Activation Addition (CAA), ty…

cs.LG2026

IO-SVD: Input-Output Whitened SVD for Adaptive-Rank LLM Compression

Ali Abbasi, Chayne Thrash, Haoran Qin +2

Large language models deliver strong performance across language and reasoning tasks, but their storage and compute costs remain major barriers to deployment in resource-constraine…

cs.LG2026

ConQuR: Corner Aligned Activation Quantization via Optimized Rotations for LLMs

Chayne Thrash, Ali Abbasi, Soheil Kolouri

Large language models (LLMs) are costly to deploy due to their large memory footprint and high inference cost. Weight-activation quantization can reduce these costs, but low-bit ac…

cs.CV2026

Vector-Quantized Soft Label Compression for Dataset Distillation

Ali Abbasi, Ashkan Shahbazi, Hamed Pirsiavash +1

Dataset distillation is an emerging technique for reducing the computational and storage costs of training machine learning models by synthesizing a small, informative subset of da…

cs.LG2026

Zero Sum SVD: Balancing Loss Sensitivity for Low Rank LLM Compression

Ali Abbasi, Chayne Thrash, Haoran Qin +3

Advances in large language models have driven strong performance across many tasks, but their memory and compute costs still hinder deployment. SVD-based compression reduces storag…

cs.LG2025

LUNA: Linear Universal Neural Attention with Generalization Guarantees

Ashkan Shahbazi, Ping He, Ali Abbasi +6

Scaling attention faces a critical bottleneck: the quadratic computational cost of softmax attention, which limits its application in long-sequence domains. Whil…

cs.LG2025

Low-Rank Prehab: Preparing Neural Networks for SVD Compression

Haoran Qin, Shansita Sharma, Ali Abbasi +2

Low-rank approximation methods such as singular value decomposition (SVD) and its variants (e.g., Fisher-weighted SVD, Activation SVD) have recently emerged as effective tools for…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Knowledge Distillation and Dataset Distillation of Large Language Models: Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

Luyang Fang, Xiaowei Yu, Jiazhang Cai +23

The exponential growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to highlight the need for efficient strategies to meet ever-expanding computational and data demands. This survey p…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

MCNC: Manifold-Constrained Reparameterization for Neural Compression

Chayne Thrash, Ali Abbasi, Reed Andreas +4

The outstanding performance of large foundational models across diverse tasks, from computer vision to speech and natural language processing, has significantly increased their dem…

cs.CV2024

One Category One Prompt: Dataset Distillation using Diffusion Models

Ali Abbasi, Ashkan Shahbazi, Hamed Pirsiavash +1

The extensive amounts of data required for training deep neural networks pose significant challenges on storage and transmission fronts. Dataset distillation has emerged as a promi…

eess.SP2023

Dynamic Online Modulation Recognition using Incremental Learning

Ali Owfi, Ali Abbasi, Fatemeh Afghah +2

Modulation recognition is a fundamental task in communication systems as the accurate identification of modulation schemes is essential for reliable signal processing, interference…

cs.LG2023

BrainWash: A Poisoning Attack to Forget in Continual Learning

Ali Abbasi, Parsa Nooralinejad, Hamed Pirsiavash +1

Continual learning has gained substantial attention within the deep learning community, offering promising solutions to the challenging problem of sequential learning. Yet, a large…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

CovarNav: Machine Unlearning via Model Inversion and Covariance Navigation

Ali Abbasi, Chayne Thrash, Elaheh Akbari +2

The rapid progress of AI, combined with its unprecedented public adoption and the propensity of large neural networks to memorize training data, has given rise to significant data…

cs.LG2022

PRANC: Pseudo RAndom Networks for Compacting deep models

Parsa Nooralinejad, Ali Abbasi, Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani +4

We demonstrate that a deep model can be reparametrized as a linear combination of several randomly initialized and frozen deep models in the weight space. During training, we seek…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Sparsity and Heterogeneous Dropout for Continual Learning in the Null Space of Neural Activations

Ali Abbasi, Parsa Nooralinejad, Vladimir Braverman +2

Continual/lifelong learning from a non-stationary input data stream is a cornerstone of intelligence. Despite their phenomenal performance in a wide variety of applications, deep n…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Teaching Networks to Solve Optimization Problems

Xinran Liu, Yuzhe Lu, Ali Abbasi +3

Leveraging machine learning to facilitate the optimization process is an emerging field that holds the promise to bypass the fundamental computational bottleneck caused by classic…