activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2026

FORGE: Foundational Optimization Representations from Graph Embeddings

Zohair Shafi, Serdar Kadioglu

Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Still, learning-based approaches to accelerate combinatorial optimization often require solving a lar…

cs.LG2026

DeepWeightFlow: Re-Basined Flow Matching for Generating Neural Network Weights

Saumya Gupta, Scott Biggs, Moritz Laber +3

Building efficient and effective generative models for neural network weights has been a research focus of significant interest that faces challenges posed by the high-dimensional…

cs.LG2025

Graph-SCP: Accelerating Set Cover Problems with Graph Neural Networks

Zohair Shafi, Benjamin A. Miller, Tina Eliassi-Rad +1

Machine learning (ML) approaches are increasingly being used to accelerate combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. We investigate the Set Cover Problem (SCP) and propose Graph-SC…

cs.SI2025

Defense Against Shortest Path Attacks

Benjamin A. Miller, Zohair Shafi, Wheeler Ruml +3

Identifying shortest paths between nodes in a network is an important task in many applications. Recent work has shown that a malicious actor can manipulate a graph to make traffic…

cs.LG2024

REGE: A Method for Incorporating Uncertainty in Graph Embeddings

Zohair Shafi, Germans Savcisens, Tina Eliassi-Rad

Machine learning models for graphs in real-world applications are prone to two primary types of uncertainty: (1) those that arise from incomplete and noisy data and (2) those that…

cs.LG2024

Generating Human Understandable Explanations for Node Embeddings

Zohair Shafi, Ayan Chatterjee, Tina Eliassi-Rad

Node embedding algorithms produce low-dimensional latent representations of nodes in a graph. These embeddings are often used for downstream tasks, such as node classification and…