activity
20232026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.AI2026

ConicFlow: constrained Inference-time optimal control for flow matching models

Shervin Khalafi, Kasra Fallah, Sung Cho +3

We propose ConicFlow, which frames constrained sampling from a flow matching model at inference time as an optimal control problem that balances deviation from the pretrained traje…

cs.LG2026

Unlearning in Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework with KL Divergence and Likelihood Constraints

Shervin Khalafi, Alejandro Ribeiro, Dongsheng Ding

Unlearning in diffusion models aims to remove undesirable data or concepts while preserving the utility of pretrained models -- two fundamentally conflicting objectives. We propose…

cs.LG2025

Composition and Alignment of Diffusion Models using Constrained Learning

Shervin Khalafi, Ignacio Hounie, Dongsheng Ding +1

Diffusion models have become prevalent in generative modeling due to their ability to sample from complex distributions. To improve the quality of generated samples and their compl…

cs.LG2025

Alignment of large language models with constrained learning

Botong Zhang, Shuo Li, Ignacio Hounie +3

We study the problem of computing an optimal large language model (LLM) policy for the constrained alignment problem, where the goal is to maximize a primary reward objective while…

cs.LG2024

Constrained Diffusion Models via Dual Training

Shervin Khalafi, Dongsheng Ding, Alejandro Ribeiro

Diffusion models have attained prominence for their ability to synthesize a probability distribution for a given dataset via a diffusion process, enabling the generation of new dat…

cs.AI2024

Deterministic Policy Gradient Primal-Dual Methods for Continuous-Space Constrained MDPs

Sergio Rozada, Dongsheng Ding, Antonio G. Marques +1

We study the problem of computing deterministic optimal policies for constrained Markov decision processes (MDPs) with continuous state and action spaces, which are widely encounte…

math.OC2023

Resilient Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Dongsheng Ding, Zhengyan Huan, Alejandro Ribeiro

We study a class of constrained reinforcement learning (RL) problems in which multiple constraint specifications are not identified before training. It is challenging to identify a…