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20122026
most citedOn the Convergence of Local Descent Methods in Federated Learning

170 citations · 341 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CV2026

A4-MR: Abnormality-aware Anatomical Alignment for MR

Noel D'souza, Zhijian Yang, Nishank Singla +14

Recent advances in large-scale foundation models have enabled strong generalization across a wide range of clinical and research tasks in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However,…

cs.CV2025

Decipher-MR: A Vision-Language Foundation Model for 3D MRI Representations

Zhijian Yang, Noel DSouza, Istvan Megyeri +11

Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a critical imaging modality in clinical diagnosis and research, yet its complexity and heterogeneity hinder scalable, generalizable machine learning.…

cs.CV2025

Multi Anatomy X-Ray Foundation Model

Nishank Singla, Krisztian Koos, Farzin Haddadpour +5

X-ray imaging is a ubiquitous in radiology, yet most existing AI foundation models are limited to chest anatomy and fail to generalize across broader clinical tasks. In this work,…

stat.ML2022★ 3 cited

Beyond Lipschitz: Sharp Generalization and Excess Risk Bounds for Full-Batch GD

Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis, Farzin Haddadpour, Amin Karbasi +1

We provide sharp path-dependent generalization and excess risk guarantees for the full-batch Gradient Descent (GD) algorithm on smooth losses (possibly non-Lipschitz, possibly nonc…

cs.LG2022

Learning Distributionally Robust Models at Scale via Composite Optimization

Farzin Haddadpour, Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Mehrdad Mahdavi +1

To train machine learning models that are robust to distribution shifts in the data, distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has been proven very effective. However, the existin…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Black-Box Generalization: Stability of Zeroth-Order Learning

Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis, Farzin Haddadpour, Dionysios S. Kalogerias +1

We provide the first generalization error analysis for black-box learning through derivative-free optimization. Under the assumption of a Lipschitz and smooth unknown loss, we cons…

stat.ML2020★ 11 cited

FedSKETCH: Communication-Efficient and Private Federated Learning via Sketching

Farzin Haddadpour, Belhal Karimi, Ping Li +1

Communication complexity and privacy are the two key challenges in Federated Learning where the goal is to perform a distributed learning through a large volume of devices. In this…

cs.LG2020★ 28 cited

Federated Learning with Compression: Unified Analysis and Sharp Guarantees

Farzin Haddadpour, Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Aryan Mokhtari +1

In federated learning, communication cost is often a critical bottleneck to scale up distributed optimization algorithms to collaboratively learn a model from millions of devices w…

cs.LG2019

Efficient Fair Principal Component Analysis

Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Farzin Haddadpour, Rana Forsati +1

It has been shown that dimension reduction methods such as PCA may be inherently prone to unfairness and treat data from different sensitive groups such as race, color, sex, etc.,…

cs.LG2019★ 170 cited

On the Convergence of Local Descent Methods in Federated Learning

Farzin Haddadpour, Mehrdad Mahdavi

In federated distributed learning, the goal is to optimize a global training objective defined over distributed devices, where the data shard at each device is sampled from a possi…

cs.LG2019★ 107 cited

Local SGD with Periodic Averaging: Tighter Analysis and Adaptive Synchronization

Farzin Haddadpour, Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Mehrdad Mahdavi +1

Communication overhead is one of the key challenges that hinders the scalability of distributed optimization algorithms. In this paper, we study local distributed SGD, where data i…

cs.IT2018★ 13 cited

Straggler-Resilient and Communication-Efficient Distributed Iterative Linear Solver

Farzin Haddadpour, Yaoqing Yang, Malhar Chaudhari +2

We propose a novel distributed iterative linear inverse solver method. Our method, PolyLin, has significantly lower communication cost, both in terms of number of rounds as well as…

cs.IT2018

On the Optimal Recovery Threshold of Coded Matrix Multiplication

Sanghamitra Dutta, Mohammad Fahim, Farzin Haddadpour +3

We provide novel coded computation strategies for distributed matrix-matrix products that outperform the recent "Polynomial code" constructions in recovery threshold, i.e., the req…

cs.LG2016

Low-Complexity Stochastic Generalized Belief Propagation

Farzin Haddadpour, Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani, Morteza Noshad

The generalized belief propagation (GBP), introduced by Yedidia et al., is an extension of the belief propagation (BP) algorithm, which is widely used in different problems involve…

cs.IT2013

Simulation of a Channel with Another Channel

Farzin Haddadpour, Mohammad Hossein Yassaee, Salman Beigi +2

In this paper, we study the problem of simulating a DMC channel from another DMC channel under an average-case and an exact model. We present several achievability and infeasibilit…

cs.IT2013★ 1 cited

On AVCs with Quadratic Constraints

Farzin Haddadpour, Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani, Mayank Bakshi +1

In this work we study an Arbitrarily Varying Channel (AVC) with quadratic power constraints on the transmitter and a so-called "oblivious" jammer (along with additional AWGN) under…

cs.IT2012★ 5 cited

Coordination via a relay

Farzin Haddadpour, Mohammad Hossein Yassaee, Amin Gohari +1

In this paper, we study the problem of coordinating two nodes which can only exchange information via a relay at limited rates. The nodes are allowed to do a two-round interactive…