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20162025
most citedRobust Locally-Linear Controllable Embedding

25 citations · 64 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2025

QuZO: Quantized Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

Jiajun Zhou, Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen +6

Language Models (LLMs) are often quantized to lower precision to reduce the memory cost and latency in inference. However, quantization often degrades model performance, thus fine-…

cs.CL2024

AdaZeta: Adaptive Zeroth-Order Tensor-Train Adaption for Memory-Efficient Large Language Models Fine-Tuning

Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen, Ershad Banijamal +2

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has achieved remarkable performance across various natural language processing tasks, yet it demands more and more memory as model sizes ke…

cs.CV2021

Self-Supervised Simultaneous Multi-Step Prediction of Road Dynamics and Cost Map

Elmira Amirloo, Mohsen Rohani, Ershad Banijamali +2

While supervised learning is widely used for perception modules in conventional autonomous driving solutions, scalability is hindered by the huge amount of data labeling needed. In…

cs.LG2020

Prediction by Anticipation: An Action-Conditional Prediction Method based on Interaction Learning

Ershad Banijamali, Mohsen Rohani, Elmira Amirloo +2

In autonomous driving (AD), accurately predicting changes in the environment can effectively improve safety and comfort. Due to complex interactions among traffic participants, how…

cs.LG2018★ 6 cited

Deep Variational Sufficient Dimensionality Reduction

Ershad Banijamali, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Ali Ghodsi

We consider the problem of sufficient dimensionality reduction (SDR), where the high-dimensional observation is transformed to a low-dimensional sub-space in which the information…

cs.LG2018★ 3 cited

Optimizing over a Restricted Policy Class in Markov Decision Processes

Ershad Banijamali, Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh +1

We address the problem of finding an optimal policy in a Markov decision process under a restricted policy class defined by the convex hull of a set of base policies. This problem…

cs.LG2017★ 2 cited

Disentangling Dynamics and Content for Control and Planning

Ershad Banijamali, Ahmad Khajenezhad, Ali Ghodsi +1

In this paper, We study the problem of learning a controllable representation for high-dimensional observations of dynamical systems. Specifically, we consider a situation where th…

cs.LG2017★ 16 cited

JADE: Joint Autoencoders for Dis-Entanglement

Ershad Banijamali, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Alexander Wong +1

The problem of feature disentanglement has been explored in the literature, for the purpose of image and video processing and text analysis. State-of-the-art methods for disentangl…

cs.LG2017★ 25 cited

Robust Locally-Linear Controllable Embedding

Ershad Banijamali, Rui Shu, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh +2

Embed-to-control (E2C) is a model for solving high-dimensional optimal control problems by combining variational auto-encoders with locally-optimal controllers. However, the E2C mo…

cs.LG2017

Fast Spectral Clustering Using Autoencoders and Landmarks

Ershad Banijamali, Ali Ghodsi

In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for performing spectral clustering efficiently. Spectral clustering is a powerful clustering algorithm that suffers from high computational…

cs.LG2017★ 3 cited

Generative Mixture of Networks

Ershad Banijamali, Ali Ghodsi, Pascal Poupart

A generative model based on training deep architectures is proposed. The model consists of K networks that are trained together to learn the underlying distribution of a given data…

cs.CV2016★ 2 cited

Radon-Gabor Barcodes for Medical Image Retrieval

Mina Nouredanesh, H. R. Tizhoosh, Ershad Banijamali +1

In recent years, with the explosion of digital images on the Web, content-based retrieval has emerged as a significant research area. Shapes, textures, edges and segments may play…

cs.CV2016★ 5 cited

Gabor Barcodes for Medical Image Retrieval

Mina Nouredanesh, Hamid R. Tizhoosh, Ershad Banijamali

In recent years, advances in medical imaging have led to the emergence of massive databases, containing images from a diverse range of modalities. This has significantly heightened…

cs.IT2016

Gaussian Two-Way Channels With Discrete Inputs and Quantized Outputs

Ershad Banijamali

In this paper, Gaussian two-way channel with uniform output quantization is studied. For Gaussian inputs, the optimum uniform finite-level quantizer is determined numerically for d…

cs.LG2016★ 2 cited

Semi-Supervised Representation Learning based on Probabilistic Labeling

Ershad Banijamali, Ali Ghodsi

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for semi-supervised representation learning. In this algorithm, we first find a vector representation for the labels of the data points ba…