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20142026
most citedA Field Guide to Federated Optimization

167 citations · 727 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.LG2026

On the Design Space of Discrete Diffusion Online Adaptation for Molecular Optimization

Trevor Chen, Ariel Dai, Jason Yang +8

Molecular optimization often starts from a pretrained generative model that captures a broad prior over valid molecular structures. At test time, however, the goal is not to sample…

cs.LG2026

Few-step Cofolding with All-Atom Flow Maps

Gianluca Scarpellini, Ron Shprints, Peter Holderrieth +7

All-atom generative modeling of 3D biomolecular complexes has emerged as the dominant paradigm for predicting the structure of proteins and protein-ligand systems. Generating struc…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Pearl: A Foundation Model for Placing Every Atom in the Right Location

Genesis Research Team, Alejandro Dobles, Nina Jovic +37

Accurately predicting the three-dimensional structures of protein-ligand complexes remains a fundamental challenge in computational drug discovery that limits the pace and success…

q-bio.QM2025

Triangle Multiplication Is All You Need For Biomolecular Structure Representations

Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang, Pranav Murugan, Daniel J. Diaz +7

AlphaFold has transformed protein structure prediction, but emerging applications such as virtual ligand screening, proteome-wide folding, and de novo binder design demand predicti…

cs.CL2021

Knowledge-Aware Meta-learning for Low-Resource Text Classification

Huaxiu Yao, Yingxin Wu, Maruan Al-Shedivat +1

Meta-learning has achieved great success in leveraging the historical learned knowledge to facilitate the learning process of the new task. However, merely learning the knowledge f…

cs.LG2021★ 167 cited

A Field Guide to Federated Optimization

Jianyu Wang, Zachary Charles, Zheng Xu +50

Federated learning and analytics are a distributed approach for collaboratively learning models (or statistics) from decentralized data, motivated by and designed for privacy prote…

cs.LG2021

On Data Efficiency of Meta-learning

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Liam Li, Eric Xing +1

Meta-learning has enabled learning statistical models that can be quickly adapted to new prediction tasks. Motivated by use-cases in personalized federated learning, we study the o…

cs.LG2020★ 38 cited

Federated Learning via Posterior Averaging: A New Perspective and Practical Algorithms

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Jennifer Gillenwater, Eric Xing +1

Federated learning is typically approached as an optimization problem, where the goal is to minimize a global loss function by distributing computation across client devices that p…

cs.CL2020★ 4 cited

Progressive Generation of Long Text with Pretrained Language Models

Bowen Tan, Zichao Yang, Maruan AI-Shedivat +2

Large-scale language models (LMs) pretrained on massive corpora of text, such as GPT-2, are powerful open-domain text generators. However, as our systematic examination reveals, it…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Learning from Imperfect Annotations

Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Eric Xing +1

Many machine learning systems today are trained on large amounts of human-annotated data. Data annotation tasks that require a high level of competency make data acquisition expens…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Regularizing Black-box Models for Improved Interpretability (HILL 2019 Version)

Gregory Plumb, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Eric Xing +1

Most of the work on interpretable machine learning has focused on designing either inherently interpretable models, which typically trade-off accuracy for interpretability, or post…

cs.LG2019

Consistency by Agreement in Zero-shot Neural Machine Translation

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Ankur P. Parikh

Generalization and reliability of multilingual translation often highly depend on the amount of available parallel data for each language pair of interest. In this paper, we focus…

cs.LG2019★ 38 cited

Regularizing Black-box Models for Improved Interpretability

Gregory Plumb, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Angel Alexander Cabrera +3

Most of the work on interpretable machine learning has focused on designing either inherently interpretable models, which typically trade-off accuracy for interpretability, or post…

cs.LG2018★ 7 cited

On the Complexity of Exploration in Goal-Driven Navigation

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Lisa Lee, Ruslan Salakhutdinov +1

Building agents that can explore their environments intelligently is a challenging open problem. In this paper, we make a step towards understanding how a hierarchical design of th…

cs.MA2018★ 68 cited

Learning Policy Representations in Multiagent Systems

Aditya Grover, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Jayesh K. Gupta +2

Modeling agent behavior is central to understanding the emergence of complex phenomena in multiagent systems. Prior work in agent modeling has largely been task-specific and driven…

cs.LG2018★ 10 cited

DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte-Carlo Estimator

Jakob Foerster, Gregory Farquhar, Maruan Al-Shedivat +3

The score function estimator is widely used for estimating gradients of stochastic objectives in stochastic computation graphs (SCG), eg, in reinforcement learning and meta-learnin…

cs.LG2018

Personalized Survival Prediction with Contextual Explanation Networks

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Avinava Dubey, Eric P. Xing

Accurate and transparent prediction of cancer survival times on the level of individual patients can inform and improve patient care and treatment practices. In this paper, we desi…

cs.LG2018★ 12 cited

The Intriguing Properties of Model Explanations

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Avinava Dubey, Eric P. Xing

Linear approximations to the decision boundary of a complex model have become one of the most popular tools for interpreting predictions. In this paper, we study such linear explan…

cs.LG2017★ 150 cited

Continuous Adaptation via Meta-Learning in Nonstationary and Competitive Environments

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Trapit Bansal, Yuri Burda +3

Ability to continuously learn and adapt from limited experience in nonstationary environments is an important milestone on the path towards general intelligence. In this paper, we…

cs.AI2017

Learning with Opponent-Learning Awareness

Jakob N. Foerster, Richard Y. Chen, Maruan Al-Shedivat +3

Multi-agent settings are quickly gathering importance in machine learning. This includes a plethora of recent work on deep multi-agent reinforcement learning, but also can be exten…

cs.LG2017★ 64 cited

Contextual Explanation Networks

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Avinava Dubey, Eric P. Xing

Modern learning algorithms excel at producing accurate but complex models of the data. However, deploying such models in the real-world requires extra care: we must ensure their re…

cs.LG2016★ 22 cited

Learning Scalable Deep Kernels with Recurrent Structure

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Yunus Saatchi +2

Many applications in speech, robotics, finance, and biology deal with sequential data, where ordering matters and recurrent structures are common. However, this structure cannot be…

stat.ML2016

Learning HMMs with Nonparametric Emissions via Spectral Decompositions of Continuous Matrices

Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Eric P. Xing

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using spectral methods for estimating latent variable models. However, it is usually assumed that the distribution of the observatio…

cs.NE2015★ 136 cited

Stochastic Synapses Enable Efficient Brain-Inspired Learning Machines

Emre O. Neftci, Bruno U. Pedroni, Siddharth Joshi +2

Recent studies have shown that synaptic unreliability is a robust and sufficient mechanism for inducing the stochasticity observed in cortex. Here, we introduce Synaptic Sampling M…