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Alaa Khaddaj

5 accepted papers

2026

DataMIL: Selecting Data for Robot Imitation Learning with Datamodels

ICLR 2026poster

Recently, the robotics community has amassed ever larger and more diverse datasets to train generalist policies. However, while these policies achieve strong mean performance across a variety of tasks, they often underperform on individual, specialized tasks and require further tuning on newly acqui…

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2025

Small-to-Large Generalization: Training Data Influences Models Consistently Across Scale

ICLR 2025poster

Choice of training data distribution greatly influences model behavior. Yet, in large-scale settings, precisely characterizing *how* changes in training data affects predictions is often difficult due to model training costs. Current practice is to instead extrapolate from scaled down, inexpensive-t…

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2023

A Data-Based Perspective on Transfer Learning

CVPR 2023poster

It is commonly believed that more pre-training data leads to better transfer learning performance. However, recent evidence suggests that removing data from the source dataset can actually help too. In this work, we present a framework for probing the impact of the source dataset's composition on tr…

2023

Raising the Cost of Malicious AI-Powered Image Editing

ICML 2023oral

We present an approach to mitigating the risks of malicious image editing posed by large diffusion models. The key idea is to immunize images so as to make them resistant to manipulation by these models. This immunization relies on injection of imperceptible adversarial perturbations designed to dis…

2023

Rethinking Backdoor Attacks

ICML 2023poster

In a *backdoor attack*, an adversary inserts maliciously constructed backdoor examples into a training set to make the resulting model vulnerable to manipulation. Defending against such attacks involves viewing inserted examples as outliers in the training set and using techniques from robust statis…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar