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Amir Zadeh

18 accepted papers

2026

3D-DLP: Self-supervised 3D Object-centric Scene Representation Learning

ICML 2026poster

We introduce 3D-DLP, a self-supervised object-centric representation learning model that decomposes scene-level RGB-D or voxel observations into a set of 3D latent particles. Building on the Deep Latent Particles (DLP) framework, each particle encodes disentangled attributes, including 3D keypoint p…

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2026

Latent Particle World Models: Self-supervised Object-centric Stochastic Dynamics Modeling

ICLR 2026oral

We introduce Latent Particle World Model (LPWM), a self-supervised object-centric world model scaled to real-world multi-object datasets and applicable in decision-making. LPWM autonomously discovers keypoints, bounding boxes, and object masks directly from video data, enabling it to learn rich scen…

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2026

MODUS: Decoder-only Any-to-Any Modeling of Diverse Modalities

ICML 2026poster

Any-to-any modeling aims to flexibly relate arbitrary modalities within a single system, a requirement that arises across multimodal learning and scientific domains such as ecology and astronomy. However, existing any-to-any approaches are typically trained from scratch using encoder–decoder or diff…

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2026

Measuring and Mitigating Rapport Bias of Large Language Models under Multi-Agent Social Interactions

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems (MAS) as components of collaborative intelligence, where peer interactions dynamically shape individual decision-making. While prior work has largely focused on conformity bias, we broaden the scope to examine how LLMs bui…

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2026

OffTopicEval: When Large Language Models Enter the Wrong Chat, Almost Always!

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Model (LLM) safety is one of the most pressing challenges for enabling wide-scale deployment. While most studies and global discussions focus on generic harms, such as models assisting users in harming themselves or others, enterprises face a more fundamental concern: whether LLM-base…

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2026

Solving Physics Olympiad via Reinforcement Learning on Physics Simulators

ICML 2026poster

We have witnessed remarkable advances in LLM reasoning capabilities with the advent of DeepSeek-R1. However, much of this progress has been fueled by the abundance of internet question–answer (QA) pairs—a major bottleneck going forward, since such data is limited in scale and concentrated mainly in …

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2026

TangoFlux: Super Fast and Faithful Text to Audio Generation with Flow Matching and Clap-Ranked Preference Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce TangoFlux, an efficient Text-to-Audio (TTA) generative model with 515M parameters, capable of generating up to 30 seconds of 44.1kHz audio in 3.7 seconds on a A40 GPU. A key challenge in aligning TTA models lies in creating preference pairs, as TTA lacks structured mechanisms like verif…

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2025

AimBot: A Simple Auxiliary Visual Cue to Enhance Spatial Awareness of Visuomotor Policies

CoRL 2025poster

In this paper, we propose AimBot, a lightweight visual augmentation technique that provides explicit spatial cues to improve visuomotor policy learning in robotic manipulation. AimBot overlays shooting lines and scope reticles onto multi-view RGB images, offering auxiliary visual guidance that encod…

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2025

BLEUBERI: BLEU is a surprisingly effective reward for instruction following

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reward models are central to aligning LLMs with human preferences, but they are costly to train, requiring large-scale human-labeled preference data and powerful pretrained LLM backbones. Meanwhile, the increasing availability of high-quality synthetic instruction-following datasets raises the quest…

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2025

Bifrost-1: Bridging Multimodal LLMs and Diffusion Models with Patch-level CLIP Latents

NeurIPS 2025poster

There is growing interest in integrating high-fidelity visual synthesis capabilities into large language models (LLMs) without compromising their strong reasoning capabilities. Existing methods that directly train LLMs or bridge LLMs and diffusion models usually suffer from costly training since the…

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2025

Diffusion Beats Autoregressive in Data-Constrained Settings

NeurIPS 2025poster

Autoregressive (AR) models have long dominated the landscape of large language models, driving progress across a wide range of tasks. Recently, diffusion-based language models have emerged as a promising alternative, though their advantages over AR models remain underexplored. In this paper, we syst…

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2025

Error Typing for Smarter Rewards: Improving Process Reward Models with Error-Aware Hierarchical Supervision

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to hallucination, especially during multi‐hop and reasoning-intensive tasks such as mathematical problem solving. While Outcome Reward Models verify only final answers, Process Reward Models (PRMs) score each intermediate step to steer generation toward coheren

2025

VeriFastScore: Speeding up long-form factuality evaluation

EMNLP 2025

Metrics like FactScore and VeriScore that evaluate long-form factuality operate by decomposing an input response into atomic claims and then individually verifying each claim. While effective and interpretable, these methods incur numerous LLM calls and can take upwards of 100s to evaluate a single

2023

Evaluating Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning Approaches on SURE Benchmark for Speech Understanding

ICASSP 2023accepted

Fine-tuning is widely used as the default algorithm for transfer learning from pre-trained models. Parameter inefficiency can however arise when, during transfer learning, all the parameters of a large pre-trained model need to be updated for individual downstream tasks. As the number of parameters…

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2021

Humor Knowledge Enriched Transformer for Understanding Multimodal Humor

AAAI 2021technical

Recognizing humor from a video utterance requires understanding the verbal and non-verbal components as well as incorporating the appropriate context and external knowledge. In this paper, we propose Humor Knowledge enriched Transformer (HKT) that can capture the gist of a multimodal humorous expres…

2021

MTAG: Modal-Temporal Attention Graph for Unaligned Human Multimodal Language Sequences

NAACL 2021long

Human communication is multimodal in nature; it is through multiple modalities such as language, voice, and facial expressions, that opinions and emotions are expressed. Data in this domain exhibits complex multi-relational and temporal interactions. Learning from this data is a fundamentally challe…

2019

Learning Factorized Multimodal Representations

ICLR 2019poster

Learning multimodal representations is a fundamentally complex research problem due to the presence of multiple heterogeneous sources of information. Although the presence of multiple modalities provides additional valuable information, there are two key challenges to address when learning from mult…

2019

Social-IQ: A Question Answering Benchmark for Artificial Social Intelligence

CVPR 2019oral

As intelligent systems increasingly blend into our everyday life, artificial social intelligence becomes a prominent area of research. Intelligent systems must be socially intelligent in order to comprehend human intents and maintain a rich level of interaction with humans. Human language offers a u…

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