Elaheh Akbari — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Neural-Augmented Kelvinlet for Real-Time Soft Tissue Deformation Modeling

Ashkan Shahbazi, Kyvia Pereira, Jon S. Heiselman, Elaheh Akbari, Annie C. Benson, Sepehr Seifi +6

AAAI 2026technical

Accurate and efficient modeling of soft-tissue interactions is fundamental for advancing surgical simulation, surgical robotics, and model-based surgical automation. To achieve real-time latency, classical Finite Element Method (FEM) solvers are often replaced with neural approximations; however, na

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2025

ESPFormer: Doubly-Stochastic Attention with Expected Sliced Transport Plans

Ashkan Shahbazi, Elaheh Akbari, Darian Salehi, Xinran Liu, Navid NaderiAlizadeh, Soheil Kolouri

ICML 2025poster

While self-attention has been instrumental in the success of Transformers, it can lead to over-concentration on a few tokens during training, resulting in suboptimal information flow. Enforcing doubly-stochastic constraints in attention matrices has been shown to improve structure and balance in att…

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