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Mahdi Jalili

7 accepted papers

2026

A Fast Heuristic Search Approach for Energy-Optimal Profile Routing for Electric Vehicles

AAAI 2026technical

We study the energy-optimal shortest path problem for electric vehicles (EVs) in large-scale road networks, where recuperated energy along downhill segments introduces negative energy costs. While traditional point-to-point pathfinding algorithms for EVs assume a known initial energy level, many rea

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2026

Bridging the Grounding Gap in VideoQA via Typed Memory for Language-based Belief-State Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

VideoQA models can be accurate yet often fail to align answers with the correct video segments (the \emph{grounding gap}). We introduce \textbf{LINGUA} (\textbf{L}anguage-based \textbf{IN}ference for \textbf{G}rounded Video \textbf{U}nderstanding \textbf{A}gent), a memory-based agent that performs g…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Learning Network Dismantling Without Handcrafted Inputs

AAAI 2026technical

The application of message-passing Graph Neural Networks has been a breakthrough for important network science problems. However, the competitive performance often relies on using handcrafted structural features as inputs, which increases computational cost and introduces bias into the otherwise pur

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2025

DistillHGNN: A Knowledge Distillation Approach for High-Speed Hypergraph Neural Networks

ICLR 2025poster

In this paper, we propose a novel framework to significantly enhance the inference speed and memory efficiency of Hypergraph Neural Networks (HGNNs) while preserving their high accuracy. Our approach utilizes an advanced teacher-student knowledge distillation strategy. The teacher model, consisting…

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2025

Resource Constrained Pathfinding with Enhanced Bidirectional A* Search

AAAI 2025technical

The classic Resource Constrained Shortest Path (RCSP) problem aims to find a cost optimal path between a pair of nodes in a network such that the resources used in the path are within a given limit. Having been studied for over a decade, RCSP has seen recent solutions that utilize heuristic-guided s…

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2025

SHARP-Distill: A 68× Faster Recommender System with Hypergraph Neural Networks and Language Models

ICML 2025poster

This paper proposes SHARP-Distill (\textbf{S}peedy \textbf{H}ypergraph \textbf{A}nd \textbf{R}eview-based \textbf{P}ersonalised \textbf{Distill}ation), a novel knowledge distillation approach based on the teacher-student framework that combines Hypergraph Neural Networks (HGNNs) with language models…

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2020

Adversarial Graph Embeddings for Fair Influence Maximization over Social Networks

IJCAI 2020poster

Influence maximization is a widely studied topic in network science, where the aim is to reach the maximum possible number of nodes, while only targeting a small initial set of individuals. It has critical applications in many fields, including viral marketing, information propagation, news dissemin…