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Milad Alizadeh

5 accepted papers

2026

AVEX: What Matters for Animal Vocalization Encoding

ICLR 2026poster

Bioacoustics, the study of sounds produced by living organisms, plays a vital role in conservation, biodiversity monitoring, and behavioral studies. Many tasks in this field, such as species, individual, and behavior classification and detection, are well-suited to machine learning. However, they of…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

On Leakage of Code Generation Evaluation Datasets

EMNLP 2024finding

In this paper, we consider contamination by code generation test sets, in particular in their use in modern large language models.We discuss three possible sources of such contamination and show findings supporting each of them: (i) direct data leakage, (ii) indirect data leakage through the use of…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2022

Prospect Pruning: Finding Trainable Weights at Initialization using Meta-Gradients

ICLR 2022poster

Pruning neural networks at initialization would enable us to find sparse models that retain the accuracy of the original network while consuming fewer computational resources for training and inference. However, current methods are insufficient to enable this optimization and lead to a large degrada…

2020

Gradient $\ell_1$ Regularization for Quantization Robustness

ICLR 2020poster

We analyze the effect of quantizing weights and activations of neural networks on their loss and derive a simple regularization scheme that improves robustness against post-training quantization. By training quantization-ready networks, our approach enables storing a single set of weights that can b…

Cited by 66SourceScholar
2019

An Empirical study of Binary Neural Networks' Optimisation

ICLR 2019poster

Binary neural networks using the Straight-Through-Estimator (STE) have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art results, but their training process is not well-founded. This is due to the discrepancy between the evaluated function in the forward path, and the weight updates in the back-propagation, up…