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Mohammad Sadegh Akhondzadeh

7 accepted papers

2026

EvA: Evolutionary Attacks on Graphs

ICLR 2026poster

Even a slight perturbation in the graph structure can cause a significant drop in the accuracy of graph neural networks (GNNs). Most existing attacks leverage gradient information to perturb edges. This relaxes the attack's optimization problem from a discrete to a continuous space, resulting in sol…

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2026

Front-Loaded Robust Conformal Prediction: Heavy Calibration, Minimal Test-Time Cost

ICML 2026poster

Robust conformal prediction (RCP) addresses confidence miscalibration in machine learning models by producing prediction sets with guaranteed coverage — these sets are guaranteed to include the true label with a user-specified high probability, even under worst-case noise. Recent works use randomize…

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2025

KurTail : Kurtosis-based LLM Quantization

EMNLP 2025

One challenge of quantizing a large language model (LLM) is the presence of outliers. Outliers often make uniform quantization schemes less effective, particularly in extreme cases such as 4-bit quantization. We introduce KurTail, a new post-training quantization (PTQ) scheme that leverages Kurtosis

2025

One Sample is Enough to Make Conformal Prediction Robust

NeurIPS 2025poster

For any black-box model, conformal prediction (CP) returns prediction *sets* guaranteed to include the true label with high adjustable probability. Robust CP (RCP) extends the guarantee to the worst case noise up to a pre-defined magnitude. For RCP, a well-established approach is to use randomized s…

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2024

Rethinking Label Poisoning for GNNs: Pitfalls and Attacks

ICLR 2024poster

Node labels for graphs are usually generated using an automated process or crowd-sourced from human users. This opens up avenues for malicious users to compromise the training labels, making it unwise to blindly rely on them. While robustness against noisy labels is an active area of research, there…

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2024

Robust Yet Efficient Conformal Prediction Sets

ICML 2024poster

Conformal prediction (CP) can convert any model's output into prediction sets guaranteed to include the true label with any user-specified probability. However, same as the model itself, CP is vulnerable to adversarial test examples (evasion) and perturbed calibration data (poisoning). We derive pro…