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Rasa Hosseinzadeh

9 accepted papers

2026

Textual Bayes: Quantifying Uncertainty in LLM-Based Systems

ICLR 2026poster

Although large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly capable of solving challenging real-world tasks, accurately quantifying their uncertainty remains a critical open problem—one that limits their applicability in high-stakes domains. This challenge is further compounded by the closed-sou…

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2025

A Geometric Framework for Understanding Memorization in Generative Models

ICLR 2025spotlight

As deep generative models have progressed, recent work has shown them to be capable of memorizing and reproducing training datapoints when deployed. These findings call into question the usability of generative models, especially in light of the legal and privacy risks brought about by memorization.…

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2025

MSc-SQL: Multi-Sample Critiquing Small Language Models For Text-To-SQL Translation

NAACL 2025long

Text-to-SQL generation enables non-experts to interact with databases via natural language. Recent advances rely on large closed-source models like GPT-4 that present challenges in accessibility, privacy, and latency. To address these issues, we focus on developing small, efficient, and open-source…

2025

TabDPT: Scaling Tabular Foundation Models on Real Data

NeurIPS 2025poster

Tabular data is one of the most ubiquitous sources of information worldwide, spanning a wide variety of domains. This inherent heterogeneity has slowed the development of Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) capable of fast generalization to unseen datasets. In-Context Learning (ICL) has recently emerge…

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2024

A Geometric View of Data Complexity: Efficient Local Intrinsic Dimension Estimation with Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

High-dimensional data commonly lies on low-dimensional submanifolds, and estimating the local intrinsic dimension (LID) of a datum -- i.e. the dimension of the submanifold it belongs to -- is a longstanding problem. LID can be understood as the number of local factors of variation: the more factors…

2024

Retrieval & Fine-Tuning for In-Context Tabular Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Tabular data is a pervasive modality spanning a wide range of domains, and this inherent diversity poses a considerable challenge for deep learning. Recent advancements using transformer-based in-context learning have shown promise on smaller and less complex tabular datasets, but have struggled to…

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2023

DiMS: Distilling Multiple Steps of Iterative Non-Autoregressive Transformers for Machine Translation

ACL 2023findings

The computational benefits of iterative non-autoregressive transformers decrease as the number of decoding steps increases. As a remedy, we introduce Distill Multiple Steps (DiMS), a simple yet effective distillation technique to decrease the number of required steps to reach a certain translation q…

2023

Exposing flaws of generative model evaluation metrics and their unfair treatment of diffusion models

NeurIPS 2023poster

We systematically study a wide variety of generative models spanning semantically-diverse image datasets to understand and improve the feature extractors and metrics used to evaluate them. Using best practices in psychophysics, we measure human perception of image realism for generated samples by co…

2022

Convergence of Langevin Monte Carlo in Chi-Squared and Rényi Divergence

AISTATS 2022poster

We study sampling from a target distribution $\nu_* = e^{-f}$ using the unadjusted Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC) algorithm when the potential $f$ satisfies a strong dissipativity condition and it is first-order smooth with a Lipschitz gradient. We prove that, initialized with a Gaussian random vector t…

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