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Saeed Vahidian

10 accepted papers

2026

SparseInfer: Accelerating Large Language Model Inference with Semantics-Inspired Adaptive Sparse Activation

ICML 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) with billions of parameters have transformed AI applications but require immense computational and memory resources during inference. Adaptive sparse activation inference, which activates only a small number of neurons for each token, offers a novel way to accelerate mod…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Group Distributionally Robust Dataset Distillation with Risk Minimization

ICLR 2025poster

Dataset distillation (DD) has emerged as a widely adopted technique for crafting a synthetic dataset that captures the essential information of a training dataset, facilitating the training of accurate neural models. Its applications span various domains, including transfer learning, federated learn…

2024

Efficient Dataset Distillation via Minimax Diffusion

CVPR 2024poster

Dataset distillation reduces the storage and computational consumption of training a network by generating a small surrogate dataset that encapsulates rich information of the original large-scale one. However previous distillation methods heavily rely on the sample-wise iterative optimization scheme…

2024

Towards Building The Federatedgpt: Federated Instruction Tuning

ICASSP 2024accepted

While "instruction-tuned" generative large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated an impressive ability to generalize to new tasks, the training phases heavily rely on large amounts of diverse and high-quality instruction data (such as ChatGPT and GPT-4). Unfortunately, acquiring high-quality data…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

CEFHRI: A Communication Efficient Federated Learning Framework for Recognizing Industrial Human-Robot Interaction

IROS 2023poster

Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a rapidly growing field that encompasses social and industrial applications. Machine learning plays a vital role in industrial HRI by enhancing the adaptability and autonomy of robots in complex environments. However, data privacy is a crucial concern in the interact…

Cited by 10SourcecodeScholar
2023

Efficient Distribution Similarity Identification in Clustered Federated Learning via Principal Angles between Client Data Subspaces

AAAI 2023technical

Clustered federated learning (FL) has been shown to produce promising results by grouping clients into clusters. This is especially effective in scenarios where separate groups of clients have significant differences in the distributions of their local data. Existing clustered FL algorithms are esse…

2023

When Do Curricula Work in Federated Learning?

ICCV 2023poster

An oft-cited open problem of federated learning is the existence of data heterogeneity among clients. One path- way to understanding the drastic accuracy drop in feder- ated learning is by scrutinizing the behavior of the clients' deep models on data with different levels of "difficulty", which has…

Cited by 11PDFcodeScholar
2021

Unsupervised Meta-Learning through Latent-Space Interpolation in Generative Models

ICLR 2021poster

Several recently proposed unsupervised meta-learning approaches rely on synthetic meta-tasks created using techniques such as random selection, clustering and/or augmentation. In this work, we describe a novel approach that generates meta-tasks using generative models. The proposed family of algorit…

Cited by 44SourcePDFScholar
2020

Coresets for Estimating Means and Mean Square Error with Limited Greedy Samples

UAI 2020poster

In a number of situations, collecting a function value for every data point may be prohibitively expensive, and random sampling ignores any structure in the underlying data. We introduce a scalable optimization algorithm with no correction steps (in contrast to Frank–Wolfe and its variants), a varia…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2020

Select to Better Learn: Fast and Accurate Deep Learning Using Data Selection From Nonlinear Manifolds

CVPR 2020poster

Finding a small subset of data whose linear combination spans other data points, also called column subset selection problem (CSSP), is an important open problem in computer science with many applications in computer vision and deep learning. There are some studies that solve CSSP in a polynomial ti…

Cited by 20PDFcodeScholar