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Safa Messaoud

6 accepted papers

2026

Particles Don’t Care About Z: Towards Scaling Entropy Estimation of Unnormalized Densities

ICML 2026poster

Computing the differential entropy of distributions known only up to a normalization constant is a long-standing challenge with broad theoretical and practical significance. While variational inference is the most scalable approach for density approximation _from samples_, its potential in settings …

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2025

Explaining the role of Intrinsic Dimensionality in Adversarial Training

ICML 2025poster

Adversarial Training (AT) impacts different architectures in distinct ways: vision models gain robustness but face reduced generalization, encoder-based models exhibit limited robustness improvements with minimal generalization loss, and recent work in latent-space adversarial training demonstrates…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

S$2$AC: Energy-Based Reinforcement Learning with Stein Soft Actor Critic

ICLR 2024poster

Learning expressive stochastic policies instead of deterministic ones has been proposed to achieve better stability, sample complexity and robustness. Notably, in Maximum Entropy reinforcement learning (MaxEnt RL), the policy is modeled as an expressive energy-based model (EBM) over the Q-values. Ho…

2023

Impact of Adversarial Training on Robustness and Generalizability of Language Models

ACL 2023findings

Adversarial training is widely acknowledged as the most effective defense against adversarial attacks. However, it is also well established that achieving both robustness and generalization in adversarially trained models involves a trade-off. The goal of this work is to provide an in depth comparis…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2020

Can We Learn Heuristics for Graphical Model Inference Using Reinforcement Learning?

CVPR 2020oral

Combinatorial optimization is frequently used in computer vision. For instance, in applications like semantic segmentation, human pose estimation and action recognition, programs are formulated for solving inference in Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to produce a structured output that is consisten…

Cited by 4PDFScholar
2018

Structural Consistency and Controllability for Diverse Colorization

ECCV 2018poster

Colorizing a given gray-level image is an important task in the media and advertising industry. Due to the ambiguity inherent to colorization (many shades are often plausible), recent approaches started to explicitly model diversity. However, one of the most obvious artifacts, structural inconsisten…

Cited by 55SourcePDFScholar