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Shervin Khalafi

4 accepted papers

2026

Unlearning in Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework with KL Divergence and Likelihood Constraints

ICML 2026poster

Unlearning in diffusion models aims to remove undesirable data or concepts while preserving the utility of pretrained models---two fundamentally conflicting objectives. We propose a principled constrained optimization framework that formulates unlearning as minimizing the deviation from a pretrained…

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2025

Composition and Alignment of Diffusion Models using Constrained Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Diffusion models have become prevalent in generative modeling due to their ability to sample from complex distributions. To improve the quality of generated samples and their compliance with user requirements, two commonly used methods are: (i) Alignment, which involves finetuning a diffusion model…

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2024

Neural Tangent Kernels Motivate Cross-Covariance Graphs in Neural Networks

ICML 2024poster

Neural tangent kernels (NTKs) provide a theoretical regime to analyze the learning and generalization behavior of over-parametrized neural networks. For a supervised learning task, the association between the eigenvectors of the NTK and given data (a concept referred to as alignment in this paper) c…

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