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Sid Kiblawi

3 accepted papers

2026

Learning Sparse Visual Representations via Spatial-Semantic Factorization

ICML 2026poster

Self-supervised learning (SSL) faces a fundamental conflict between semantic understanding and image reconstruction. High-level semantic SSL (e.g., DINO) relies on global tokens that are forced to be location-invariant for augmentation alignment, a process that inherently discards the spatial coordi…

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2025

Boltzmann Attention Sampling for Image Analysis with Small Objects

CVPR 2025poster

Detecting and segmenting small objects, such as lung nodules and tumor lesions, remains a critical challenge in image analysis. These objects often occupy less than 0.1% of an image, making traditional transformer architectures inefficient and prone to performance degradation due to redundant attent…

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2022

BigBio: A Framework for Data-Centric Biomedical Natural Language Processing

NeurIPS 2022accept

Training and evaluating language models increasingly requires the construction of meta-datasets -- diverse collections of curated data with clear provenance. Natural language prompting has recently lead to improved zero-shot generalization by transforming existing, supervised datasets into a variety…