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AI Foundational Optimizations

Overview

Focuses on improving the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of core AI models and algorithms. By optimizing training, architectures, and computation, this subgroup enables robust, high-performance AI adaptable to complex, data-driven tasks.

Team

Alumni

Dr. Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Dr. Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Senior Scientist
Keivin Isufaj

Keivin Isufaj

Software Engineer
Johanne G. Medina

Johanne G. Medina

Research Associate

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AI Foundational Optimizations2026

Which Geometry Governs Few-Step Degradation in Latent Flow Matching?

Mohamed Aziz Khadraoui, Abdelkader Baggag — NeurIPS 2026 - BeNTo Workshop (2026)
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AI Foundational Optimizations2026

Rapid disaster damage assessment using deep adversarial sliced Wasserstein domain adaptation

Fatma AlNaimi, Abdulaziz Al-Homaid, Ferda Ofli, Abdelkader Baggag — Neural Computing and Applications (2026)
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AI Foundational Optimizations2026

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

Safa Messaoud, Skander Charni, Elaa Bouazza, Ali Pourghasemi, Halima Bensmail — ICML (2026)
AI Foundational Optimizations2026

ISilDR: Isometric Seriation-based Dimensionality Reduction for Visual Cluster Analysis

Rene Cutura, Sophie Sadler, Quynh Quang Ngo, Michaël Aupetit, Michael Sedlmair — IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2026)
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AI Foundational Optimizations2025

Uncertainty-Aware LLMs Fail to Flag Misleading Contexts

Tianyi Zhou, Johanne Medina, Sanjay Chawla — NeurIPS 2025 – Reliable ML Workshop (2025)
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