Mohammad Reza Karimi PhD Student mkarimi@inf.ethz.ch OAT Y 18 My current research interests include theory of sampling and optimal transport. Previously I have worked on submodularity and online learning. Publications 2024 Sinkhorn Flow as Mirror Flow: A Continuous-Time Framework for Generalizing the Sinkhorn Algorithm M. R. Karimi, Y. P. Hsieh, A. KrauseIn Proc. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2024[bibtex] [abstract] [pdf] 2023 A Dynamical System View of Langevin-Based Non-Convex Sampling M. R. Karimi, Y. P. Hsieh, A. KrauseIn Proc. of Thirty Seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023[bibtex] [abstract] Stochastic Approximation Algorithms for Systems of Interacting Particles M. R. Karimi, Y. P. Hsieh, A. KrauseIn Proc. of Thirty Seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023[bibtex] [abstract] Riemannian stochastic optimization methods avoid strict saddle points Y. P. Hsieh, M. R. Karimi, A. Krause, P. MertikopoulosIn Proc. of Thirty Seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023[bibtex] [abstract] Isotropic Gaussian Processes on Finite Spaces of Graphs V. Borovitskiy, M. R. Karimi, V. R. Somnath, A. KrauseIn Proceedings of The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2023), PMLR, volume 206, 2023[bibtex] [abstract] [pdf] 2022 The Dynamics of Riemannian Robbins-Monro Algorithms M. R. Karimi, Y. P. Hsieh, P. Mertikopoulos, A. KrauseIn Proc. of Thirty Fifth Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2022[bibtex] [abstract] [pdf] 2021 Online Active Model Selection for Pre-trained Classifiers M. R. Karimi, N. M. Gürel, B. Karlaš, J. Rausch, C. Zhang, A. KrauseIn International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2021[bibtex] [abstract] [pdf] [code] 2019 Consistent Online Optimization: Convex and Submodular M. R. Karimi, A. Krause, S. Lattanzi, S. VassilvitskiiIn International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2019[bibtex] [abstract] [pdf] 2017 Stochastic Submodular Maximization: The Case of Coverage Functions M. R. Karimi, M. Lucic, H. Hassani, A. KrauseIn Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2017[bibtex] [abstract] [pdf] 2016 Smart broadcasting: Do you want to be seen? M. R. Karimi, E. Tavakoli, M. Farajtabar, L. Song, M. Gomez RodriguezIn Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 2016[bibtex] [abstract]
