Ali Maatouk

Researcher, Computer Science, Yale University

Joined

May 2023

Names

Ali Maatouk (Preferred)

Emails

****@huawei.com (Confirmed)

****@centralesupelec.fr

****@umd.edu

****@yale.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Computer Science, Yale University (yale.edu)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Huawei Technologies Ltd. (huawei.com)

2021 – 2023

PhD student

CentraleSupelec (centralesupelec.fr)

2017 – 2021

MS student

CentraleSupelec (centralesupelec.fr)

2016 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Anthony Ephremides

2017 – 2021

Expertise

Federated Learning

2022 – Present

Optimization

2018 – Present

Publications

Position: Beyond Euclidean – Foundation Models Should Embrace Non-Euclidean Geometries
Neil He, Jiahong Liu, Buze Zhang, Ngoc Bui, Ali Maatouk, Irwin King, Menglin Yang, Melanie Weber, Rex Ying
- LOG 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
TRACE: Grounding Time Series in Context for Multimodal Embedding and Retrieval
Ziyu Zhao, Jialin Chen, Gaukhar Nurbek, Aosong Feng, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Yifeng Gao, Rex Ying
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs with Mixture of Space Experts
Buze Zhang, Jinkai Tao, Zeng Zilang, Ali Maatouk, Menglin Yang, Rex Ying
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
RepQA: Evaluating Readability of Large Language Models in Patient Education Question Answering
Tinglin Huang, Weikang Qiu, Ryan Rullo, Giselle OConnor, Yuchen Kuang, Ali Maatouk, S. Raquel Ramos, Rex Ying
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MTBench: A Multimodal Time Series Benchmark for Temporal Reasoning and Question Answering
Jialin Chen, Aosong Feng, Ziyu Zhao, Juan Garza, Gaukhar Nurbek, Cheng Qin, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Yifeng Gao, Rex Ying
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
TelecomTS: Observability Dataset for Multi-Modal Time-Series and Language Analysis
Austin Feng, Andreas Varvarigos, Ioannis Panitsas, Daniela Fernandez, Yuwei Guo, Jinbiao Wei, Jialin Chen, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Rex Ying
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
TRACE: Grounding Time Series in Context for Multimodal Embedding and Retrieval
Jialin Chen, Ziyu Zhao, Gaukhar Nurbek, Aosong Feng, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Yifeng Gao, Rex Ying
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
HELM: Hyperbolic Large Language Models via Mixture-of-Curvature Experts
Neil He, Rishabh Anand, Hiren Madhu, Ali Maatouk, Smita Krishnaswamy, Leandros Tassiulas, Menglin Yang, Rex Ying
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Pay Attention to What Matters
Pedro Luiz Silva, Fadhel Ayed, Antonio De Domenico, Ali Maatouk
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Pay Attention to What Matters
Pedro Luiz Silva, Fadhel Ayed, Antonio De Domenico, Ali Maatouk
- MINT@NeurIPS2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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