Kiarash Zahirnia

PhD student, Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

Joined

May 2021

Names

Kiarash Zahirnia (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@sfu.ca (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Computing Science, Simon Fraser University (sfu.ca)

2018 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Oliver schulte

2018 – Present

Expertise

deep learning

generative models

relational data

2018 – Present

machine leaning

2014 – Present

Publications

SFT WITHOUT OVERFITTING: ANALYZING THE TRAINING DYNAMICS OF SUPERVISED FINE-TUNING
Kiarash Zahirnia, Xiaocan Li, Zheng Shen
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
ETT: Expanding the Long Context Understanding Capability of LLMs at Test-Time
Kiarash Zahirnia, Zahra Golpayegani, Walid Ahmed, Yang Liu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Enhancing Graph Generation With First-Order Logic Rules
Ali Khazraee, Abdolreza Mirzaei, Majid Farhadi, Parmis Naddaf, Kiarash Zahirnia, Mohammad Salameh, Kevin Cannons, Richard Mar, Oliver Schulte
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Rule-Enhanced Graph Learning
Ali Khazraee, Abdolreza Mirzaei, Majjid Farhadi, Parmis Nadaff, Kiarash Zahirnia, Mohammad Salameh, Kevin Cannons, Richard Mar, Mingyi Wu, Oliver Schulte
- 2nd SPIGM @ ICML Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Neural Graph Generation from Graph Statistics
Kiarash Zahirnia, Yaochen Hu, Mark Coates, Oliver Schulte
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Micro and Macro Level Graph Modeling for Graph Variational Auto-Encoders
Kiarash Zahirnia, Oliver Schulte, Parmis Naddaf, Ke Li
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Micro and Macro Level Graph Modeling for Graph Variational Auto-Encoders
Kiarash Zahirnia, Oliver Schulte, Parmis Nadaf, Ke Li
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- NeurIPS 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Learning of Latent Edge Types from Relational Data
Kiarash Zahirnia, Oliver Schulte, Ke Li, Ankita Sakhuja, Parmis Nadaf
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- AI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Micro and Macro Level Graph Modeling for Graph Variational Auto-Encoders
Kiarash Zahirnia, Oliver Schulte, Parmis Nadaf, Ke Li
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Generating the Graph Gestalt: Kernel-Regularized Graph Representation Learning
Kiarash Zahirnia, Ankita Sakhuja, Oliver Schulte, Parmis Nadaf, Ke Li, Xia Hu
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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