Masoud Asgharian

Full Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University

Joined

May 2024

Names

Masoud Asgharian (Preferred)

Emails

****@mcgill.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University (mcgill.ca)

2016 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Alireza Ghaffari

2022 – Present

Postdoc Advisee

Vahid Partovi Nia

2009 – Present

PhD Advisor

David Bernard Wolfson

1993 – 1998

Expertise

Machine learning and Neural Networks

2019 – Present

Operations research and optimization

1995 – Present

Methodology and Theory of Statistics

1993 – Present

Publications

A convergence diagnostic for Bayesian clustering
Martin Lysy, Masoud Asgharian, Vahid Partovi Nia
- WIREs Computational Statistics
- Readers: Everyone
A Causal Direction Test for Heterogeneous Populations
Vahid Partovi Nia, Xinlin Li, Masoud Asgharian, Shoubo Hu, Yanhui Geng, Zhitang Chen
- Machine Learning with Applications
- Readers: Everyone
EuclidNets: An Alternative Operation for Efficient Inference of Deep Learning Models
Xinlin Li, Mariana Oliveira Prazeres, Adam Oberman, Alireza Ghaffari, Masoud Asgharian, Vahid Partovi Nia
- Springer Nature (SN) Computer Science
- Readers: Everyone
On the Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent in Low-precision Number Formats
Matteo Cacciola, Antonio Frangioni, Masoud Asgharian, Alireza Ghaffari, Vahid Partovi Nia
- Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
- Readers: Everyone
Training Integer-Only Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
Vahid Partovi Nia, Eyyub Sari, Vanessa Courville, Masoud Asgharian
- Springer Nature (SN) Computer Science
- Readers: Everyone
Towards fine-tuning pre-trained language models with integer forward and backward propagation
Mohammadreza Tayaranian, Alireza Ghaffari, Marzieh S. Tahaei, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Masoud Asgharian, Vahid Partovi Nia
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Accelerated Gradient Methods for Sparse Statistical Learning with Nonconvex Penalties
Kai Yang, Masoud Asgharian, Sahir Bhatnagar
- Statistics and Computing
- Readers: Everyone
Statistical Hardware Design With Multi-model Active Learning
Alireza Ghaffari, Masoud Asgharian, Yvon Savaria
- IEEE Trans on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
- Readers: Everyone
Mitigating Outlier Activations in Low-Precision Fine-Tuning of Language Models
Alireza Ghaffari, Justin Yu, Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad, Masoud Asgharian, Boxing Chen, Vahid Partovi Nia
- Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
- Readers: Everyone
Partially Shared Query-Key for Lightweight Language Models
Kai Yang, Vahid Partovi Nia, Boxing Chen, Masoud Asgharian
- 4th NeurIPS Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing Workshop (ENLSP-IV 2024).
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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