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2026

Zero Sum SVD: Balancing Loss Sensitivity for Low Rank LLM Compression

Abbasi, A., Thrash, C., Qin, H., Sharma, S., Seifi, S. and Kolouri, S.

ICML, 2026

Diffusion-Augmented Coreset Expansion for Scalable Dataset Distillation

Abbasi, A., Imani, S., An, C., Mahalingam, G., Shrivastava, H., Diesendruck, M., Pirsiavash, H., Sharma, P. and Kolouri, S.

CVPR Workshop SynData4CV, 2026

One category one prompt: Dataset distillation using diffusion models

Abbasi, A., Shahbazi, A., Pirsiavash, H. and Kolouri, S.

CVPR Workshop SynData4CV, 2026

Neural-Augmented Kelvinlet: Real-Time Soft Tissue Deformation with Multiple Graspers

Shahbazi, A., Pereira, K., Heiselman, J.S., Akbari, E., Benson, A.C., Seifi, S., Liu, X., Johnston, G.L., Terpstra, E., Draaisma, A., Severes, J.J., Wu, J. Y., Simaan, N., Miga, M. L., and Kolouri, S.

AAAI, 2026

Policy search, retrieval, and composition via task similarity in collaborative agentic systems.

Nath, S., Peridis, C., Benjamin, E., Liu, X., Kolouri, S., Kinnell, P., Li, Z., Liu, C., Dora, S. and Soltoggio, A.

AAAI 2026

2025

Knowledge distillation and dataset distillation of large language models: Emerging trends, challenges, and future directions.

Fang, Luyang, Xiaowei Yu, Jiazhang Cai, Yongkai Chen, Shushan Wu, Zhengliang Liu, Zhenyuan Yang et al.

Artificial Intelligence Review, 2025

ESPformer: Doubly-Stochastic Attention with Expected Sliced Transport Plans

Shahbazi, A., Akbari, E., Salehi, D., Liu, X., NaderiAlizadeh, N., Kolouri, S.

ICML, 2025

MCNC: Manifold-Constrained Reparameterization for Neural Compression

Thrash, C., Andreas, R., Abbasi, A., Nooralinejad, P., Koohpayegani, S.A., Pirsiavash, H., Kolouri, S.

ICLR, 2025

Wasserstein task embedding for measuring task similarities

Liu, X., Bai, Y., Lu, Y., Soltoggio, A., Kolouri, S.

Neural Networks, 2025

Linear Spherical Sliced Optimal Transport: A Fast Metric for Comparing Spherical Data

Liu, X., Bai, Y., Diaz Martin, R., Shi, K., Shahbazi, A., Landman, B.A., Chang, C., Kolouri, S.

ICLR, 2025

Linear Partial Gromov-Wasserstein Embedding

Bai, Y., Kothapalli, A., Du, H., Diaz Martin, R., Kolouri, S.

ICLR, 2025

Expected Sliced Transport Plans

Liu, X., Diaz Martin, R., Bai, Y., Shahbazi, A., Thorpe, M., Aldroubi, A., Kolouri, S.

ICLR, 2025

2024

Stereographic Spherical Sliced Wasserstein Distances

Tran, H., Bai, Y., Kothapalli, A., Shahbazi, A., Liu, X., Martin, R.D. and Kolouri, S.

ICML, 2024

Statistical Context Detection for Deep Lifelong Reinforcement Learning

Dick, J., Nath, S., Peridis, C., Ben-Iwhiwhu, E., Kolouri, S., Soltoggio, A.

CoLLAs, 2024

A collective AI via lifelong learning and sharing at the edge

Soltoggio, A., Ben-Iwhiwhu, E., Braverman, V., Eaton, E., Epstein, B., Ge, Y., ... & Kolouri, S.

Nature Machine Intelligence, 6(3), 251-264

BrainWash: A Poisoning Attack to Forget in Continual Learning

Abbasi, A., Nooralinejad, P., Pirsiavash, H. and Kolouri, S.

CVPR, 2024

LCOT: Linear circular optimal transport

Martin, R.D., Medri, I., Bai, Y., Liu, X., Yan, K., Rohde, G.K. and Kolouri, S.

ICLR, 2024

NOLA: Compressing LoRA using Linear Combination of Random Basis

Koohpayegani, S.A., Navaneet, K.L., Nooralinejad, P., Kolouri, S. and Pirsiavash, H.

ICLR, 2024

SLOSH: Set LOcality Sensitive Hashing via Sliced-Wasserstein Embeddings

Lu, Y., Liu, X., Soltoggio, A., Kolouri, S.

WACV, 2024

2023

Sliced optimal partial transport

Bai, Y., Schmitzer, B., Thorpe, M. and Kolouri, S.

CVPR, 2023

Linear optimal partial transport embedding

Bai, Y., Medri, I.V., Martin, R.D., Shahroz, R. and Kolouri, S.

ICML, 2023

PRANC: Pseudo random networks for compacting deep models

Nooralinejad, P., Abbasi, A., Koohpayegani, S.A., Meibodi, K.P., Khan, R.M.S., Kolouri, S. and Pirsiavash, H.

ICCV, 2023

Characterizing out-of-distribution error via optimal transport

Lu, Y., Qin, Y., Zhai, R., Shen, A., Chen, K., Wang, Z., Kolouri, S., Stepputtis, S., Campbell, J. and Sycara, K.

NeurIPS, 2023

Multi-Agent Lifelong Implicit Neural Learning

Kolouri, S., Abbasi, A., Koohpayegani, S.A., Nooralinejad, P. and Pirsiavash, H.

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2023

Lifelong Reinforcement Learning with Modulating Masks

Ben-Iwhiwhu, E., Nath, S., Pilly, P.K., Kolouri, S. and Soltoggio, A.

TMLR, 2023

Sharing lifelong reinforcement learning knowledge via modulating masks

Nath, S., Peridis, C., Ben-Iwhiwhu, E., Liu, X., Dora, S., Liu, C., Kolouri, S. and Soltoggio, A.

CoLLAs, 2023

Is Multi-Task Learning an Upper Bound for Continual Learning?

Wu, Z., Tran, H., Pirsiavash, H. and Kolouri, S.

ICASSP, 2023

2022

Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines

Kudithipudi, D., Aguilar-Simon, M., Babb, J., Bazhenov, M., Blackiston, D., Bongard, J., ... & Siegelmann, H.

Nature Machine Intelligence, 2022

Sparsity and heterogeneous dropout for continual learning in the null space of neural activations

Abbasi, A., Nooralinejad, P., Braverman, V., Pirsiavash, H. and Kolouri, S.

CoLLAs, 2022

Generalized sliced probability metrics

Kolouri, S., Nadjahi, K., Shahrampour, S. and Şimşekli, U.

ICASSP, 2022 (Best Paper Award)

2021

SLOSH: Set LOcality Sensitive Hashing via Sliced-Wasserstein Embeddings

Lu, Y., Liu, X., Soltoggio, A., Kolouri, S.

Preprint

Pooling by Sliced-Wasserstein Embeddings

Naderializadeh, N., Comer, J.F., Andrews, R.W., Hoffmann, H., and Kolouri, S.

NeurIPS, 2021

Lifelong Learning with Sketched Structural Regularization

Li, H., Krishnan, A., Wu, J., Kolouri, S., Pilly, P.K. and Braverman, V.

ACML 2021

Set Representation Learning with Generalized Sliced-Wasserstein Embeddings

Naderializadeh, N., Kolouri, S., Comer, J.F., Andrews, R.W. and Hoffmann, H.

Preprint

Radon cumulative distribution transform subspace modeling for image classification

Shifat-E-Rabbi, M., Yin, X., Rubaiyat, A.H.M., Li, S., Kolouri, S., Aldroubi, A., Nichols, J.M. and Rohde, G.K.

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 63, no. 9 (2021): 1185-1203

Deep Reinforcement Learning With Modulated Hebbian Plus Q-Network Architecture

Ladosz, Pawel, Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu, Jeffery Dick, Nicholas Ketz, Soheil Kolouri, Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Praveen K. Pilly, and Andrea Soltoggio.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2021)

Wasserstein Embedding for Graph Learning

Kolouri, S., Naderializadeh, N., Rohde, G.K. and Hoffmann, H.

ICLR 2021

System and method for direct learning from raw tomographic data

Kolouri, S.

US Patent 11,037,030

Machine-vision method to classify input data based on object components

Kolouri, S., Martin, C.E. and Hoffmann, H.

U.S. Patent 11,023,789

Attribute aware zero shot machine vision system via joint sparse representations

Kolouri, S., Rostami, M., Kim, K. and Owechko, Y.

U.S. Patent 10,908,616

### 2020

_Universal Litmus Patterns: Revealing backdoor attacks in CNNs_

Kolouri, S., Saha, A., Pirsiavash, H. and Hoffmann, H. CVPR, 2020

Sliced cramer synaptic consolidation for preserving deeply learned representations

Kolouri, S., Ketz, N.A., Soltoggio, A. and Pilly, P.K.

ICLR, 2020

GAT: Generative Adversarial Training for Adversarial Example Detection and Classification

Yin, X., Kolouri, S. and Rohde, G.K.

ICLR, 2020

Statistical and topological properties of sliced probability divergences

Nadjahi, K., Durmus, A., Chizat, L., Kolouri, S., Shahrampour, S. and Şimşekli, U.

NeurIPS, 2020

Generative continual concept learning

Rostami, M., Kolouri, S., Pilly, P. and McClelland, J.

AAAI, 2020

Neural Networks, Hypersurfaces, and the Generalized Radon Transform

Kolouri, S., Yin, X. and Rohde, G.K.

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2020

Neuromodulated attention and goal-driven perception in uncertain domains

Zou, X., Kolouri, S., Pilly, P.K. and Krichmar, J.L.

Neural Networks, 125, pp.56-69

Detecting changes and avoiding catastrophic forgetting in dynamic partially observable environments

Dick, J., Ladosz, P., Ben-Iwhiwhu, E., Shimadzu, H., Kinnell, P., Pilly, P.K., Kolouri, S. and Soltoggio, A.

Frontiers in neurorobotics, 14, 2020

SAR automatic target recognition with less labels

Comer, J.F., Andrews, R.W., Naderializadeh, N., Kolouri, S. and Hoffman, H.

International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2020

Method and system for detecting change of context in video streams

Martin, C.E., Stepp, N.D., Kolouri, S. and Hoffmann, H.

U.S. Patent 10,878,276

Method for understanding machine-learning decisions based on camera data

Martin, C.E., Kolouri, S. and Hoffmann, H.

U.S. Patent 10,803,356

Prediction of multi-agent adversarial movements through signature-formations using radon-cumulative distribution transform and canonical correlation analysis

Kolouri, S., Rahimi, A.M. and Bhattacharyya, R.

U.S. Patent 10,755,424

Zero shot machine vision system via joint sparse representations

Kolouri, S., Rao, S.R. and Kim, K.

U.S. Patent 10,755,149

Machine-vision system for discriminant localization of objects

Kolouri, S., Martin, C.E. and Hoffmann, H.

U.S. Patent 10,691,972

Machine vision system for recognizing novel objects

Kolouri, S., Martin, C.E., Kim, K. and Hoffmann, H.

U.S. Patent 10,607,111

Explicit prediction of adversary movements with canonical correlation analysis

Rahimi, A.M., Kolouri, S. and Bhattacharyya, R.

U.S. Patent 10,583,324