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Parham Rezaei
dblp:351/2419
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 44% Reinforcement learning · 44% Generative modeling · 13% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › bandit
bandit optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Be More Diverse than the Most Diverse: Optimal Mixtures of Generative Models via Mixture-UCB Bandit Algorithms · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › structured models › latent variable model › discrete latent variable model
generative mixture models |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Be More Diverse than the Most Diverse: Optimal Mixtures of Generative Models via Mixture-UCB Bandit Algorithms · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
upper confidence bound · 0.9quadratic optimization · 0.9multi-armed bandit · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Be More Diverse than the Most Diverse: Optimal Mixtures of Generative Models via Mixture-UCB Bandit AlgorithmsabstractThe availability of multiple training algorithms and architectures for generative models requires a selection mechanism to form a single model over a group of well-trained generation models. The selection task is commonly addressed by identifying the model that maximizes an evaluation score based on the diversity and quality of the generated data. However, such a best-model identification approach overlooks the possibility that a mixture of available models can outperform each individual model. In this work, we numerically show that a mixture of generative models on benchmark image datasets can indeed achieve a better evaluation score (based on FID and KID scores), compared to the individual models. This observation motivates the development of efficient algorithms for selecting the optimal mixture of the models. To address this, we formulate a quadratic optimization problem to find an optimal mixture model achieving the maximum of kernel-based evaluation scores including kernel inception distance (KID) and Rényi kernel entropy (RKE). To identify the optimal mixture of the models using the fewest possible sample queries, we view the selection task as a multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem and propose the *Mixture Upper Confidence Bound (Mixture-UCB)* algorithm that provably converges to the optimal mixture of the involved models. More broadly, the proposed Mixture-UCB can be extended to optimize every convex quadratic function of the mixture weights in a general MAB setting. We prove a regret bound for the Mixture-UCB algorithm and perform several numerical experiments to show the success of Mixture-UCB in finding the optimal mixture of text and image generative models. The project code is available in the [Mixture-UCB Github repository](https://github.com/Rezaei-Parham/Mixture-UCB). Parham Rezaei, Farzan Farnia, Cheuk Ting Li |
ICLR | 1 |