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Elaheh Akbari
dblp:361/7584
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 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
2 papers |
Deep learning architectures and training · 72% Robot manipulation · 28% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Computer animation and physical simulation · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot manipulation › medical robotics
surgical robotics |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Neural-Augmented Kelvinlet for Real-Time Soft Tissue Deformation Modeling · AAAI 2026 |
Medical and health informatics › medical simulation › surgical simulation
soft tissue deformation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Neural-Augmented Kelvinlet for Real-Time Soft Tissue Deformation Modeling · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
attention mechanism |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ESPFormer: Doubly-Stochastic Attention with Expected Sliced Transport Plans · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › regularization › attention regularization
doubly stochastic attention |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ESPFormer: Doubly-Stochastic Attention with Expected Sliced Transport Plans · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › attention mechanism › structured attention
optimal transport attention |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ESPFormer: Doubly-Stochastic Attention with Expected Sliced Transport Plans · ICML 2025 |
Computer animation and physical simulation
deformation simulation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Neural-Augmented Kelvinlet for Real-Time Soft Tissue Deformation Modeling · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
neural approximation · 3.0kelvinlet priors · 3.0finite element method · 3.0soft sorting · 0.9sliced optimal transport · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Neural-Augmented Kelvinlet for Real-Time Soft Tissue Deformation ModelingabstractAccurate and efficient modeling of soft-tissue interactions is fundamental for advancing surgical simulation, surgical robotics, and model-based surgical automation. To achieve real-time latency, classical Finite Element Method (FEM) solvers are often replaced with neural approximations; however, naively training such models in a fully data-driven manner without incorporating physical priors frequently leads to poor generalization and physically implausible predictions. We present a novel physics-informed neural simulation framework that enables real-time prediction of soft-tissue deformations under complex single- and multi-grasper interactions. Our approach integrates Kelvinlet-based analytical priors with large-scale FEM data, capturing both linear and nonlinear tissue responses. This hybrid design improves predictive accuracy and physical plausibility across diverse neural architectures while maintaining the low-latency performance required for interactive applications. We validate our method on challenging surgical manipulation tasks involving standard laparoscopic grasping tools, demonstrating substantial improvements in deformation fidelity and temporal stability over existing baselines. These results establish Kelvinlet-augmented learning as a principled and computationally efficient paradigm for real-time, physics-aware soft-tissue simulation in surgical AI. Ashkan Shahbazi, Kyvia Pereira, Jon S. Heiselman, Elaheh Akbari, Annie C. Benson, Sepehr Seifi, Garrison L. H. Johnston, Jie Ying Wu, Nabil Simaan, Michael I. Miga, Soheil Kolouri |
AAAI | 4 |
| 2025 | ESPFormer: Doubly-Stochastic Attention with Expected Sliced Transport PlansabstractWhile self-attention has been instrumental in the success of Transformers, it can lead to over-concentration on a few tokens during training, resulting in suboptimal information flow. Enforcing doubly-stochastic constraints in attention matrices has been shown to improve structure and balance in attention distributions. However, existing methods rely on iterative Sinkhorn normalization, which is computationally costly. In this paper, we introduce a novel, fully parallelizable doubly-stochastic attention mechanism based on sliced optimal transport, leveraging Expected Sliced Transport Plans (ESP). Unlike prior approaches, our method enforces doubly stochasticity without iterative Sinkhorn normalization, significantly enhancing efficiency. To ensure differentiability, we incorporate a temperature-based soft sorting technique, enabling seamless integration into deep learning models. Experiments across multiple benchmark datasets, including image classification, point cloud classification, sentiment analysis, and neural machine translation, demonstrate that our enhanced attention regularization consistently improves performance across diverse applications. Our implementation code can be found at \url{https://github.com/dariansal/ESPFormer}. Ashkan Shahbazi, Elaheh Akbari, Darian Salehi, Navid NaderiAlizadeh, Soheil Kolouri |
ICML | 2 |