Pedram Akbarian

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I’m a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin, working with Prof. Nhat Ho.

I am interested in scalability and efficiency of large-scale machine learning models, with a specific interest in Mixture-of-Experts, Federated Learning, and Optimization by bridging theory with practical applications.

Prior to UT, I recieved my bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran.

selected publications

  1. ICLR
    Statistical Perspective of Top-K Sparse Softmax Gating Mixture of Experts
    Huy Nguyen, Pedram Akbarian, Fanqi Yan, and Nhat Ho
    In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024
  2. Is Temperature Sample Efficient for Softmax Gaussian Mixture of Experts?
    Huy Nguyen, Pedram Akbarian, and Nhat Ho
    2024
  3. A General Theory for Softmax Gating Multinomial Logistic Mixture of Experts
    Huy Nguyen, Pedram Akbarian, TrungTin Nguyen, and Nhat Ho
    ArXiv, 2023