Ali Ghodsi

Professor, University of Waterloo

[first name].[last name] [AT] uwaterloo.ca

Ali Ghodsi is a professor at the University of Waterloo, the Director of the Data Science Lab, and a Vector Institute Faculty Affiliate, specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. His research centers on developing theoretical frameworks and practical algorithms in AI, with applications spanning natural language processing, bioinformatics, and computer vision.

He is the co-author of Elements of Deep Learning (Springer, 2026) and Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning (Springer, 2024). His widely viewed lectures on YouTube provide accessible insights into complex AI topics for a broad audience.

Vitæ

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Prospective Students

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Data Science Lab

The Data Science Lab, directed by Ali Ghodsi, focuses on advancing the theoretical foundations and developing innovative algorithms in machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. While our primary emphasis is on designing novel methodologies, our research also explores impactful applications in areas such as natural language processing and bioinformatics.

Current Members
  • Mahdi Karami — Senior Scientist, Research Scientist @ Google Research
  • Alireza Ghadimi — PhD Student
  • Aref Jafari — PhD Student
  • Daniel Zhang — PhD Student
  • Max Homm — Master's Student
  • Kefah Alshaer — Master's Student
Alumni
  • Lena Podina — Postdoctoral Fellow @ MIT
  • Amin Ravanbakhsh — ML Engineer @ Huawei
  • Mojtaba Moodi
  • Zhang Ma — Software Developer @ Hammond Power Solutions
  • Babak Alipanahi — Co-founder and CSO @ Exai Bio
  • Tameem Adel — Assistant Professor @ University of Cambridge
  • Pooyan Khajehpour Tadavoni — Software Engineer @ Google
  • Ahmed Farahat — Principal Research Scientist @ Hitachi America
  • Mehrdad Jabarzadeh Gangeh — Principal Imaging Scientist @ Roche
  • Rui Qiao — Applied Scientist @ Amazon
  • Maysum Panju — NLP Scientist @ Adeptmind
  • Ershad Banijamali — Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence @ Amazon
  • Daniel Severn — PhD Graduate
  • Mojtaba Valipour — Founding Engineer @ Coastal Carbon
  • Amir-Hossein Karimi — Assistant Professor @ University of Waterloo
  • Bowen You — Co-founder @ Fairblock
  • Benyamin Jamialahmadi — NLP Research Scientist
  • Maryam Yalsavar — Master’s Graduate
  • Ali Saheb Pasand — Researcher @ Mila/McGill
  • Amirreza Lashkari — AI Researcher @ Amazon
  • Elnaz Barshan — Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Google
  • Jinchao Lin — Software Engineer @ Google
  • Grace Yang — Software Engineer, Machine Learning @ Meta
  • Fatemeh Dorri — Principal Bioinformatics Scientist @ Roche
  • Trevor Sabourin — Family Physician
  • Hadi Zarkoob — Senior Data Scientist @ Genalyte, Inc.
  • Stefan Pintilie — Compiler Optimization Developer @ IBM
  • Maryam Iraniparast — Data Analyst @ University of Waterloo
  • Teaching

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    Previously Taught Courses
    Deep Learning
    Deep Learning
    Supervised Learning
    Supervised Learning
    Unsupervised Learning
    Unsupervised Learning

    Publications

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    • Book
    • Journals
    • Conferences
    • Selected

    Auto-Regressive Masked Diffusion Models

    Karami, Mahdi, Ghodsi, Ali

    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2026

    Learning chemotherapy drug action via universal physics-informed neural networks

    Podina, Lena and Ghodsi, Ali and Kohandel, Mohammad

    Pharmaceutical Research, 2025

    Orchid: Flexible and Data-Dependent Convolution for Sequence Modeling

    Karami, Mahdi, Ghodsi, Ali

    NeurIPS, 2024

    GraphPI: Efficient Protein Inference with Graph Neural Networks

    Ma, Zheng, Chen, Jiazhen, Xin, Lei, Ghodsi, Ali

    Journal of Proteome Research, 2024

    Qdylora: Quantized dynamic low-rank adaptation for efficient large language model tuning

    Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Valipour, Mojtaba, Zhu, Tianshu, Tahaei, Marzieh, Kwon, Hyock Ju, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    emnlp-industry, 2024

    Efficient Citer: Tuning Large Language Models for Enhanced Answer Quality and Verification

    Tahaei, Marzieh, Jafari, Aref, Rashid, Ahmad, Alfonso-Hermelo, David, Bibi, Khalil, Wu, Yimeng, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL, 2024

    Echoatt: Attend, copy, then adjust for more efficient large language models

    Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Jafari, Aref, Sharma, Aman, Jami, Benyamin, Kwon, Hyock Ju, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-IV) workshop, 2024

    Systems and methods for de novo peptide sequencing using deep learning and spectrum pairs

    Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Lei, XIN, Chen, Xin, Baozhen, SHAN, Ghodsi, Ali, Li, Ming

    , 2023

    Do we need Label Regularization to Fine-tune Pre-trained Language Model

    Kobyzev, Ivan, Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Li, Tianda, Do-Omri, Alan, Lu, Peng, Ghodsi, Ali, Poupart, Pascal

    Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

    Sorted LLaMA: Unlocking the Potential of Intermediate Layers of Large Language Models for Dynamic Inference Using Sorted Fine-Tuning (SoFT)

    Kavehzadeh, Parsa, Valipour, Mojtaba, Tahaei, Marzieh, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08968, 2023

    Continuation kd: Improved knowledge distillation through the lens of continuation optimization

    Jafari, Aref, Kobyzev, Ivan, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Poupart, Pascal, Ghodsi, Ali

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

    Supervised discriminative dimensionality reduction by learning multiple transformation operators

    Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Jahromi, Mansoor Zolghadri, Ghodsi, Ali

    Expert Systems with Applications, 2021

    CNN and deep sets for end-to-end whole slide image representation learning

    Hemati, Sobhan, Kalra, Shivam, Meaney, Cameron, Babaie, Morteza, Ghodsi, Ali, Tizhoosh, Hamid

    Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2021

    Computationally instrument-resolution-independent de novo peptide sequencing for high-resolution devices

    Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Xin, Lei, Chen, Xin, Li, Ming, Shan, Baozhen, Ghodsi, Ali

    Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021

    Knowledge distillation by utilizing backward pass knowledge in neural networks

    Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Ghodsi, Ali

    Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP workshop), 2021

    Annealing knowledge distillation

    Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Sharma, Pranav, Ghodsi, Ali

    Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021

    How to select one among all? an extensive empirical study towards the robustness of knowledge distillation in natural language understanding

    Li, Tianda, Rashid, Ahmad, Jafari, Aref, Sharma, Pranav, Ghodsi, Ali, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021

    Pro-KD: Progressive distillation by following the footsteps of the teacher

    Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Jafari, Aref, Salad, Puneeth, Sharma, Pranav, Pasand, Ali Saheb, Ghodsi, Ali

    Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022, 2021

    Deep learning enables de novo peptide sequencing from data-independent-acquisition mass spectrometry

    Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Qiao, Rui, Xin, Lei, Chen, Xin, Liu, Chuyi, Zhang, Xianglilan, Shan, Baozhen, Ghodsi, Ali, Li, Ming

    Nature methods, 2019

    Deepnovov2: Better de novo peptide sequencing with deep learning

    Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Xin, Lei, Shan, Baozhen, Li, Ming, Ghodsi, Ali

    arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08514, 2019

    Robust locally-linear controllable embedding

    Banijamali, Ershad, Shu, Rui, Bui, Hung, Ghodsi, Ali, others

    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2018

    Ensembles of random projections for nonlinear dimensionality reduction

    Karimi, Amir Hossein, Shafiee, Mohammad Javad, Ghodsi, Ali, Wong, Alexander

    Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems, 2017

    Minimizing the discrepancy between source and target domains by learning adapting components

    Dorri, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali

    Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2014

    Adapting component analysis

    Dorri, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali

    2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining, 2012

    An efficient greedy method for unsupervised feature selection

    Farahat, Ahmed K, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

    2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining, 2011

    Robust locally linear embedding using penalty functions

    Winlaw, Manda, Dehkordy, Leila Samimi, Ghodsi, Ali

    The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

    Parameter selection for smoothing splines using Stein's unbiased risk estimator

    Seifzadeh, Sepideh, Rostami, Mohammad, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhreddine

    The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

    Nonnegative matrix factorization via rank-one downdate

    Biggs, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Vavasis, Stephen

    Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Machine learning, 2008

    Subjective localization with action respecting embedding

    Bowling, Michael, Wilkinson, Dana, Ghodsi, Ali, Milstein, Adam

    Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, 2007

    Action respecting embedding

    Bowling, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Wilkinson, Dana

    Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning, 2005

    A novel greedy algorithm for Nystrom approximation

    Farahat, Ahmed, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed

    Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics,

    Learning chemotherapy drug action via universal physics-informed neural networks

    Podina, Lena and Ghodsi, Ali and Kohandel, Mohammad

    Pharmaceutical Research, 2025

    GraphPI: Efficient Protein Inference with Graph Neural Networks

    Ma, Zheng, Chen, Jiazhen, Xin, Lei, Ghodsi, Ali

    Journal of Proteome Research, 2024

    A new approach to the numerical solution of Fredholm integral equations using least squares-support vector regression

    Parand, K, Aghaei, Alireza Afzal, Jani, Mostafa, Ghodsi, Ali

    Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2021

    Supervised discriminative dimensionality reduction by learning multiple transformation operators

    Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Jahromi, Mansoor Zolghadri, Ghodsi, Ali

    Expert Systems with Applications, 2021

    Fine-tuning and training of densenet for histopathology image representation using tcga diagnostic slides

    Riasatian, Abtin, Babaie, Morteza, Maleki, Danial, Kalra, Shivam, Valipour, Mojtaba, Hemati, Sobhan, Zaveri, Manit, Safarpoor, Amir, Shafiei, Sobhan, Afshari, Mehdi, others

    Medical image analysis, 2021

    Computationally instrument-resolution-independent de novo peptide sequencing for high-resolution devices

    Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Xin, Lei, Chen, Xin, Li, Ming, Shan, Baozhen, Ghodsi, Ali

    Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021

    Fractional Chebyshev deep neural network (FCDNN) for solving differential models

    Hajimohammadi, Zeinab, Baharifard, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali, Parand, Kourosh

    Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 2021

    Discriminant component analysis via distance correlation maximization

    Abdi, Lida, Ghodsi, Ali

    Pattern Recognition, 2020

    Sentiment analysis based on improved pre-trained word embeddings

    Rezaeinia, Seyed Mahdi, Rahmani, Rouhollah, Ghodsi, Ali, Veisi, Hadi

    Expert Systems with Applications, 2019

    Deep learning enables de novo peptide sequencing from data-independent-acquisition mass spectrometry

    Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Qiao, Rui, Xin, Lei, Chen, Xin, Liu, Chuyi, Zhang, Xianglilan, Shan, Baozhen, Ghodsi, Ali, Li, Ming

    Nature methods, 2019

    Advances in projection of climate change impacts using supervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques

    Sarhadi, Ali, Burn, Donald H, Yang, Ge, Ghodsi, Ali

    Climate dynamics, 2017

    Fast and scalable feature selection for gene expression data using hilbert-schmidt independence criterion

    Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Zarkoob, Hadi, Ghodsi, Ali

    IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics, 2017

    Sparse supervised principal component analysis (SSPCA) for dimension reduction and variable selection

    Sharifzadeh, Sara, Ghodsi, Ali, Clemmensen, Line H, Ersbll, Bjarne K

    Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2017

    Ensembles of random projections for nonlinear dimensionality reduction

    Karimi, Amir Hossein, Shafiee, Mohammad Javad, Ghodsi, Ali, Wong, Alexander

    Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems, 2017

    Greedy column subset selection for large-scale data sets

    Farahat, Ahmed K, Elgohary, Ahmed, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

    Knowledge and Information Systems, 2015

    Minimizing the discrepancy between source and target domains by learning adapting components

    Dorri, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali

    Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2014

    Efficient greedy feature selection for unsupervised learning

    Farahat, Ahmed K, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

    Knowledge and information systems, 2013

    Kernelized supervised dictionary learning

    Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2013

    Discriminative functional analysis of human movements

    Samadani, Ali-Akbar, Ghodsi, Ali, Kulic

    Pattern Recognition Letters, 2013

    Supervised principal component analysis: Visualization, classification and regression on subspaces and submanifolds

    Barshan, Elnaz, Ghodsi, Ali, Azimifar, Zohreh, Jahromi, Mansoor Zolghadri

    Pattern Recognition, 2011

    Guided locally linear embedding

    Alipanahi, Babak, Ghodsi, Ali

    Pattern recognition letters, 2011

    Automatic basis selection techniques for RBF networks

    Ghodsi, Ali, Schuurmans, Dale

    Neural Networks, 2003

    Automatic dimensionality selection from the scree plot via the use of profile likelihood

    Zhu, Mu, Ghodsi, Ali

    Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,

    Elements of deep learning

    Ghojogh, Benyamin and Ghodsi, Ali

    Springer, 2026

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    Elements of dimensionality reduction and manifold learning

    Ghojogh, Benyamin and Crowley, Mark and Karray, Fakhri and Ghodsi, Ali

    Springer, 2024

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    Auto-Regressive Masked Diffusion Models

    Karami, Mahdi, Ghodsi, Ali

    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2026

    Orchid: Flexible and Data-Dependent Convolution for Sequence Modeling

    Karami, Mahdi, Ghodsi, Ali

    NeurIPS, 2024

    Qdylora: Quantized dynamic low-rank adaptation for efficient large language model tuning

    Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Valipour, Mojtaba, Zhu, Tianshu, Tahaei, Marzieh, Kwon, Hyock Ju, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    emnlp-industry, 2024

    Sorted LLaMA: Unlocking the Potential of Intermediate Layers of Large Language Models for Dynamic Inference

    Kavehzadeh, Parsa, Valipour, Mojtaba, Tahaei, Marzieh, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL, 2024

    Efficient Citer: Tuning Large Language Models for Enhanced Answer Quality and Verification

    Tahaei, Marzieh, Jafari, Aref, Rashid, Ahmad, Alfonso-Hermelo, David, Bibi, Khalil, Wu, Yimeng, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL, 2024

    S2D: Sorted Speculative Decoding For More Efficient Deployment of Nested Large Language Models

    Kavehzadeh, Parsa, Pourreza, Mohammadreza, Valipour, Mojtaba, Zhu, Tinashu, Bai, Haoli, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01955, 2024

    Echoatt: Attend, copy, then adjust for more efficient large language models

    Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Jafari, Aref, Sharma, Aman, Jami, Benyamin, Kwon, Hyock Ju, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-IV) workshop, 2024

    Do we need Label Regularization to Fine-tune Pre-trained Language Model

    Kobyzev, Ivan, Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Li, Tianda, Do-Omri, Alan, Lu, Peng, Ghodsi, Ali, Poupart, Pascal

    Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

    Sortednet, a place for every network and every network in its place: Towards a generalized solution for training many-in-one neural networks

    Valipour, Mojtaba, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Tahaei, Marzieh, Chen, Boxing, Ghodsi, Ali

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00255, 2023

    When chosen wisely, more data is what you need: A universal sample-efficient strategy for data augmentation

    Kamalloo, Ehsan, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Ghodsi, Ali

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09391, 2022

    Theoretical Connection between Locally Linear Embedding, Factor Analysis, and Probabilistic PCA.

    Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

    Canadian AI, 2022

    KroneckerBERT: Significant compression of pre-trained language models through kronecker decomposition and knowledge distillation

    Tahaei, Marzieh, Charlaix, Ella, Nia, Vahid, Ghodsi, Ali, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

    Dylora: Parameter efficient tuning of pre-trained models using dynamic search-free low-rank adaptation

    Valipour, Mojtaba, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Kobyzev, Ivan, Ghodsi, Ali

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07558, 2022

    Continuation kd: Improved knowledge distillation through the lens of continuation optimization

    Jafari, Aref, Kobyzev, Ivan, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Poupart, Pascal, Ghodsi, Ali

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

    CNN and deep sets for end-to-end whole slide image representation learning

    Hemati, Sobhan, Kalra, Shivam, Meaney, Cameron, Babaie, Morteza, Ghodsi, Ali, Tizhoosh, Hamid

    Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2021

    Knowledge distillation by utilizing backward pass knowledge in neural networks

    Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Ghodsi, Ali

    Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP workshop), 2021

    Lakehouse: a new generation of open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics

    Armbrust, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Xin, Reynold, Zaharia, Matei

    Proceedings of CIDR, 2021

    Annealing knowledge distillation

    Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Sharma, Pranav, Ghodsi, Ali

    Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021

    Not far away, not so close: Sample efficient nearest neighbour data augmentation via minimax

    Kamalloo, Ehsan, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Passban, Peyman, Ghodsi, Ali

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13608, 2021

    Symbolicgpt: A generative transformer model for symbolic regression

    Valipour, Mojtaba, You, Bowen, Panju, Maysum, Ghodsi, Ali

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.14131, 2021

    How to select one among all? an extensive empirical study towards the robustness of knowledge distillation in natural language understanding

    Li, Tianda, Rashid, Ahmad, Jafari, Aref, Sharma, Pranav, Ghodsi, Ali, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021

    Pro-KD: Progressive distillation by following the footsteps of the teacher

    Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Jafari, Aref, Salad, Puneeth, Sharma, Pranav, Pasand, Ali Saheb, Ghodsi, Ali

    Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022, 2021

    Universal-KD: Attention-based output-grounded intermediate layer knowledge distillation

    Wu, Yimeng, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Ghaddar, Abbas, Haidar, Md Akmal, Ghodsi, Ali

    Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

    Fully Convolutional Networks in Localization and Classification of Cell Nuclei

    Bidart, Rene, Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Peikari, Mohammad, Salama, Sherine, Nofech-Mozes, Sharon, Nofech, Sharon, Martel, Anne L, Ghodsi, Ali

    , 2019

    Robust locally-linear controllable embedding

    Banijamali, Ershad, Shu, Rui, Bui, Hung, Ghodsi, Ali, others

    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2018

    Localization and classification of cell nuclei in post-neoadjuvant breast cancer surgical specimen using fully convolutional networks

    Bidart, Rene, Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Peikari, Mohammad, Salama, Sherine, Nofech-Mozes, Sharon, Martel, Anne L, Ghodsi, Ali

    Medical Imaging 2018: Digital Pathology, 2018

    Distance correlation autoencoder

    Wang, Rick, Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Ghodsi, Ali

    2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018

    Nonnegative matrix factorization using autoencoders and exponentiated gradient descent

    El Khatib, Alaa, Huang, Shimeng, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri

    2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018

    Generative mixture of networks

    Banijamali, Ershad, Ghodsi, Ali, Popuart, Pascal

    2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2017

    Fast spectral clustering using autoencoders and landmarks

    Banijamali, Ershad, Ghodsi, Ali

    International Conference Image Analysis and Recognition, 2017

    Discovery radiomics via a mixture of deep convnet sequencers for multi-parametric MRI prostate cancer classification

    Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Chung, Audrey G, Shafiee, Mohammad Javad, Khalvati, Farzad, Haider, Masoom A, Ghodsi, Ali, Wong, Alexander

    Image Analysis and Recognition: 14th International Conference, ICIAR 2017, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 5--7, 2017, Proceedings 14, 2017

    Semi-supervised dictionary learning based on hilbert-schmidt independence criterion

    Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Bedawi, Safaa MA, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri

    Image Analysis and Recognition: 13th International Conference, ICIAR 2016, in Memory of Mohamed Kamel, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings 13, 2016

    A dimension-independent generalization bound for kernel supervised principal component analysis

    Ashtiani, Hassan, Ghodsi, Ali

    Feature Extraction: Modern Questions and Challenges, 2015

    Learning the Structure of Sum-Product Networks via an SVD-based Algorithm.

    Adel, Tameem, Balduzzi, David, Ghodsi, Ali

    UAI, 2015

    Manifold unfolding by isometric patch alignment with an application in protein structure determination

    Tadavani, Pooyan Khajehpour, Alipanahi, Babak, Ghodsi, Ali

    Perspectives on Big Data Analysis: Methodologies and Applications, 2014

    Distributed column subset selection on mapreduce

    Farahat, Ahmed K, Elgohary, Ahmed, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

    2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining, 2013

    Protein structure by semidefinite facial reduction

    Alipanahi, Babak, Krislock, Nathan, Ghodsi, Ali, Wolkowicz, Henry, Donaldson, Logan, Li, Ming

    Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 16th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 21-24, 2012. Proceedings 16, 2012

    Adapting component analysis

    Dorri, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali

    2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining, 2012

    An efficient greedy method for unsupervised feature selection

    Farahat, Ahmed K, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

    2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining, 2011

    Robust locally linear embedding using penalty functions

    Winlaw, Manda, Dehkordy, Leila Samimi, Ghodsi, Ali

    The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

    Parameter selection for smoothing splines using Stein's unbiased risk estimator

    Seifzadeh, Sepideh, Rostami, Mohammad, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhreddine

    The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

    Rare class classification by support vector machine

    He, He, Ghodsi, Ali

    2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010

    Learning an affine transformation for non-linear dimensionality reduction

    Tadavani, Pooyan Khajehpour, Ghodsi, Ali

    Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II 21, 2010

    Distance metric learning vs. fisher discriminant analysis

    Alipanahi, Babak, Biggs, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, others

    Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence, 2008

    Nonnegative matrix factorization via rank-one downdate

    Biggs, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Vavasis, Stephen

    Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Machine learning, 2008

    Scalable Action Respecting Embedding.

    Biggs, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Wilkinson, Dana F, Bowling, Michael H

    ISAIM, 2008

    Subjective localization with action respecting embedding

    Bowling, Michael, Wilkinson, Dana, Ghodsi, Ali, Milstein, Adam

    Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, 2007

    Subjective mapping

    Bowling, Michael, Wilkinson, Dana, Ghodsi, Ali

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2006

    Semi-Supervised Representation Learning based on Probabilistic Labeling

    , 2006

    Tangent-corrected embedding

    Ghodsi, Ali, Huang, Jiayuan, Southey, Finnegan, Schuurmans, Dale

    2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05), 2005

    Action respecting embedding

    Bowling, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Wilkinson, Dana

    Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning, 2005

    Learning Subjective Representations for Planning.

    Wilkinson, Dana F, Bowling, Michael H, Ghodsi, Ali

    IJCAI, 2005

    Transformation-invariant embedding for image analysis

    Ghodsi, Ali, Huang, Jiayuan, Schuurmans, Dale

    Computer Vision-ECCV 2004: 8th European Conference on Computer Vision, Prague, Czech Republic, May 11-14, 2004. Proceedings, Part IV 8, 2004

    Efficient parameter selection for system identification

    Ghodsi, Ali

    IEEE Annual Meeting of the Fuzzy Information, 2004. Processing NAFIPS'04., 2004

    Regularized greedy importance sampling

    Southey, Finnegan, Schuurmans, Dale, Ghodsi, Ali

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2002

    A novel greedy algorithm for Nystrom approximation

    Farahat, Ahmed, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed

    Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics,

    Greedy Nystrom Approximation

    Farahat, Ahmed K, Kamel, Mohamed S, Ghodsi, Ali

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    Kolmogorov complexity vector: A novel data representation

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    News

    • New Book Published:

      Our new textbook Elements of Deep Learning (Ghojogh & Ghodsi, Springer, 2026) is now published. View on Springer.

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      We are seeking passionate and motivated PhD students to join our research projects. Learn more on the Prospective Students page.

    • Teaching (Fall 2026 & Winter 2027):

      I will teach Deep Learning (STAT 940) and Statistical Learning — Classification (STAT 841) in Fall 2026 and Winter 2027. STAT 940 course outline (PDF).