Publications — Mohammed Adnan

SparseOpt: Addressing Normalization-induced Gradient Skew in Sparse Training
M. Adnan, R. Jain, T. Jacobs, E. Sharma, R.G. Krishnan, R. Burkholz, Y. Ioannou
ICML 2026 (to appear)

Paper

Generalizing the Geometry of Model Merging Through Fréchet Averages
M.F. da Silva, M. Adnan, F. Dangel, S. Oore
arXiv preprint, April 2026

arXiv

Workshop on Sparsity in LLMs (SLLM): Deep Dive into Mixture of Experts, Quantization, Hardware, and Inference
T. Chen, U. Evci, Y. Ioannou, B. Isik, S. Liu, M. Adnan, A. Nowak, A. Panda
ICLR 2025 Workshop

Workshop

Does Compression Exacerbate Large Language Models' Social Bias?
M.A. Ganaie, M. Adnan, A. Raja, S. Raza, Y. Ioannou
Muslims in ML Workshop @ ICML 2025

Paper

Understanding Normalization Layers for Sparse Training
M. Adnan, E. Sharma, R. Krishnan, Y. Ioannou
High-dimensional Learning Dynamics Workshop (HiLD @ ICML 2025)

Paper

Sparse Training from Random Initialization: Aligning Lottery Ticket Masks using Weight Symmetry
M. Adnan, R. Jain, E. Sharma, R.G. Krishnan, Y. Ioannou
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025)

arXiv

Long-Tail Learning with Language Model Guided Curricula
M. Adnan, R. Krishnan, Y. Ioannou
2024

Paper

Structured Model Pruning for Efficient Inference in Computational Pathology
M. Adnan, Q. Ba, N. Shaikh, S. Kalra, S. Mukherjee, A. Lorsakul
MICCAI Workshop on Medical Optical Imaging and Virtual Microscopy (2024)

arXiv

Detecting Shortcuts using Mutual Information
M. Adnan, Y. Ioannou, K. Tsai, A. Galloway, H. Tizhoosh, R.G. Krishnan et al.
2024

arXiv

Classification Bias on a Data Diet
T. Pote, M. Adnan, Y. Yargic, Y. Ioannou
Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL 2023)

Paper

Federated Learning and Differential Privacy for Medical Image Analysis
M. Adnan, S. Kalra, J.C. Cresswell, G.W. Taylor, H. Tizhoosh
Scientific Reports (2022)

Paper

Domain-Agnostic Clustering with Self-Distillation
M. Adnan, Y.A. Ioannou, C.Y. Tsai, G.W. Taylor
NeurIPS 2021 Workshop: Self-Supervised Learning — Theory and Practice

arXiv

Pay Attention with Focus: A Novel Learning Scheme for Classification of Whole Slide Images
S. Kalra, M. Adnan, S. Hemati et al.
MICCAI 2021

arXiv

Fine-Tuning and Training of DenseNet for Histopathology Image Representation using TCGA Diagnostic Slides
A. Riasatian, M. Babaie, D. Maleki, S. Kalra, M. Adnan et al.
Medical Image Analysis (2021)

arXiv

Learning Permutation Invariant Representations using Memory Networks
S. Kalra, M. Adnan, G. Taylor, H. Tizhoosh
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020)

arXiv

Representation Learning of Histopathology Images using Graph Neural Networks
M. Adnan, S. Kalra, H.R. Tizhoosh
CVPR Workshop 2020

arXiv