Publications

  1. On the effect of clients-server communication on the generalization error of federated learning
    Romain Chor, Milad Sefidgaran, and Abdellatif Zaidi
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2026
  2. Generalization analysis of next-token prediction learning algorithms
    Masoud Kavian, Romain Chor, Abdellatif Zaidi, and Milad Sefidgaran
    In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2026
  3. Impact of data heterogeneity on the generalization error of distributed learning algorithms
    Masoud Kavian, Romain Chor, Milad Sefidgaran, and Abdellatif Zaidi
    In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2026
  4. Tighter CMI-based generalization bounds via projection and quantization
    Milad Sefidgaran, Kimia Nadjahi, and Abdellatif Zaidi
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
  5. Generalization guarantees for representation learning via data-dependent Gaussian mixture priors
    Milad Sefidgaran, Abdellatif Zaidi, and Piotr Krasnowski
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
  6. Multi-view representation learning regularizer with Gaussian-product mixture prior
    Milad Sefidgaran and Abdellatif Zaidi
    In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2025
  7. Lessons from generalization error analysis of federated learning: you may communicate less often!
    Milad Sefidgaran, Romain Chor, Abdellatif Zaidi, and Yijun Wan
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
  8. Data-dependent generalization bounds via variable-size compressibility
    Milad Sefidgaran and Abdellatif Zaidi
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2024
    Earlier versions at ISIT 2024 and IZS 2024
  9. Minimal communication-cost statistical learning
    Milad Sefidgaran, Abdellatif Zaidi, and Piotr Krasnowski
    In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2024
  10. Minimum description length and generalization guarantees for representation learning
    Milad Sefidgaran, Abdellatif Zaidi, and Piotr Krasnowski
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
  11. More communication does not result in smaller generalization error in federated learning
    Romain Chor, Milad Sefidgaran, and Abdellatif Zaidi
    In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023
  12. Rate-distortion theoretic bounds on generalization error for distributed learning
    Milad Sefidgaran, Romain Chor, and Abdellatif Zaidi
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
  13. Rate-distortion theoretic generalization bounds for stochastic learning algorithms
    Milad Sefidgaran, Amin Gohari, Gaël Richard, and Umut Şimşekli
    In Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2022
  14. Heavy tails in SGD and compressibility of overparametrized neural networks
    Milad Sefidgaran, Melih Barsbey, Murat A. Erdogdu, Gaël Richard, and Umut Şimşekli
    In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
    The first two authors contributed equally
  15. Lower bound on the capacity of the continuous-space SSFM model of optical fiber
    Milad Sefidgaran and Mansoor Yousefi
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2021
  16. Zero-error sum modulo two with a common observation
    Milad Sefidgaran and Aslan Tchamkerten
    In IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2021
  17. On the capacity of the continuous-space SSFM model of optical fiber
    Milad Sefidgaran and Mansoor Yousefi
    In IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2021
  18. Distributed function computation over a rooted directed tree
    Milad Sefidgaran and Aslan Tchamkerten
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2016
  19. On Körner-Marton’s sum modulo two problem
    Milad Sefidgaran, Amin Gohari, and M. R. Aref
    In Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT), 2015
  20. On cooperation in multi-terminal computation and rate distortion
    Milad Sefidgaran and Aslan Tchamkerten
    2015
  21. Computing a function of correlated sources
    Milad Sefidgaran
    PhD thesis, Télécom Paris, France, 2013
  22. Distributed function computation over a tree network
    Milad Sefidgaran and Aslan Tchamkerten
    In IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2013
  23. On function computation over a cascade network
    Milad Sefidgaran and Aslan Tchamkerten
    In IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2012
  24. On cooperation in multi-terminal computation and rate distortion
    Milad Sefidgaran and Aslan Tchamkerten
    In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2012
  25. Computing a function of correlated sources: a rate region
    Milad Sefidgaran and Aslan Tchamkerten
    In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2011
  26. Reliable source transmission over relay networks with side information
    Milad Sefidgaran, B. Akhbari, Y. Mohsenzadeh, and M. R. Aref
    In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2009