Alireza Ghaffari

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Feb 2024

Statistical Hardware Design With Multimodel Active Learning

Alireza Ghaffari, Masoud Asgharian, and Yvon Savaria

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 43(2), 562–572, 2024 BibTeX reference

Jun 2023

EuclidNets: An Alternative Operation for Efficient Inference of Deep Learning Models

Xinlin Li, Mariana Parazeres, Adam M. Oberman, Alireza Ghaffari, Masoud Asgharian, and Vahid Partovi Nia

SN Computer Science, 4, Paper no: 507, 2023 BibTeX reference

Proceedings

Apr 2025

OAC: Output-adaptive Calibration for Accurate Post-training Quantization

Ali Edalati, Alireza Ghaffari, Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad, Lu Hou, Boxing Chen, Masoud Asgharian, and Vahid Partovi Nia

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 39(16), 2025 BibTeX reference

Feb 2025

Rethinking Post- Training Quantization: Introducing a Statistical Pre-Calibration Approach

Alireza Ghaffari, Sharareh Younesian, Boxing Chen, Vahid Partovi Nia, and Masoud Asgharian

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2025), Porto, Portugal, 159–169, 2025 BibTeX reference

Feb 2024

Mitigating Outlier Activations in Low-Precision Fine-Tuning of Language Models

Alireza Ghaffari, Justin Yu, Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad, Masoud Asgharian, Boxing Chen, and Vahid Partovi Nia

International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Rome, Italy, 478–484, 2024 BibTeX reference

May 2023

Towards Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models with Integer Forward and Backward Propagation

Mohammadreza Tayaranian Hossein, Alireza Ghaffari, Marzieh S Tahaei, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Masoud Asgharian, and Vahid Partovi Nia

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1912–1921, 2023 BibTeX reference

Feb 2023

On the Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent in Low-precision Number Formats

Matteo Cacciola, Antonio Frangioni, Masoud Asgharian, Alireza Ghaffari, and Vahid Partovi Nia

ICPRAM 2023, 2023 BibTeX reference

Nov 2022

Is Integer Arithmetic Enough for Deep Learning Training?

Alireza Ghaffari, Marzieh S Tahaei, Mohammadreza Tayaranian, Masoud Asgharian, and Vahid Partovi Nia

36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), 2022 BibTeX reference