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Moslem Yazdanpanah

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Publications

TRUST: Test-Time Refinement using Uncertainty-Guided SSM Traverses
Sahar Dastani
Ali Bahri
Gustavo Adolf Vargas Hakim
Moslem Yazdanpanah
Mehrdad Noori
David Osowiechi
Samuel Barbeau
Ismail Ben Ayed
Hervé Lombaert
Christian Desrosiers
State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as efficient alternatives to Vision Transformers (ViTs), with VMamba standing out as a pioneering arc… (see more)hitecture designed for vision tasks. However, their generalization performance degrades significantly under distribution shifts. To address this limitation, we propose TRUST (Test-Time Refinement using Uncertainty-Guided SSM Traverses), a novel test-time adaptation (TTA) method that leverages diverse traversal permutations to generate multiple causal perspectives of the input image. Model predictions serve as pseudo-labels to guide updates of the Mamba-specific parameters, and the adapted weights are averaged to integrate the learned information across traversal scans. Altogether, TRUST is the first approach that explicitly leverages the unique architectural properties of SSMs for adaptation. Experiments on seven benchmarks show that TRUST consistently improves robustness and outperforms existing TTA methods.
2025-09-17
NeurIPS.cc/2025/Conference (poster)
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openreview.net
Spectral State Space Model for Rotation-Invariant Visual Representation Learning
Sahar Dastani
Ali Bahri
Moslem Yazdanpanah
Mehrdad Noori
David Osowiechi
Gustavo Adolfo Vargas Hakim
Farzad Beizaee
Milad Cheraghalikhani
Arnab Kumar Mondal
Hervé Lombaert
Christian Desrosiers
State Space Models (SSMs) have recently emerged as an alternative to Vision Transformers (ViTs) due to their unique ability of modeling glob… (see more)al relationships with linear complexity. SSMs are specifically designed to capture spatially proximate relationships of image patches. However, they fail to identify relationships between conceptually related yet not adjacent patches. This limitation arises from the non-causal nature of image data, which lacks inherent directional relationships. Additionally, current vision-based SSMs are highly sensitive to transformations such as rotation. Their predefined scanning directions depend on the original image orientation, which can cause the model to produce inconsistent patch-processing sequences after rotation. To address these limitations, we introduce Spectral VMamba, a novel approach that effectively captures the global structure within an image by leveraging spectral information derived from the graph Laplacian of image patches. Through spectral decomposition, our approach encodes patch relationships independently of image orientation, achieving rotation invariance with the aid of our Rotational Feature Normalizer (RFN) module. Our experiments on classification tasks show that Spectral VMamba outperforms the leading SSM models in vision, such as VMamba, while maintaining invariance to rotations and a providing a similar runtime efficiency.
2025-06-09
2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (published)
doi.org
arxiv.org
Revisiting Learnable Affines for Batch Norm in Few-Shot Transfer Learning
Moslem Yazdanpanah
Aamer Abdul Rahman
Muawiz Sajjad Chaudhary
Christian Desrosiers
Mohammad Havaei
Eugene Belilovsky
S Ebrahimi Kahou
Batch normalization is a staple of computer vision models, including those employed in few-shot learning. Batch nor-malization layers in con… (see more)volutional neural networks are composed of a normalization step, followed by a shift and scale of these normalized features applied via the per-channel trainable affine parameters
2022-06-17
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (published)
doi.org