lm✳LOTFI ABDELKRIM MECHARBATPHD · MACHINE LEARNING
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My work on foundation models, compression, efficient deep learning, adaptation, and meta-learning, as well as AutoML and neural architecture search. Papers are listed newest first.

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Under reviewICLR 2027 · under review

Channel-Remix

Efficient Task-Specific Knowledge Transfer via Pretrained Channel Remixing

Build compact task-specific models by selecting and sparsely recombining pretrained channels instead of relearning new weight directions.

MBZUAI

Under reviewAAAI 2027 · under review

CarveVFM

Carving Specialists Out of Generalists: Automatic Task-Specific Compression of Vision Foundation Models

Jointly search task-specific capacity allocation, removal operators, and recoverability to extract a compact dense model.

MBZUAI

Peer-reviewedMICCAI 2026

MetaVFM

Meta-Learned Efficient Adaptation of Vision Foundation Models for Medical Imaging

Use meta-learning to select and initialize adapters for a new medical imaging task.

MBZUAI

Peer-reviewedMICCAI 2025

MedNNS

Supernet-based Medical Task-Adaptive Neural Network Search

Embed medical datasets and supernet subnetworks in a shared space, so a new task can retrieve a matching architecture and initialization.

MBZUAI · BioMEDIA Lab

Peer-reviewedSACI 2025

MARVIN

Monitoring Anomalies via Railway Video Insight and Neural Networks

Railway anomaly detection combining self-supervised representations with synthetic defect rendering and deployment on edge hardware.

LAMIH · ALSTOM

Peer-reviewedIJCNN 2024

DFuseNAS

A Novel Approach to Neural Architecture Search Based on Diffusion Processes

Use diffusion processes to guide continuous neural architecture search and discover efficient model architectures.

LAMIH · IBM Research

Peer-reviewedESWEEK 2022

HyT-NAS

Hybrid Transformers Neural Architecture Search for Edge Devices

Search hybrid CNN–Transformer architectures under device constraints, connecting model design with low-power edge deployment.

LAMIH · ESI Algiers

ThesisM.Sc. thesis · ESI Algiers

Master’s thesis

Neural Architecture Search of Efficient Vision Transformers for Object Recognition on Tiny Edge Devices

Study neural architecture search for efficient Vision Transformers and object recognition on resource-constrained edge devices.

LAMIH · ESI Algiers

Under reviewUnder review

MoENAS

Mixture-of-Experts NAS for Accurate, Fair, and Robust Edge DNNs

Combine hardware-aware architecture search and sparse mixture-of-experts routing, considering accuracy, fairness, and robustness for edge deployment.

NYUAD · CQTS

Preprint / projectPreprint / research project

CV-SPINNS

Complex-Valued Spin Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Quantum Simulation

Use complex-valued physics-informed neural networks for quantum spin simulation, embedding physical constraints in the network architecture.

NYUAD · CQTS

Ongoing researchOngoing research

MaskVFM

Prompt-Conditioned Structured Masking for Vision Encoders

Ongoing work on a hypernetwork that generates attention and FFN masks for SAM-style vision encoders from prompts and budget constraints.

MBZUAI

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