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Research Publications & preprints.

NeurIPS · EMNLP · EACL · AIJ · MLJ · TMLR · IEEE T-Cyb · 268 citations on Google Scholar, October 2026.

Selected

  1. Covenant-72B: Pre-Training a 72B LLM with Trustless Peers Over-the-Internet

    Joel Lidin, Amir Sarfi, Erfan Miahi, Quentin Anthony, Shivam Chauhan, Evangelos Pappas, Benjamin Thérien, Eugene Belilovsky, Samuel Dare

    The largest permissionless, globally distributed pre-training run at its release (72B parameters, ~1.1T tokens).

    arXiv
    preprint

  2. Understanding and Exploiting Weight Update Sparsity for Communication-Efficient Distributed RL

    Erfan Miahi, Eugene Belilovsky

    About 99% of per-step weight updates are invisible after the BF16 cast. PULSE uses that to cut weight-sync traffic by over 100× with bit-identical weights. Cited by Fireworks.

    NeurIPS
    accepted

  3. Investigating the Properties of Neural Network Representations in Reinforcement Learning

    Han Wang, Erfan Miahi, Martha White, Marlos C. Machado, Zaheer Abbas, Raksha Kumaraswamy

    Joint work with Google DeepMind, published in the Artificial Intelligence Journal.

    AIJ
    journal

All publications

  1. How Reliable are Confidence Estimators for Large Reasoning Models?

    Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Simerjot Kaur, Ivan Brugere, Charese H. Smiley, Kundan Thind, Mohammad M. Ghassemi

    European Chapter of the ACL

    EACL
    main

  2. Grounded or Guessing? LVLM Confidence Estimation via Blind-Image Contrastive Ranking

    Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Simerjot Kaur, Charese H. Smiley, Ivan Brugere, Kundan Thind, Mohammad M. Ghassemi

    Confidence estimation for vision-language models

    arXiv
    preprint

  3. Calibrating LLM Confidence by Probing Perturbed Representation Stability

    Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Mehrsa Mardikoraem, Simerjot Kaur, Ivan Brugere, Charese H. Smiley, Kundan Thind, Mohammad M. Ghassemi

    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

    EMNLP
    main

  4. GVFs in the Real World: Making Predictions Online for Water Treatment

    Muhammad K. Janjua, Haseeb Shah, Martha White, Erfan Miahi, Marlos C. Machado, Adam White

    Machine Learning Journal

    MLJ
    journal

  5. ResMax: An Alternative Soft-Greedy Operator for Reinforcement Learning

    Erfan Miahi, Revan MacQueen, Alex Ayoub, Abbas Masoumzadeh, Martha White

    Transactions on Machine Learning Research

    TMLR
    journal

  6. Genetic Neural Architecture Search for Automatic Assessment of Human Sperm Images

    Erfan Miahi, S.A. Mirroshandel, A. Nasr

    First author · NAS for medical imaging

    Expert Syst. Appl.
    journal

  7. Scalable Transfer Evolutionary Optimization: Coping with Big Task Instances

    Mojtaba Shakeri, Erfan Miahi, Abhishek Gupta, Yew-Soon Ong

    NTU × A*STAR collaboration

    IEEE T-Cyb
    journal

  8. Effect of Deep Transfer and Multi-task Learning on Sperm Abnormality Detection

    A. Abbasi, Erfan Miahi, S.A. Mirroshandel

    Most-cited paper · Computers in Biology and Medicine

    Comput. Biol. Med.
    journal