publications

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2025

1. 

   arXiv

   Bridge the Gaps between Machine Unlearning and AI Regulation

   Bill Marino , Meghdad Kurmanji , and Nicholas D. Lane

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12430 · 2025

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   @article{marino2025bridge,
     title = {Bridge the Gaps between Machine Unlearning and AI Regulation},
     author = {Marino, Bill and Kurmanji, Meghdad and Lane, Nicholas D.},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12430},
     year = {2025},
     abbr = {arXiv},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12430}
   }
   

2. 

   arXiv

   LUNAR: LLM Unlearning via Neural Activation Redirection

   William F. Shen , Xinchi Qiu , Meghdad Kurmanji , Alex Iacob , Lorenzo Sani , Yikai Chen , Nicola Cancedda , and Nicholas D. Lane

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.07218 · 2025

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   @article{shen2025lunar,
     title = {LUNAR: LLM Unlearning via Neural Activation Redirection},
     author = {Shen, William F. and Qiu, Xinchi and Kurmanji, Meghdad and Iacob, Alex and Sani, Lorenzo and Chen, Yikai and Cancedda, Nicola and Lane, Nicholas D.},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.07218},
     year = {2025},
     abbr = {arXiv},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07218}
   }
   

2024

1. 

   SIGMOD

   Machine Unlearning in Learned Databases

   Meghdad Kurmanji , Efi Triantafillou , and Peter Triantafillou

   Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD) · 2024

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   @inproceedings{kurmanji2024unlearningdb,
     title = {Machine Unlearning in Learned Databases},
     author = {Kurmanji, Meghdad and Triantafillou, Efi and Triantafillou, Peter},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD)},
     year = {2024},
     abbr = {SIGMOD},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3639304}
   }
   

2. 

   NeurIPS

   What Makes Unlearning Hard and What to Do About It

   Kai Zhao , Meghdad Kurmanji , George Barbulescu , Efi Triantafillou , and Peter Triantafillou

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) · 2024

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   @inproceedings{zhao2024rum,
     title = {What Makes Unlearning Hard and What to Do About It},
     author = {Zhao, Kai and Kurmanji, Meghdad and Barbulescu, George and Triantafillou, Efi and Triantafillou, Peter},
     booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
     year = {2024},
     abbr = {NeurIPS},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.01257}
   }
   

3. 

   arXiv

   DEPT: Decoupled Embeddings for Pre-training Language Models

   Alex Iacob , Lorenzo Sani , Meghdad Kurmanji , William F. Shen , Xinchi Qiu , Dongqi Cai , Yan Gao , and Nicholas D. Lane

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.05021 · 2024

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   @article{iacob2024dept,
     title = {DEPT: Decoupled Embeddings for Pre-training Language Models},
     author = {Iacob, Alex and Sani, Lorenzo and Kurmanji, Meghdad and Shen, William F. and Qiu, Xinchi and Cai, Dongqi and Gao, Yan and Lane, Nicholas D.},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.05021},
     year = {2024},
     abbr = {arXiv},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05021}
   }
   

2023

1. 

   NeurIPS

   Towards Unbounded Machine Unlearning

   Meghdad Kurmanji , Peter Triantafillou , Jamie Hayes , and Efi Triantafillou

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) · 2023

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   @inproceedings{kurmanji2023unbounded,
     title = {Towards Unbounded Machine Unlearning},
     author = {Kurmanji, Meghdad and Triantafillou, Peter and Hayes, Jamie and Triantafillou, Efi},
     booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
     year = {2023},
     abbr = {NeurIPS},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.09880.pdf}
   }
   

2. 

   SIGMOD

   Detect, Distill and Update: Learned DB Systems Facing Out of Distribution Data

   Meghdad Kurmanji and Peter Triantafillou

   Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD) · 2023

   Paper BibTeX
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   @inproceedings{kurmanji2023ddup,
     title = {Detect, Distill and Update: Learned DB Systems Facing Out of Distribution Data},
     author = {Kurmanji, Meghdad and Triantafillou, Peter},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD)},
     year = {2023},
     abbr = {SIGMOD},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.05508.pdf}
   }
   

2021

1. 

   SIGMOD

   PGMJoins: Random Join Sampling with Graphical Models

   Ali Mohammad Shanghooshabad , Meghdad Kurmanji , Qi Ma , Mher Shekelyan , Milad Almasi , and Peter Triantafillou

   Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD) · 2021

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   @inproceedings{shanghooshabad2021pgmjoins,
     title = {PGMJoins: Random Join Sampling with Graphical Models},
     author = {Shanghooshabad, Ali Mohammad and Kurmanji, Meghdad and Ma, Qi and Shekelyan, Mher and Almasi, Milad and Triantafillou, Peter},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD)},
     year = {2021},
     abbr = {SIGMOD},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457302}
   }
   

2. 

   CIDR

   Learned Approximate Query Processing: Make It Light, Accurate and Fast

   Qi Ma , Ali Mohammad Shanghooshabad , Milad Almasi , Meghdad Kurmanji , and Peter Triantafillou

   Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) · 2021

   Paper BibTeX
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   @inproceedings{ma2021dbest,
     title = {Learned Approximate Query Processing: Make It Light, Accurate and Fast},
     author = {Ma, Qi and Shanghooshabad, Ali Mohammad and Almasi, Milad and Kurmanji, Meghdad and Triantafillou, Peter},
     booktitle = {Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR)},
     year = {2021},
     abbr = {CIDR},
     url = {https://15799.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2022/papers/21-systems3/cidr2021_paper15.pdf}
   }
   

2019

1. 

   ICEE

   A Comparison of 2D and 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Hand Gesture Recognition from RGB-D Data

   Meghdad Kurmanji and Faramarz Ghaderi

   Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) · 2019

   Paper BibTeX
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   @inproceedings{kurmanji2019gesture,
     title = {A Comparison of 2D and 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Hand Gesture Recognition from RGB-D Data},
     author = {Kurmanji, Meghdad and Ghaderi, Faramarz},
     booktitle = {Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE)},
     year = {2019},
     abbr = {ICEE},
     url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8786671}
   }