Hossein Abdi

Hossein Abdi

Publications

  1. Abdi, Hossein, Parsa Ghezelbash, Angelo Cangelosi, and Mingfei Sun. “KPG: Kalman Policy Gradient.” Submitted to Journal of Machine Learning Research (2026).

  2. Abdi, Hossein, Parsa Ghezelbash, Angelo Cangelosi, and Mingfei Sun. “Kalman-Based Policy Optimization Algorithms: Theory, Convergence, and Empirical Comparisons.” submitted to AAAI (2026).

  3. Dash, Satya Prakash, Hossein Abdi, Wei Pan, Samuel Kaski, and Mingfei Sun. “Gradient Regularized Natural Gradients.” Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (2026).

  4. Abdi, Hossein, Satya Prakash Dash, Mingfei Sun, and Wei Pan. “Guided Riemannian Optimization (GuRO): Bridging Model Predictive Control and Decision Transformers.” 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2026).

  5. Nenu, Adrian Mircea, Satya Prakash Dash, Victor M. Yeom-Song, Yingxiao Huo, Beining Zhang, Yihe Zhou, Hossein Abdi, Brendan Bennett, Samuel Kaski, and Mingfei Sun. “A Survey of Expectation-Maximization Methods for Policy Optimization in Deep Reinforcement Learning.” Submitted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2026.

  6. Abdi, Hossein, Mingfei Sun, and Wei Pan. “Bayesian Natural Gradient Fine-Tuning of CLIP Models via Kalman Filtering.” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2025).

  7. Abdi, Hossein, Mingfei Sun, Andi Zhang, Samuel Kaski, and Wei Pan. “LoKO: Low-Rank Kalman Optimizer for Online Fine-Tuning of Large Models.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.11551 (2024).

  8. Abdi, Hossein, Pan Zhao, Naira Hovakimyan, and Reza Ghabcheloo. “Model Predictive Control Barrier Functions: Guaranteed Safety with Reduced Conservatism and Shortened Horizon.” In 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1652-1657. IEEE, 2024.

  9. Abdi, Hossein, and Hossein Nejat Pishkenari. “Self-learning swimming of a three-disk microrobot in a viscous and stochastic environment using reinforcement learning.” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 123 (2023): 106188.

  10. Zhao, Pan, Reza Ghabcheloo, Yikun Cheng, Hossein Abdi, and Naira Hovakimyan. “Convex synthesis of control barrier functions under input constraints.” IEEE Control Systems Letters 7 (2023): 3102-3107.

  11. Abdi, Hossein, Golnaz Raja, and Reza Ghabcheloo. “Safe control using vision-based control barrier function (V-CBF).” In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 782-788. IEEE, 2023.

  12. Toulkani, Naeim Ebrahimi, Hossein Abdi, Olli Koskelainen, and Reza Ghabcheloo. “Reactive safe path following for differential drive mobile robots using control barrier functions.” In 2022 10th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA), pp. 60-65. IEEE, 2022.

  13. Abdi, Hossein, and Hossein Nejat Pishkenari. “Controlled swarm motion of self-propelled microswimmers for energy saving.” Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics 17, no. 1 (2021): 23-33.

  14. Abdi, Hossein, and Hossein Nejat Pishkenari. “Optimal control of a high maneuverable micro-swimmer in low Reynolds number flow to reduce energy consumption.” In 2019 7th International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), pp. 110-113. IEEE, 2019.

  15. Abdi, H., M. J. Shaker Arani, H. Salarieh, and M. M. Kakaei. “Dynamic modeling and Designing a dynamic based control algorithm for legged quadruped robot locomotion.” Modares Mechanical Engineering 19, no. 11 (2019): 2635-2644.