Research

Meta-Reward: Reward Modeling as Harness Optimization

Essam Sleiman

Canvas, 2026

Meta-Agent: Continual Learning for Agents

Essam Sleiman

Canvas, 2026 · code

Goldfish: Vision-Language Understanding of Arbitrarily Long Videos

Kirolos Ataallah, Xiaoqian Shen, Eslam Abdelrahman, Essam Sleiman, Mingchen Zhuge, Jian Ding, Deyao Zhu, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Mohamed Elhoseiny

ECCV, 2024

MiniGPT4-Video: Advancing Multimodal LLMs for Video Understanding with Interleaved Visual-Textual Tokens

Kirolos Ataallah, Xiaoqian Shen, Eslam Abdelrahman, Essam Sleiman, Deyao Zhu, Jian Ding, Mohamed Elhoseiny

CVPR Workshop, 2024

SlowFormer: Universal Adversarial Patch for Attack on Compute and Energy Efficiency of Inference Efficient Vision Transformers

Essam Sleiman*, K L Navaneet*, Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani*, Hamed Pirsiavash

CVPR, 2024

Do Function Vectors Factor Task and Distribution?

Essam Sleiman, Jacob Andreas

Preprint, 2024

Continual Self-Supervised Learning with Knowledge Distillation

Essam Sleiman, Xiangbo Li, Saad Ali

Preprint, 2023

Mitigating Negative Transfer in Multi-Task Learning with Exponential Moving Average Loss Weighting Strategies (Student Abstract)

Anish Lakkapragada, Essam Sleiman, Saimourya Surabhi, Dennis P. Wall

AAAI, 2023

Deep Learning-Based Autism Spectrum Disorder Detection Using Emotion Features From Video Recordings

Essam Sleiman, Onur Cezmi Mutlu, Saimourya Surabhi, Adnan Husic, Aaron Kline, Peter Washington, Dennis P. Wall

JMIR Biomedical Engineering, 2022

TikTok for Good: Creating a Diverse Emotion Expression Database

Saimourya Surabhi, Bhavik Shah, Peter Washington, Onur Cezmi Mutlu, Emilie Leblanc, Prathamesh Mohite, Arman Husic, Aaron Kline, Kaitlyn Dunlap, Maya McNealis, Bennett Liu, Nick Deveaux, Essam Sleiman, Dennis P. Wall

CVPR Workshops, 2022