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Journal Articles

Second-Order Policy Gradient Method for the LQR

Published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2025

An exact second-order update for deterministic policy-gradient methods on the Linear Quadratic Regulator.

Recommended citation: Amirreza Velae, Arash Bahari Kordabad, and Sadegh Soudjani. "Second-Order Policy Gradient Method for the LQR." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
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Controlling Gender Bias in Retrieval

Published in ECIR 2026, 2025

Converting Backpack language models into encoders to mitigate gender bias in ranking, without retraining.

Recommended citation: Amirabbas Afzali*, Amirreza Velae*, Iman Ahmadi, and Mohammad Aliannejadi. "Controlling Gender Bias in Retrieval." In Proceedings of ECIR 2026. (*Equal contribution)
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