publications

2026

1. 

   Spectral Alignment in Forward-Backward Representations via Temporal Abstraction

   Seyed Mahdi B Azad, Jasper Hoffmann, Iman Nematollahi, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20103, 2026

   Bib PDF

   @article{azad2026spectral,
     title = {Spectral Alignment in Forward-Backward Representations via Temporal Abstraction},
     author = {Azad, Seyed Mahdi B and Hoffmann, Jasper and Nematollahi, Iman and Zhu, Hao and Valada, Abhinav and Boedecker, Joschka},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20103},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. 

   SR-Reward: Taking The Path More Traveled

   Seyed Mahdi B. Azad, Zahra Padar, Gabriel Kalweit, and 1 more author

   Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{azad2025srreward,
     title = {{SR}-Reward: Taking The Path More Traveled},
     author = {Azad, Seyed Mahdi B. and Padar, Zahra and Kalweit, Gabriel and Boedecker, Joschka},
     journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
     issn = {2835-8856},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=bzk1sV1svm},
   }