Babak Taati
Babak Taati
@babaktaati.bsky.social
Senior Scientist at the Kite Research Institute | Toronto Rehab - University Health Network. Associate Professor, Affiliated Scientist in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (cross appointed at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering)
KITE Research Rounds today (Oct 27) at noon!

Speaker: Dr. Devin Brown, Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan

Title: Post-stroke sleep apnea

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October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you're heading to #ICCV2025, come check out our work:
"LIFT: Latent Implicit Functions for Task- and Data-Agnostic Encoding"
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
TPG outperforms SDXL, PAG, and SEG in unconditional generation, and closely matches CFG in conditional tasks across all metrics.
September 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
TPG mirrors CFG by producing guidance vectors nearly orthogonal to ground-truth noise and maintaining strong guidance throughout denoising. Unlike PAG/SEG, it avoids negative alignment and weak updates, leading to more effective, high-quality generation.
September 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
TPG, like CFG, effectively recovers global structure and coarse details during early denoising steps. This stage is crucial for image quality and prompt alignment, as it establishes the foundation for structure and semantics.
September 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In conditional generation, TPG produces better results and matches prompts more accurately than other attention-based methods like PAG and SEG. It also behaves more like CFG in how its guidance works and how often it applies.
September 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Our paper Token Perturbation Guidance (TPG) for Diffusion Models is accepted @neuripsconf.bsky.social 🥳

TPG is a simple & effective method based on token shuffling. It extends the benefits of CFG to broader settings, including unconditional generation.
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.10036
#NeurIPS2025
September 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Developed with Dr. Nimish Mittal, Dr. Amol Deshpande & Andrea Sabo at Kite Research Institute | Toronto Rehab - UHN.
September 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Dr. Azadeh Yadollahi will be our next KITE Research Rounds Speaker

Title: Development of physiology-driven machine learning algorithms to assess cardio-respiratory function and diagnose sleep apnea

Date: Jan 27, 2025

Location: TRI 2nd floor auditorium

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January 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dr. Diego Guarin will be our KITE Research Rounds speaker on Nov 25.

Title: Unmasking Early Motor Deficits in Parkinson's Disease: Leveraging Machine Learning and Video-Based Analysis for Improved Detection and Disease Tracking

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November 21, 2024 at 3:26 PM