PhD Candidate
Mostafa ElAraby
Mila — Quebec AI Institute, Université de Montréal
I research the foundations of robustness and reliable AI. My current work focuses on out-of-distribution (OOD) detection and uncertainty estimation, ensuring machine learning models remain safe when deployed in unpredictable real-world environments.
Latest Updates
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✨ Thrilled to announce our paper “GROOD” on enhancing OOD detection has been accepted to TMLR 2025! 📄 (Read the GROOD blog post)
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🤖 Is Test-Time Adaptation failing on hard OOD tasks? Our AAAI 2025 paper introduces GALA to fix it! 💡 (Read “A Layer Selection Approach to Test Time Adaptation”)
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🧠 How do you find the most critical neurons in a neural network? Our paper “OAMIP”, accepted to CPAIOR 2023, has an answer! 🧩
Recent Publications
GROOD: GRadient-aware Out-Of-Distribution detection in interpolated manifolds
TMLR · 2025
@article{elaraby2023grood, title = {GROOD: GRadient-aware Out-Of-Distribution detection in interpolated manifolds}, author = {ElAraby, Mostafa and Sahoo, Sabyasachi and Pequignot, Yann and Novello, Paul and Paull, Liam}, journal = {TMLR}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=2V7itvvMVJ}, arxiv = {2312.14427}, code = {https://github.com/mostafaelaraby/Gradient-Aware-OOD-Detection}, blog = {/publications/2025/09/12/grood-gradient-aware-out-of-distribution-detection/} }BACS: Background Aware Continual Semantic Segmentation
CRV · 2024
@inproceedings{elaraby2024bacs, title = {BACS: Background Aware Continual Semantic Segmentation}, author = {ElAraby, Mostafa and Harakeh, Ali and Paull, Liam}, booktitle = {CRV}, year = {2024}, arxiv = {2404.13148}, code = {https://github.com/mostafaelaraby/bacs-continual-semantic-segmentation}, blog = {/publications/2024/04/30/bacs-continual-semantic-segmentation/} }Identifying efficient sub-networks using mixed integer programming
OPT Workshop @ NeurIPS · 2020
@inproceedings{elaraby2020identifying, title = {{I}dentifying efficient sub-networks using mixed integer programming}, author = {ElAraby, Mostafa and Wolf, Guy and Carvalho, Margarida}, booktitle = {OPT Workshop @ NeurIPS}, volume = {3}, year = {2020}, arxiv = {2002.07259}, code = {https://github.com/chair-dsgt/mip-for-ann}, blog = {/publications/2020/02/18/identifying-critical-neurons-in-ann-architectures-using-mixed-integer-programming/} }