Yousef Yassin

Student. Drawn to combining theoretical insight with practical, scalable solutions. I like reinforcement learning, and am interested in random processes 🎲 (diffusion), discrete algorithms, and optimization ⚖️.

Sidequests 📜⚔️ in self-supervised learning and efficient/adaptive computation.

Please reach out if you think we can team up! (first.last@carleton.ca).

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Sreehari Rammohan*, Yousef Yassin*, Anthony Fuller, Junfeng Wen, Carl Vondrick, and Evan Shelhamer. LookThere! Sparse Vision by Reinforced Selection. 2026.

Yousef Yassin and Junfeng Wen. RiskZero: Plan More to Risk Less with a Learned Model. 🕊️ 2026.

Anthony Fuller, Yousef Yassin, Daniel G. Kyrollos, James R. Green†, and Evan Shelhamer†. Thicker and Quicker: A Jumbo Token for Fast Plain Vision Transformers. 🐧 2026. pdf

Elfarouk Harb, Yousef Yassin, and Chandra Chekuri. Corporate Needs You to Find the Difference: Revisiting Submodular and Supermodular Ratio Optimization Problems. 🐦 2025. pdf

Anthony Fuller*, Yousef Yassin*, Junfeng Wen, Tarek Ibrahim, Daniel G. Kyrollos, James R. Green†, and Evan Shelhamer†. LookWhere? Efficient Visual Recognition by Learning Where to Look and What to See from Self-Supervision. 🐦 2025. pdf

Anthony Fuller, Daniel G. Kyrollos, Yousef Yassin, and James R. Green. LookHere: Vision Transformers with Directed Attention Generalize and Extrapolate. 🐦 2024. pdf

Yousef Yassin, Anthony Fuller, Keyvan Ranjbar, Kenny Bala, Leonid Nichman, and James R. Green. Soft Contrastive Representation Learning for Cloud-Particle Images. 🪶 2024.