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Journal Articles (Published/Accepted) 

[1] Sepideh Samadi and Farzad Yousefian, Improved Guarantees for Optimal Nash Equilibrium Seeking and Bilevel Variational Inequalities, SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol. 35, no. 1, 2025, pp. 369–399, doi: 10.1137/23M1589402.

[2] Harshal D. Kaushik, Sepideh Samadi, and Farzad Yousefian, An Incremental Gradient Method for Optimization Problems with Variational Inequality Constraints, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 68, no. 12, 2023, pp. 7879–7886, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3251851. 

Under Revision

[3] Sepideh Samadi, Daniel Burbano, and Farzad Yousefian, On Iteratively Regularized First-Order Methods for Simple Bilevel Optimization, Submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization (under revision), preprint: arXiv:2504.08079.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

[1] Sepideh Samadi, Daniel Burbano, and Farzad Yousefian, Achieving Optimal Complexity Guarantees for a Class of Bilevel Convex Optimization Problems, 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 2206–2211, 2024. IEEE, doi:10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644364.

Under Review

[1] Sepideh Samadi, Yang Liu, Kibaek Kim, and Farzad Yousefian, Bilevel Federated Learning for Personal ization and Hyperparameter Optimization using Zeroth-Order SCAFFOLD, submitted, 2026.