papers

Publications (16)

cs.CV2025

Granite Vision: a lightweight, open-source multimodal model for enterprise Intelligence

Granite Vision Team, Leonid Karlinsky, Assaf Arbelle +60

cs.LG2023

Speed Up Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Environment: A Dynamic Tiering Approach

Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi, Syed Zawad, Feng Yan +1

cs.CL2025

GneissWeb: Preparing High Quality Data for LLMs at Scale

Hajar Emami Gohari, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Syed Yousaf Shah +29

cs.CL2026

PEML: Parameter-efficient Multi-Task Learning with Optimized Continuous Prompts

Anjir Ahmed Chowdhury, Syed Zawad, Xiaolong Ma +2

cs.CL2026

SafeMERGE: Preserving Safety Alignment in Fine-Tuned Large Language Models via Selective Layer-Wise Model Merging

Aladin Djuhera, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Farhan Ahmed +2

cs.AI2026

TSR: Trajectory-Search Rollouts for Multi-Turn RL of LLM Agents

Aladin Djuhera, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Farhan Ahmed +3

cs.CY2026

SafeCOMM: A Study on Safety Degradation in Fine-Tuned Telecom Large Language Models

Aladin Djuhera, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Farhan Ahmed +4

cs.AI2026

Know When To Fold 'Em: Token-Efficient LLM Synthetic Data Generation via Multi-Stage In-Flight Rejection

Anjir Ahmed Chowdhury, Syed Zawad, Feng Yan

cs.AI2024

Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

Mayank Mishra, Matt Stallone, Gaoyuan Zhang +43

cs.DC2022

SMLT: A Serverless Framework for Scalable and Adaptive Machine Learning Design and Training

Ahsan Ali, Syed Zawad, Paarijaat Aditya +3

cs.LG2019

EPNAS: Efficient Progressive Neural Architecture Search

Yanqi Zhou, Peng Wang, Sercan Arik +4

cs.CL2025

Fixing It in Post: A Comparative Study of LLM Post-Training Data Quality and Model Performance

Aladin Djuhera, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Syed Zawad +3

cs.CL2026

When Data is the Algorithm: A Systematic Study and Curation of Preference Optimization Datasets

Aladin Djuhera, Farhan Ahmed, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe +3

cs.DC2023

AI Augmented Edge and Fog Computing: Trends and Challenges

Shreshth Tuli, Fatemeh Mirhakimi, Samodha Pallewatta +6

cs.LG2021

Curse or Redemption? How Data Heterogeneity Affects the Robustness of Federated Learning

Syed Zawad, Ahsan Ali, Pin-Yu Chen +5

cs.LG2020

TiFL: A Tier-based Federated Learning System

Zheng Chai, Ahsan Ali, Syed Zawad +7