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14 papers

cs.LG2026

The Red Queen Gödel Machine: Co-Evolving Agents and Their Evaluators

Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanović, William F. Shen +10

Self-improving agents are state-of-the-art (SOTA) on agentic coding benchmarks and have recently been extended to general domains. However, their search methods generally assume a…

cs.LG2026

MoSE: Mixture of Slimmable Experts for Efficient and Adaptive Language Models

Nurbek Tastan, Stefanos Laskaridis, Karthik Nandakumar +1

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models scale large language models efficiently by sparsely activating experts, but once an expert is selected, it is executed fully. Hence, the trade-off b…

cs.DC2026

PreLort: Prefix-Nested LoRA for Federated Fine-Tuning under Rank Heterogeneity

Muhammad Waseem, Nurbek Tastan, Andrej Jovanovic +4

Federated fine-tuning of large language models using parameter-efficient methods such as LoRA enables privacy-preserving adaptation of foundation models. Heterogeneous hardware res…

cs.LG2026

Data-Free Client Contribution Estimation via Logit Maximization for Federated Learning

Asim Ukaye, Nurbek Tastan, Mubarak Abdu-Aguye +1

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning of computer vision models, where privacy and regulatory constraints prevent centralizing data across devices or organizations…

cs.CL2026

Response-Conditioned Parallel-to-Sequential Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems

Nurbek Tastan, Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani +4

Multi-agent systems can solve complex tasks through collaboration between multiple Large Language Model agents. Existing collaboration frameworks typically operate in either a para…

cs.LG2026

Data-Free Contribution Estimation in Federated Learning using Gradient von Neumann Entropy

Asim Ukaye, Mubarak Abdu-Aguye, Nurbek Tastan +1

Client contribution estimation in Federated Learning is necessary for identifying clients' importance and for providing fair rewards. Current methods often rely on server-side vali…