2 papers
cs.CL2026
ORBIT: Training-Free Multi-Attribute Behavioral Steering via Orthogonal Subspace Rotation
Narges Ghasemi, Amir Ziashahabi, Salman Avestimehr +1
Language models are widely used in assistant settings, where controlling behavioral attributes is often essential. Activation steering modifies hidden-state representations at infe…
cs.DC2026
Understanding Communication Backends in Cross-Silo Federated Learning
Amir Ziashahabi, Chaoyang He, Salman Avestimehr
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a practical means for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning. FL's versatile design makes it suitable for various training settings,…