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14 papers

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.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…

cs.CV2026

SPDMark: Selective Parameter Displacement for Robust Video Watermarking

Samar Fares, Nurbek Tastan, Karthik Nandakumar

The advent of high-quality video generation models has amplified the need for robust watermarking schemes that can be used to reliably detect and track the provenance of generated…

cs.CV2026

MOLM: Mixture of LoRA Markers

Samar Fares, Nurbek Tastan, Noor Hussein +1

Generative models can generate photorealistic images at scale. This raises urgent concerns about the ability to detect synthetically generated images and attribute these images to…