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20232026
most citedRoSA: Accurate Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Robust Adaptation

7 citations · 10 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Active Learning with Low-Rank Structure for Data Selection

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Sasidhar Kunapuli, Vahab Mirrokni +3

In the data selection problem, the objective is to choose a small, representative subset of data that can be used to efficiently train a machine learning model. Sener and Savarese…

cs.CL2026

GSQ: Highly-Accurate Low-Precision Scalar Quantization for LLMs via Gumbel-Softmax Sampling

Alireza Dadgarnia, Soroush Tabesh, Mahdi Nikdan +4

Quantization has become a standard tool for efficient LLM deployment, especially for local inference, where models are now routinely served at 2-3 bits per parameter. The state of…

cs.CL2026

ECO: Quantized Training without Full-Precision Master Weights

Mahdi Nikdan, Amir Zandieh, Dan Alistarh +1

Quantization has significantly improved the compute and memory efficiency of Large Language Model (LLM) training. However, existing approaches still rely on accumulating their upda…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Data Selection at Scale via Influence Distillation

Mahdi Nikdan, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Dan Alistarh +1

Effective data selection is critical for efficient training of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper introduces Influence Distillation, a novel, mathematically-justified…

cs.LG2025

Quartet: Native FP4 Training Can Be Optimal for Large Language Models

Roberto L. Castro, Andrei Panferov, Soroush Tabesh +5

Training large language models (LLMs) models directly in low-precision offers a way to address computational costs by improving both throughput and energy efficiency. For those pur…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

QuEST: Stable Training of LLMs with 1-Bit Weights and Activations

Andrei Panferov, Jiale Chen, Soroush Tabesh +3

One approach to reducing the massive costs of large language models (LLMs) is the use of quantized or sparse representations for training or deployment. While post-training compres…

cs.LG2025

HALO: Hadamard-Assisted Lower-Precision Optimization for LLMs

Saleh Ashkboos, Mahdi Nikdan, Soroush Tabesh +3

Quantized training of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains an open challenge, as maintaining accuracy while performing all matrix multiplications in low precision has proven diffic…

cs.CL2024

Panza: Design and Analysis of a Fully-Local Personalized Text Writing Assistant

Armand Nicolicioiu, Eugenia Iofinova, Andrej Jovanovic +6

The availability of powerful open-source large language models (LLMs) opens exciting use-cases, such as using personal data to fine-tune these models to imitate a user's unique wri…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

RoSA: Accurate Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Robust Adaptation

Mahdi Nikdan, Soroush Tabesh, Elvir Crnčević +1

We investigate parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods that can provide good accuracy under limited computational and memory budgets in the context of large language models…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

SparseProp: Efficient Sparse Backpropagation for Faster Training of Neural Networks

Mahdi Nikdan, Tommaso Pegolotti, Eugenia Iofinova +2

We provide a new efficient version of the backpropagation algorithm, specialized to the case where the weights of the neural network being trained are sparse. Our algorithm is gene…