3 papers
cs.LG2026
Federate the Router: Learning Language Model Routers with Sparse and Decentralized Evaluations
Baris Askin, Shivam Patel, Anupam Nayak +4
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly accessed as remotely hosted services by edge and enterprise clients that cannot run frontier models locally. Since models vary widely…
cs.LG2025
Reviving Stale Updates: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Asynchronous Federated Learning
Baris Askin, Holger R. Roth, Zhenyu Sun +3
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, yet its scalability is limited by synchronization overhead. Asynch…
cs.LG2025
Ravan: Multi-Head Low-Rank Adaptation for Federated Fine-Tuning
Arian Raje, Baris Askin, Divyansh Jhunjhunwala +1
Large language models (LLMs) have not yet effectively leveraged the vast amounts of edge-device data, and federated learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm to collaboratively fin…