3 papers
cs.LG2025
Aequa: Fair Model Rewards in Collaborative Learning via Slimmable Networks
Nurbek Tastan, Samuel Horvath, Karthik Nandakumar
Collaborative learning enables multiple participants to learn a single global model by exchanging focused updates instead of sharing data. One of the core challenges in collaborati…
cs.LG2025
A Framework for Double-Blind Federated Adaptation of Foundation Models
Nurbek Tastan, Karthik Nandakumar
Foundation models (FMs) excel in zero-shot tasks but benefit from task-specific adaptation. However, privacy concerns prevent data sharing among multiple data owners, and proprieta…
cs.LG2025
CYCle: Choosing Your Collaborators Wisely to Enhance Collaborative Fairness in Decentralized Learning
Nurbek Tastan, Samuel Horvath, Karthik Nandakumar
Collaborative learning (CL) enables multiple participants to jointly train machine learning (ML) models on decentralized data sources without raw data sharing. While the primary go…