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11 papers

cs.LG2026

INAR-VL: Input-Aware Routing for Edge-Cloud Vision-Language Inference

Ahmed Šabanović, Paul Joe Maliakel, Ivona Brandić

Edge deployment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) faces a tradeoff between latency and accuracy: cloud execution provides high-quality predictions but incurs communication delay and…

quant-ph2026

An Online Approach for Entanglement Verification Using Classical Shadows

Marwa Marso, Sabrina Herbst, Jadwiga Wilkens +3

Quantum measurements are slow, while classical processors are fast, yet existing hybrid protocols never exploit this asymmetry. In this work, we propose an alternative formulation…

cs.LG2026

Characterizing LLM Inference Energy-Performance Tradeoffs across Workloads and GPU Scaling

Paul Joe Maliakel, Shashikant Ilager, Ivona Brandic

LLM inference exhibits substantial variability across queries and execution phases, yet inference configurations are often applied uniformly. We present a measurement-driven charac…

quant-ph2025

Limits of quantum generative models with classical sampling hardness

Sabrina Herbst, Ivona Brandić, Adrián Pérez-Salinas

Sampling tasks have been successful in establishing quantum advantages both in theory and experiments. This has fueled the use of quantum computers for generative modeling to creat…

cs.DC2025

Clustered Federated Learning with Hierarchical Knowledge Distillation

Sabtain Ahmad, Meerzhan Kanatbekova, Ivona Brandic +1

Clustered Federated Learning (CFL) has emerged as a powerful approach for addressing data heterogeneity and ensuring privacy in large distributed IoT environments. By clustering cl…

cs.ET2025

Qubit-Efficient QUBO Formulation for Constrained Optimization Problems

Meerzhan Kanatbekova, Vincenzo De Maio, Ivona Brandic

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising alternative for solving combinatorial optimization problems. The standard approach for encoding optimization problems on quantum proces…