2 papers
cs.LG2026
BaCP: Backbone Contrastive Pruning for Preserving Representations in Extremely Sparse Neural Networks
Mohammad Haroon Khawaja, Muhammad Haseeb, Mohammad Fatim Shoaib +1
Unstructured pruning at extreme sparsity often suffers from representational collapse, causing sharp drops in accuracy. To address this, we study Backbone Contrastive Pruning (BaCP…
cs.LG2025
Mechanistic Evidence for Preserved-but-Misaligned Representations in Non-IID FedAvg
Muhammad Haseeb, Salaar Masood, Muhammad Abdullah Sohail +2
Federated Averaging (FedAvg) often degrades under non-IID client data, but it remains unclear whether this degradation reflects the loss of client-learned representations or a fail…