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6 papers

cs.LG2026

DP-LAC: Lightweight Adaptive Clipping for Differentially Private Federated Fine-tuning of Language Models

Haaris Mehmood, Jie Xu, Karthikeyan Saravanan +2

Federated learning (FL) enables the collaborative training of large-scale language models (LLMs) across edge devices while keeping user data on-device. However, FL still exposes se…

cs.LG2025

Guided Model Merging for Hybrid Data Learning: Leveraging Centralized Data to Refine Decentralized Models

Junyi Zhu, Ruicong Yao, Taha Ceritli +6

Current network training paradigms primarily focus on either centralized or decentralized data regimes. However, in practice, data availability often exhibits a hybrid nature, wher…

cs.CV2025

Mem-MLP: Real-Time 3D Human Motion Generation from Sparse Inputs

Sinan Mutlu, Georgios F. Angelis, Savas Ozkan +3

Realistic and smooth full-body tracking is crucial for immersive AR/VR applications. Existing systems primarily track head and hands via Head Mounted Devices (HMDs) and controllers…

cs.CL2025

Multi-Task Pre-Finetuning of Lightweight Transformer Encoders for Text Classification and NER

Junyi Zhu, Savas Ozkan, Andrea Maracani +3

Deploying natural language processing (NLP) models on mobile platforms requires models that can adapt across diverse applications while remaining efficient in memory and computatio…

cs.CV2025

Efficient 3D Full-Body Motion Generation from Sparse Tracking Inputs with Temporal Windows

Georgios Fotios Angelis, Savas Ozkan, Sinan Mutlu +3

To have a seamless user experience on immersive AR/VR applications, the importance of efficient and effective Neural Network (NN) models is undeniable, since missing body parts tha…

cs.CV2025

Accurate Scene Text Recognition with Efficient Model Scaling and Cloze Self-Distillation

Andrea Maracani, Savas Ozkan, Sijun Cho +6

Scaling architectures have been proven effective for improving Scene Text Recognition (STR), but the individual contribution of vision encoder and text decoder scaling remain under…