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Baris Askin

5 accepted papers

2026

Internal Planning in Language Models: Characterizing Horizon and Branch Awareness

ICLR 2026poster

The extent to which decoder-only language models (LMs) engage in planning, that is, organizing intermediate computations to support coherent long-range generation, remains an important question, with implications for interpretability, reliability, and principled model design. Planning involves struc…

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2026

Position: Federated Learning is a Lens towards a Democratized Future for the Scaling Law Era

ICML 2026poster

Machine learning (ML) systems have grown significantly in size and popularity over recent years. However, the data and computation power supply chains which have helped fuel this growth have not been built without controversy. In particular, some of the data used to train these models may have been …

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2025

Federated Communication-Efficient Multi-Objective Optimization

AISTATS 2025poster

We study a federated version of multi-objective optimization (MOO), where a single model is trained to optimize multiple objective functions. MOO has been extensively studied in the centralized setting but is less explored in federated or distributed settings. We propose FedCMOO, a novel communicati…

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2025

Ravan: Multi-Head Low-Rank Adaptation for Federated Fine-Tuning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have yet to effectively leverage the vast amounts of edge-device data, and Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm to collaboratively fine-tune LLMs without transferring private edge data to the cloud. To operate within the computational and communication con…

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