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Ershad Banijamali

8 accepted papers

2025

QuZO: Quantized Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) are often quantized to lower precision to reduce the memory cost and latency in inference. However, quantization often degrades model performance, thus fine-tuning is required for various downstream tasks. Traditional fine-tuning methods such as stochastic gradient desce

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2024

AdaZeta: Adaptive Zeroth-Order Tensor-Train Adaption for Memory-Efficient Large Language Models Fine-Tuning

EMNLP 2024main

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has achieved remarkable performance across various natural language processing tasks, yet it demands more and more memory as model sizes keep growing. To address this issue, the recently proposed Memory-efficient Zeroth-order (MeZO) methods attempt to fine-tu…

2023

Pyramid Dynamic Inference: Encouraging Faster Inference Via Early Exit Boosting

ICASSP 2023accepted

Transformer-based models demonstrate state of the art results on several natural language understanding tasks. However, their deployment comes at the cost of increased footprint and inference latency, limiting their adoption to real-time applications. Early exit strategies are designed to speed-up t…

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2021

Prediction by Anticipation: An Action-Conditional Prediction Method Based on Interaction Learning

ICCV 2021poster

In autonomous driving (AD), accurately predicting changes in the environment can effectively improve safety and comfort. Due to complex interactions among traffic participants, however, it is very hard to achieve accurate prediction for a long horizon. To address this challenge, we propose predictio…

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2021

Self-Supervised Simultaneous Multi-Step Prediction of Road Dynamics and Cost Map

CVPR 2021poster

In this paper we propose a system consisting of a modular network and a trajectory planner. The network simultaneously predicts Occupancy Grid Maps (OGMs) and estimates space-time cost maps (CMs) corresponding to the areas around the vehicle. The trajectory planner computes the cost of a set of pred…

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2019

Optimizing over a Restricted Policy Class in MDPs

AISTATS 2019poster

We address the problem of finding an optimal policy in a Markov decision process (MDP) under a restricted policy class defined by the convex hull of a set of base policies. This problem is of great interest in applications in which a number of reasonably good (or safe) policies are already known and…

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2018

Robust Locally-Linear Controllable Embedding

AISTATS 2018poster

Embed-to-control (E2C) is a model for solving high-dimensional optimal control problems by combining variational auto-encoders with locally-optimal controllers. However, the E2C model suffers from two major drawbacks: 1) its objective function does not correspond to the likelihood of the data seque…

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