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Marco Federici

6 accepted papers

2026

Dissecting Quantization Error: A Concentration-Alignment Perspective

ICML 2026poster

Quantization can drastically increase the efficiency of large language and vision models, but typically incurs an accuracy drop. Recently, function-preserving transforms (e.g. rotations, Hadamard transform, channel-wise scaling) have been successfully applied to reduce post-training quantization err…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

STaMP: Sequence Transformation and Mixed Precision for Low-Precision Activation Quantization

ICLR 2026poster

Quantization is the key method for reducing inference latency, power and memory footprint of generative AI models. However, accuracy often degrades sharply when activations are at low bit widths. Recent work suggests that invertible linear transformations (e.g. rotations) can aid quantization, by r…

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2024

Latent Representation and Simulation of Markov Processes via Time-Lagged Information Bottleneck

ICLR 2024poster

Markov processes are widely used mathematical models for describing dynamic systems in various fields. However, accurately simulating large-scale systems at long time scales is computationally expensive due to the short time steps required for accurate integration. In this paper, we introduce an inf…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

Bridge the Inference Gaps of Neural Processes via Expectation Maximization

ICLR 2023poster

The neural process (NP) is a family of computationally efficient models for learning distributions over functions. However, it suffers from under-fitting and shows suboptimal performance in practice. Researchers have primarily focused on incorporating diverse structural inductive biases, e.g. attent…

2021

An Information-theoretic Approach to Distribution Shifts

NeurIPS 2021poster

Safely deploying machine learning models to the real world is often a challenging process. For example, models trained with data obtained from a specific geographic location tend to fail when queried with data obtained elsewhere, agents trained in a simulation can struggle to adapt when deployed in…

2020

Learning Robust Representations via Multi-View Information Bottleneck

ICLR 2020poster

The information bottleneck principle provides an information-theoretic method for representation learning, by training an encoder to retain all information which is relevant for predicting the label while minimizing the amount of other, excess information in the representation. The original formulat…

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