Alex Iacob

According to our database, Alex Iacob authored at least 17 papers between 2023 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
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2026

Response-Conditioned Parallel-to-Sequential Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems.

Nurbek Tastan, Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Meghdad Kurmanji, Nicholas D. Lane, Samuel Horvath, Karthik Nandakumar

CoRR, May, 2026

Rethinking Data Curation in LLM Training: Online Reweighting Offers Better Generalization than Offline Methods.

Wanru Zhao, Yihong Chen, Yuzhi Tang, Wentao Ma, Shengchao Hu, Shell Xu Hu, Alex Iacob, Abhinav Mehrotra, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, May, 2026

LoRDO: Distributed Low-Rank Optimization with Infrequent Communication.

Andrej Jovanovic, Alex Iacob, Mher Safaryan, Ionut-Vlad Modoranu, Lorenzo Sani, William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Dan Alistarh, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, February, 2026

2025

MT-DAO: Multi-Timescale Distributed Adaptive Optimizers with Local Updates.

Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanovic, Mher Safaryan, Meghdad Kurmanji, Lorenzo Sani, Samuel Horváth, William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, October, 2025

AbbIE: Autoregressive Block-Based Iterative Encoder for Efficient Sequence Modeling.

Preslav Aleksandrov, Meghdad Kurmanji, Fernando García-Redondo, David O'Shea, William F. Shen, Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Xinchi Qiu, Nicola Cancedda, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, July, 2025

DES-LOC: Desynced Low Communication Adaptive Optimizers for Training Foundation Models.

Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Mher Safaryan, Paris Giampouras, Samuel Horváth, Andrej Jovanovic, Meghdad Kurmanji, Preslav Aleksandrov, William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, May, 2025

SparsyFed: Sparse Adaptive Federated Training.

Adriano Guastella, Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob, Alessio Mora, Paolo Bellavista, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, April, 2025

LUNAR: LLM Unlearning via Neural Activation Redirection.

William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Meghdad Kurmanji, Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Yihong Chen, Nicola Cancedda, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, February, 2025

Photon: Federated LLM Pre-Training.

Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob, Zeyu Cao, Royson Lee, Bill Marino, Yan Gao, Wanru Zhao, Dongqi Cai, Zexi Li, Xinchi Qiu, Nicholas D. Lane

Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Learning and Systems, 2025

DEPT: Decoupled Embeddings for Pre-training Language Models.

Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Meghdad Kurmanji, William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Dongqi Cai, Yan Gao, Nicholas Donald Lane

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

SparsyFed: Sparse Adaptive Federated Learning.

Adriano Guastella, Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob, Alessio Mora, Paolo Bellavista, Nicholas Donald Lane

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

2024

Worldwide Federated Training of Language Models.

Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Bill Marino, Preslav Aleksandrov, William F. Shen, Nicholas Donald Lane

CoRR, 2024

The Future of Large Language Model Pre-training is Federated.

Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob, Zeyu Cao, Bill Marino, Yan Gao, Tomás Paulik, Wanru Zhao, William F. Shen, Preslav Aleksandrov, Xinchi Qiu, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, 2024

FedAnchor: Enhancing Federated Semi-Supervised Learning with Label Contrastive Loss for Unlabeled Clients.

Xinchi Qiu, Yan Gao, Lorenzo Sani, Heng Pan, Wanru Zhao, Pedro P. B. de Gusmao, Mina Alibeigi, Alex Iacob, Nicholas D. Lane

CoRR, 2024

2023

High-throughput Simulation of Federated Learning via Resource-Aware Client Placement.

Lorenzo Sani, Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão, Alex Iacob, Wanru Zhao, Xinchi Qiu, Yan Gao, Javier Fernández-Marqués, Nicholas Donald Lane

CoRR, 2023

Privacy in Multimodal Federated Human Activity Recognition.

Alex Iacob, Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão, Nicholas D. Lane, Armand K. Koupai, Mohammud Junaid Bocus, Raúl Santos-Rodríguez, Robert J. Piechocki, Ryan McConville

CoRR, 2023

Can Fair Federated Learning Reduce the need for Personalisation?

Alex Iacob, Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão, Nicholas D. Lane

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems, 2023