Hybrid decentralized optimization: Leveraging both first- and zeroth-order optimizers for faster convergence
S. Talaei, M. Ansaripour, G. Nadiradze, D.-A. Alistarh, Proceedings of The39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 39 (2025) 20778–20786.

The journey matters: Average parameter count over pre-training unifies sparse and dense scaling laws
T. Jin, A.I. Humayun, U. Evci, S. Subramanian, A. Yazdanbakhsh, D.-A. Alistarh, G.K. Dziugaite, in:, 13th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2025, pp. 85165–85181.

Wasserstein distances, neuronal entanglement, and sparsity
S. Sawmya, L. Kong, I. Markov, D.-A. Alistarh, N. Shavit, in:, 13th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2025, pp. 26244–26274.

Scalable mechanistic neural networks
J. Chen, D. Yao, A.A. Pervez, D.-A. Alistarh, F. Locatello, in:, 13th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2025, pp. 63716–63737.

LDAdam: Adaptive optimization from low-dimensional gradient statistics
T. Robert, M. Safaryan, I.-V. Modoranu, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, 13th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2025, pp. 101877–101913.

MARLIN: Mixed-precision auto-regressive parallel inference on Large Language Models
E. Frantar, R.L. Castro, J. Chen, T. Hoefler, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, pp. 239–251.

Near-optimal leader election in population protocols on graphs
D.-A. Alistarh, J. Rybicki, S. Voitovych, Distributed Computing (2025).

cGive me B or give me deathd? Accuracy-performance trade-offs in LLM quantization
E. Kurtic, A. Marques, S. Pandit, M. Kurtz, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025, pp. 26872–26886.

In the search of optimal tree networks: Hardness and heuristics
P. Martynov, M. Buzdalov, S. Pankratov, V. Aksenov, S. Schmid, in:, Proceedings of the 2025 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, pp. 249–257.

Scalable multitemperature free energy sampling of classical Ising spin states
P. Tuo, Z. Zeng, J. Chen, B. Cheng, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 21 (2025) 11427–11435.

Communication-efficient federated learning with data and client heterogeneity
H. Zakerinia, S. Talaei, G. Nadiradze, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, ML Research Press, 2024, pp. 3448–3456.

How to prune your language model: Recovering accuracy on the "Sparsity May Cry" benchmark
E. Kurtic, T. Hoefler, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, ML Research Press, 2024, pp. 542–553.

Extreme compression of large language models via additive quantization
V. Egiazarian, A. Panferov, D. Kuznedelev, E. Frantar, A. Babenko, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2024, pp. 12284–12303.

RoSA: Accurate parameter-efficient fine-tuning via robust adaptation
M. Nikdan, S. Tabesh, E. Crncevic, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2024, pp. 38187–38206.

Error feedback can accurately compress preconditioners
I.-V. Modoranu, A. Kalinov, E. Kurtic, E. Frantar, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2024, pp. 35910–35933.

SpQR: A sparse-quantized representation for near-lossless LLM weight compression
T. Dettmers, R.A. Svirschevski, V. Egiazarian, D. Kuznedelev, E. Frantar, S. Ashkboos, A. Borzunov, T. Hoefler, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, 12th International Conference on Learning Representations, OpenReview, 2024.

Compressing large neural networks : Algorithms, systems and scaling laws
E. Frantar, Compressing Large Neural Networksf: Algorithms, Systems and Scaling Laws, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2024.

QMoE: Sub-1-bit compression of trillion parameter models
E. Frantar, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, P. Gibbons, G. Pekhimenko, C. De Sa (Eds.),  Proceedings of Machine Learning and Systems, 2024.

Scaling laws for sparsely-connected foundation models
E. Frantar, C.R. Ruiz, N. Houlsby, D.-A. Alistarh, U. Evci, in:, The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024.

Game dynamics and equilibrium computation in the population protocol model
D.-A. Alistarh, K. Chatterjee, M. Karrabi, J.M. Lazarsfeld, in:, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, pp. 40–49.