On the utility and effects of efficiency in artificial neural networks
E.B. Iofinova, On the Utility and Effects of Efficiency in Artificial Neural Networks, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026.

Panza: Investigating the feasibility of fully-local personalized text generation
A. Nicolicioiu, E.B. Iofinova, A. Jovanovic, E. Kurtic, M. Nikdan, A. Panferov, I. Markov, N. Shavit, D.-A. Alistarh, Panza: Investigating the Feasibility of Fully-Local Personalized Text Generation, OpenReview, 2026.

Behemoth: Benchmarking unlearning in LLMs using fully synthetic data
E.B. Iofinova, D.-A. Alistarh, ArXiv (n.d.).

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 38 (2025) 207–245.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

EvoPress: Accurate dynamic model compression via evolutionary search
O. Sieberling, D. Kuznedelev, E. Kurtic, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2025, pp. 55556–55590.

Layer-wise quantization for quantized optimistic dual averaging
A.D. Nguyen, I. Markov, F.Z. Wu, A. Ramezani-Kebrya, K. Antonakopoulos, D.-A. Alistarh, V. Cevher, in:, 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2025, pp. 46026–46072.

An almost-logarithmic lower bound for leader election with bounded value contention
D.-A. Alistarh, F. Ellen, A. Fedorov, in:, 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2025, p. 3:1-3:16.

Sparse Fine-Tuning for Inference Acceleration of Large Language Models
E. Kurtic, D. Kuznedelev, E. Frantar, M. Goinv, S. Pandit, A. Agarwalla, T. Nguyen, A. Marques, M. Kurtz, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, P. Passban, A. Way, M. Rezagholizadeh (Eds.), Enhancing LLM Performance. Efficacy, Fine-Tuning, and Inference Techniques, Springer Nature, 2025, pp. 83–97.

Position: It's time to act on the risk of efficient personalized text generation
E.B. Iofinova, A. Jovanovic, D.-A. Alistarh, ArXiv (n.d.).

Federated SGD with local asynchrony
B. Chatterjee, V. Kungurtsev, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, IEEE, 2024, pp. 857–868.

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.