Mahdi Nikdan
4 Publications
2026 |
Published |
Conference Poster |
IST-REx-ID: 21857 |
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.
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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.
2025 |
Published |
Conference Paper |
IST-REx-ID: 22827 |
HALO: Hadamard-assisted lower-precision optimization for LLMs
S. Ashkboos, M. Nikdan, S. Tabesh, R. Lopez Castro, T. Hoefler, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2025, pp. 131755–131780.
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S. Ashkboos, M. Nikdan, S. Tabesh, R. Lopez Castro, T. Hoefler, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2025, pp. 131755–131780.
2024 |
Published |
Conference Paper |
IST-REx-ID: 18117 |
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.
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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.
2023 |
Published |
Conference Paper |
IST-REx-ID: 14460 |
SparseProp: Efficient sparse backpropagation for faster training of neural networks at the edge
M. Nikdan, T. Pegolotti, E.B. Iofinova, E. Kurtic, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2023, pp. 26215–26227.
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M. Nikdan, T. Pegolotti, E.B. Iofinova, E. Kurtic, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2023, pp. 26215–26227.
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4 Publications
2026 |
Published |
Conference Poster |
IST-REx-ID: 21857 |
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.
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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.
2025 |
Published |
Conference Paper |
IST-REx-ID: 22827 |
HALO: Hadamard-assisted lower-precision optimization for LLMs
S. Ashkboos, M. Nikdan, S. Tabesh, R. Lopez Castro, T. Hoefler, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2025, pp. 131755–131780.
[Preprint]
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S. Ashkboos, M. Nikdan, S. Tabesh, R. Lopez Castro, T. Hoefler, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2025, pp. 131755–131780.
2024 |
Published |
Conference Paper |
IST-REx-ID: 18117 |
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.
[Preprint]
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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.
2023 |
Published |
Conference Paper |
IST-REx-ID: 14460 |
SparseProp: Efficient sparse backpropagation for faster training of neural networks at the edge
M. Nikdan, T. Pegolotti, E.B. Iofinova, E. Kurtic, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2023, pp. 26215–26227.
[Preprint]
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M. Nikdan, T. Pegolotti, E.B. Iofinova, E. Kurtic, D.-A. Alistarh, in:, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2023, pp. 26215–26227.