Shen, William F.

8 publications

ICLR 2026 DES-LOC: Desynced Low Communication Adaptive Optimizers for 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

ICLR 2026 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

ICLR 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

NeurIPS 2025 LLM Unlearning via Neural Activation Redirection William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Meghdad Kurmanji, Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Yihong Chen, Nicola Cancedda, Nicholas D. Lane

NeurIPS 2025 Permissioned LLMs: Enforcing Access Control in Large Language Models Bargav Jayaraman, Virendra Marathe, Hamid Mozaffari, William F. Shen, Krishnaram Kenthapadi

NeurIPSW 2024 Compliance Cards: Automated EU AI Act Compliance Analyses Amidst a Complex AI Supply Chain Bill Marino, Yaqub Chaudhary, Yulu Pi, Rui-Jie Yew, Preslav Aleksandrov, Carwyn Rahman, William F. Shen, Isaac Robinson, Nicholas Donald Lane

NeurIPSW 2024 The Future of Large Language Model Pre-Training Is Federated Lorenzo Sani, Alex Iacob, Zeyu Cao, Bill Marino, Yan Gao, Tomas Paulik, Wanru Zhao, William F. Shen, Preslav Aleksandrov, Xinchi Qiu, Nicholas Donald Lane

NeurIPSW 2024 Worldwide Federated Training of Language Models Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Bill Marino, Preslav Aleksandrov, William F. Shen, Nicholas Donald Lane