Salman Avestimehr
Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Researches information theory and machine learning, especially federated learning and secure, trustworthy distributed training.
Salman Avestimehr's lab at USC works on trustworthy & safe ML, learning theory & optimization and distributed, cloud & edge systems. 8 papers since 2023, 6 at top venues, mostly AAAI and ACL. 6 PhD students. 25 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 75%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 25
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 4 papers2025 · T1 4
- 0 papers2024 · T1 0
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, ICML, Nature Communications
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Learning theory & optimization1 paper
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- Distributed, cloud & edge systems0 papers
- researches information0 papers
- distributed training0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- AAAI (T1)GEM: A Scale-Aware and Distribution-Sensitive Sparse Fine-Tuning Framework
- ICML (T1)Hair-Trigger Alignment: Black-Box Evaluation Cannot Guarantee Post-Update Alignment
- Communications AI and Computing, Nature PortfolioLANTERN: A Machine Learning Framework for LNP Transfection Efficiency Prediction
- IEEE BITS the Information Theory MagazineUncertainty Quantification for Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models
20254 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)FALCON: An ML Framework for Fully Automated Layout-Constrained Analog Circuit Design
- ACL (T1)Reconsidering LLM Uncertainty Estimation Methods in the Wild
- Nature Communications (T1)Towards Fair Decentralized Benchmarking of Healthcare AI with Federated Tumor Segmentation
- EMNLP (T1)TruthTorchLM: A Comprehensive Library for Predicting Truthfulness in LLM Outputs
Where alumni went25 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 2
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- USC
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