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Salman Avestimehr

Publications 2

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Aligned Data Can Induce Misalignment via Context Confusion

Yavuz Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Baris Askin et al. · 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are frequently updated for various use cases, where filtering out misaligned training samples is a common practice for preventing post-update misalignment. However, alignment is inherently context-dependent: a recommendation that is aligned in one context may be inappropriate in another. Fo …

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ASPIRE: Asynchronous Batched Self-Speculative Decoding for Long-Context LLM Inference

Amir Ziashahabi, Hossein Entezari Zarch, Lei Gao et al. · 2026

Long-context LLM inference is bottlenecked by attention, whose repeated KV-cache reads make decoding memory-bound. Self-speculative decoding alleviates this by drafting tokens with sparse attention and verifying them with full attention, but existing batched methods remain synchronized: all requests in a batch share a …

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