Francesco Tonin

Research Interests:

  • Generative models
  • Deep Learning
  • Unsupervised learning
  • Duality
  • Transformers

 

Biography

Francesco Tonin is currently a post-doctoral researcher with the Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He obtained his master’s degree in Computer Science from KU Leuven, Belgium in 2019. Sequentially, he pursued a PhD degree at KU Leuven under the supervision of Prof. Johan Suykens and Prof. Panos Patrinos.

Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Neural Block Linearization

M. Erdogan; F. Tonin; V. Cevher 

2025. 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), San Diego, USA, 2025-12-02 – 2025-12-07.

Linear Attention for Efficient Bidirectional Sequence Modeling

A. Afzal; E. Abad Rocamora; L. Candogan; P. Puigdemont; F. Tonin et al. 

2025. 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), San Diego, USA, 2025-12-02 – 2025-12-07.

HeNCler: Node Clustering in Heterophilous Graphs via Learned Asymmetric Similarity

S. Achten; Z. Op de Beeck; F. Tonin; V. Cevher; J. A. Suykens 

2025. 34th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2025-09-09 – 2025-09-12. p. 55 – 68. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-04552-2_8.

Accelerating Spectral Clustering under Fairness Constraints

F. Tonin; A. Lambert; J. Suykens; V. Cevher 

2025. Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning, Vancouver, Canada, 2025-07-13 – 2025-07-19.

CHAMELEON: A Flexible Data-mixing Framework for Language Model Pretraining and Finetuning

W. Xie; F. Tonin; V. Cevher 

2025. Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning, Vancouver, Canada, 2025-07-13 – 2025-07-19.

Quantum-Peft: Ultra Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

T. Koike-Akino; F. Tonin; Y. Wu; F. Z. Wu; L. Candogan et al. 

2025. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, Singapore, 2025-04-24-2025-04-28.

Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models

Zhan Li; Y. Wu; Y. Chen; F. Tonin; E. Abad Rocamora et al. 

2024. 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver Convention Center, 2024-12-10 – 2024-12-15.

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