News

2026

  • Three papers from our lab will appear at ICLR 2026:
    • “Robust Federated Inference” by Akash Dhasade, Sadegh Farhadkhani, Rachid Guerraoui, Nirupam Gupta, Maxime Jacovella, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, and Rafael Pinot
    • “Navigating the Accuracy-Size Trade-Off with Flexible Model Merging” by Akash Dhasade, Divyansh Jhunjhunwala, Milos Vujasinovic, Gauri Joshi, and Anne-Marie Kermarrec
    • “Optimizing Agent Planning for Security and Autonomy” by Aashish Kolluri, Rishi Sharma, Manuel Costa, Boris Köpf, Tobias Nießen, Mark Russinovich, Shruti Tople, and Santiago Zanella-Béguelin

2025

  • “Leveraging Approximate Caching for Faster Retrieval-Augmented Generation” by Shai Bergman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Diana Petrescu, Rafael Pires, Mathis Randl, Martijn de Vos, and Ji Zhang has been accepted at Middleware 2025.
  • Akash Dhasade was awarded the prestigious SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Grant.
  • Sayan Biswas was awarded Young Scholars’ Development Program Fellowship from ACM CCS 2025.
  • “Robust ML Auditing using Prior Knowledge” by Jade Garcia Bourrée, Augustin Godinot, Martijn De Vos, Milos Vujasinovic, Sayan Biswas, Gilles Tredan, Erwan Le Merrer, and Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been accepted as spotlight (top 2.6% papers) at ICML 2025.
  • Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been honoured with the distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award at EuroSys 2025.
  • Five papers from our lab will appear at the EuroMLSys 2025 workshop (co-located with EuroSys 2025):
    • “Practical Federated Learning without a Server” by Akash DhasadeAnne-Marie Kermarrec, Erick Lavoie, Johan Pouwelse, Rishi Sharma, and Martijn de Vos
    • “Leveraging Approximate Caching for Faster Retrieval-Augmented Generation” by Shai Aviram Bergman, Zhang Ji, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Diana Petrescu, Rafael Pires, Mathis Randl, and Martijn de Vos
    • “Efficient Federated Search for Retrieval-Augmented Generation” by Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Diana Petrescu, Rafael Pires, Mathis Randl, and Martijn de Vos
    • “Accelerating MoE Model Inference with Expert Sharding” by Oana Balmau, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafael Pires, André Loureiro Espírito Santo, Martijn de Vos, and Milos Vujasinovic
    • “Harnessing Increased Client Participation with Cohort-Parallel Federated Learning” by Akash Dhasade, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Tuan-Ahn Nguyen (Independent Researcher), Rafael Pires, and Martijn de Vos
  • Two papers from our lab will appear in the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) 2025 and will be presented at the 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2025):
    • “Low-Cost Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Learning” (in PoPETS Issue 3)by Sayan Biswas, Davide Frey, Romaric Gaudel, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Dimitri Lerévérend, Rafael Pires, Rishi Sharma, and François Taïani
    • “Noiseless Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Learning” (in PoPETS Issue 1) by Sayan Biswas, Mathieu Even, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Laurent Massoulie, Rafael Pires, Rishi Sharma, and Martijn de Vos
  • “Boosting Asynchronous Decentralized Learning with Model Fragmentation” by Sayan Biswas, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Alexis Marouani, Rafael Pires, Rishi Sharma, and Martijn de Vos has been accepted at the 34th ACM Web Conference (WWW 2025) and is selected for oral presentation (top 7% papers).

2024

  • Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron to the newly established Presidential Science Council, joining 11 other distinguished scientists from across all disciplines.
  • Anastasiia Kucherenko successfully defended her PhD thesis.
  • “Revisiting Ensembling in One-Shot Federated Learning” by Youssef Allouah, Akash Dhasade, Rachid Guerraoui, Nirupam Gupta, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafael Pinot, Rafael Pires, and Rishi Sharma was accepted at NeurIPS 2024.