Iason Chalas

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Efficient and distributed learning · 75% Language models and text generation · 25%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 67% Memory systems · 33%

Topics — the 7 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model
0.912025
Analog Foundation Models · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression › quantization › low-precision computation › low-precision neural network
low-precision inference
0.912025
Analog Foundation Models · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
model compression
0.912025
Analog Foundation Models · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression
quantization
0.912025
Analog Foundation Models · NeurIPS 2025
Memory systems › processing-in-memory › computing-in-memory
analog in-memory computing
0.912025
Analog Foundation Models · NeurIPS 2025
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures › machine learning accelerator
neural network inference
0.912025
Analog Foundation Models · NeurIPS 2025
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures
quantization
0.912025
Analog Foundation Models · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

quantization-aware training · 1.7analog noise adaptation · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Analog Foundation Models
abstract
Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) is a promising compute paradigm to improve speed and power efficiency of neural network inference beyond the limits of conventional von Neumann-based architectures. However, AIMC introduces fundamental challenges such as noisy computations and strict constraints on input and output quantization. Because of these constraints and imprecisions, off-the-shelf LLMs are not able to achieve 4-bit-level performance when deployed on AIMC-based hardware. While researchers previously investigated recovering this accuracy gap on small, mostly vision-based models, a generic method applicable to LLMs pre-trained on trillions of tokens does not yet exist. In this work, we introduce a general and scalable method to robustly adapt LLMs for execution on noisy, low-precision analog hardware. Our approach enables state-of-the-art models — including Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct and Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — to retain performance comparable to 4-bit weight, 8-bit activation baselines, despite the presence of analog noise and quantization constraints. Additionally, we show that as a byproduct of our training methodology, analog foundation models can be quantized for inference on low-precision digital hardware. Finally, we show that our models also benefit from test-time compute scaling, showing better scaling behavior than models trained with 4-bit weight and 8-bit static input quantization. Our work bridges the gap between high-capacity LLMs and efficient analog hardware, offering a path toward energy-efficient foundation models. Code is available at [github.com/IBM/analog-foundation-models](https://github.com/IBM/analog-foundation-models).
Julian Büchel, Iason Chalas, Giovanni Acampa, An Chen 0002, Omobayode Fagbohungbe, Hsinyu Tsai, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Manuel Le Gallo, Abbas Rahimi, Abu Sebastian
NeurIPS2