Publications

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Uncertainty as Feature Gaps: Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs in Contextual Question-Answering

Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Sungmin Kang, Zhiqi Huang, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Catarina G Bel'em, Chenyang Zhu, Anoop Kumar, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu, Salman Avestimehr, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

ICLR 2026

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GEM: A Scale-Aware and Distribution-Sensitive Sparse Fine-Tuning Framework for Effective Downstream Adaptation

Sungmin Kang, Jisoo Kim, Salman Avestimehr, Sunwoo Lee

AAAI 2026

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Uncertainty Quantification for Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models: Foundations, Methodology, and Future Directions

Sungmin Kang, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Baturalp Buyukates, Salman Avestimehr

IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine 2025

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Layer-wise Update Aggregation with Recycling for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning

Jisoo Kim, Sungmin Kang, Sunwoo Lee

NeurIPS 2025

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TruthTorchLM: A Comprehensive Library for Predicting Truthfulness in LLM Outputs

Duygu Nur Yaldiz*, Yavuz Faruk Bakman*, Sungmin Kang, Alperen Ozis, Hayrettin Eren Yildiz, Mitash Ashish Shah, Zhiqi Huang, Anoop Kumar, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Salman Avestimehr

EMNLP 2025 System Demonstrations

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Reconsidering LLM Uncertainty Estimation Methods in the Wild

Yavuz Faruk Bakman*, Duygu Nur Yaldiz*, Sungmin Kang, Tuo Zhang, Baturalp Buyukates, Salman Avestimehr, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

ACL 2025

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