I worked on neural efficiency projects within Amazon, focusing on optimizing large-scale conversational AI systems for best-in-class accuracy and latency on both edge and cloud platforms.
C-010 Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen , Ershad Banijamal, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Zheng Zhang, "AdaZeta: Adaptive Zeroth-Order Tensor-Train Adaption for Memory-Efficient Large Language Models Fine-Tuning," in Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Miami, USA, 12-16 November, 2024.
C-009 Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan, Grant Strimel, Ariya Rastrow, Harish Mallidi, Kai Zhen , Hieu Nguyen, Nathan Susanj, Athanasios Mouchtaris, "Max-Margin Transducer Loss: Improving Sequence-Discriminative Training Using a Large-Margin Learning Strategy," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , Seoul, Korea, 14-19 April, 2024.