Zain Sarwar

@misc{sarwar2026structuredthoughts,
  title = {Structured Thoughts For Improved Reasoning And Context Pruning},
  author = {Sarwar, Zain and Chakraborty, Supriyo and Kapusuzoglu, Berkcan and Lee, C. H. and Das, Anirban and Rawls, Stephen and others},
  year = {2026},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

@inproceedings{panda2025dense,
  title = {Dense Backpropagation Improves Training for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts},
  author = {Panda, Ashwinee and Baherwani, Vatsal and Sarwar, Zain and Th{\'e}rien, Benjamin and Sahu, Sambit and Goldstein, Tom and Chakraborty, Supriyo},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
}

@misc{kapusuzoglu2025critique,
  title = {Critique-Guided Distillation for Robust Reasoning via Refinement},
  author = {Kapusuzoglu, Berkcan and Chakraborty, Supriyo and Sarwar, Zain and Lee, C. H. and Sahu, Sambit},
  howpublished = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

@article{therien2025continual,
  title = {Continual Pre-training of {MoEs}: How robust is your router?},
  author = {Th{\'e}rien, Benjamin and Joseph, Charles-{\'E}tienne and Sarwar, Zain and Panda, Ashwinee and Das, Anirban and Zhang, Shi-Xiong and Rawls, Stephen and Sahu, Sambit and Belilovsky, Eugene and Rish, Irina},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)},
  year = {2025},
}

@misc{sarwar2025lowrank,
  title = {Low Rank Experts Enable Specialization In Dense Transformers},
  author = {Sarwar, Zain and Panda, Ashwinee and Th{\'e}rien, Benjamin and Naphade, Milind and Sahu, Sambit and Chakraborty, Supriyo},
}

@inproceedings{sarwar2024structmoe,
  title = {{StructMoE}: Structured Mixture of Experts Using Low Rank Experts},
  author = {Sarwar, Zain and Panda, Ashwinee and Th{\'e}rien, Benjamin and Rawls, Stephen and Das, Anirban and Balasubramaniam, Kartik and Kapusuzoglu, Berkcan and Zhang, Shixiong and Sahu, Sambit and Naphade, Milind and Chakraborty, Supriyo},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing Workshop (ENLSP)},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{panda2024densews,
  title = {Dense Backpropagation Improves Routing for Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts},
  author = {Panda, Ashwinee and Baherwani, Vatsal and Sarwar, Zain and Th{\'e}rien, Benjamin and Rawls, Stephen and Sahu, Sambit and others},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Machine Learning and Compression, NeurIPS},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{sarwar2024mycroft,
  title = {{MYCROFT}: Towards Effective and Efficient External Data Augmentation},
  author = {Sarwar, Zain and Tran, Van and Bhagoji, Arjun Nitin and Feamster, Nick and Zhao, Ben Y. and Chakraborty, Supriyo},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Systems (MLforSys)},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{yang2024vr,
  title = {Can Virtual Reality Protect Users from Keystroke Inference Attacks?},
  author = {Yang, Zhuolin and Sarwar, Zain and Hwang, Iris and Bhaskar, Ronik and Zhao, Ben Y. and Zheng, Haitao},
  booktitle = {33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24)},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{yang2023keystroke,
  title = {Towards a General Video-based Keystroke Inference Attack},
  author = {Yang, Zhuolin and Chen, Yuxin and Sarwar, Zain and Schwartz, Hadleigh and Zhao, Ben Y. and Zheng, Haitao},
  booktitle = {32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23)},
  year = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{pu2023deepfake,
  title = {Deepfake Text Detection: Limitations and Opportunities},
  author = {Pu, Jiameng and Sarwar, Zain and Abdullah, Sifat Muhammad and Rehman, Abdullah and Kim, Yoonjin and Bhattacharya, Parantapa and Javed, Mobin and Viswanath, Bimal},
  booktitle = {IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S\&P)},
  year = {2023},
}