Ali Anwar

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Joined

May 2021

Names

Ali Anwar (Preferred)

Emails

****@vt.edu (Confirmed)

****@ibm.com (Confirmed)

****@umn.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

University of Minnesota (umn.edu)

2022 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ali R Butt

2013 – 2018

Expertise

Federated Learning

Present

Distributed Systems

Present

AI Safety

Present

Decentralized Learning

Present

Publications

Sem-DPO: Mitigating Semantic Inconsistency in Preference Optimization for Prompt Engineering
Anas Mohamed, Azal Ahmad Khan, Xinran Wang, Ahmad Faraz Khan, Shuwen Ge, Saman Bahzad Khan, Ayaan Ahmad, Ali Anwar
- ACL 2026 (Findings)
- Readers: Everyone
Retrieval-of-Thought: Efficient Reasoning via Reusing Thoughts
Ammar Ahmed, Azal Ahmad Khan, Ayaan Ahmad, Sheng Di, Zirui Liu, Ali Anwar
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Expectations: Quantile-Guided Alignment for Risk-Calibrated Language Models
Xinran Wang, Jin Du, Azal Ahmad Khan, Qi Le, Enmao Diao, Jiawei Zhou, Jie Ding, Ali Anwar
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
FLOAT: Federated Learning Optimizations with Automated Tuning
Ahmad Faraz Khan, Azal Ahmad Khan, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Samuel Fountain, Ali R. Butt, Ali Anwar
- EuroSys '24: Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Computer Systems
- Readers: Everyone
FLStore: Efficient Federated Learning Storage for non-training workloads
Ahmad Faraz Khan, Samuel Fountain, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Ali R. Butt, Ali Anwar
- The Eighth Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys 2025)
- Readers: Everyone
Safety Aware Task Planning via Large Language Models in Robotics
Azal Ahmad Khan, Michael Andrev, Muhammad Ali Murtaza, Sergio Aguilera, Rui Zhang, Jie Ding, Seth Hutchinson, Ali Anwar
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
FLStore: Efficient Federated Learning Storage for non-training workloads
Ahmad Faraz Khan, Samuel Fountain, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Ali Raza Butt, Ali Anwar
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Probe Pruning: Accelerating LLMs through Dynamic Pruning via Model-Probing
Qi Le, Enmao Diao, Ziyan Wang, Xinran Wang, Jie Ding, Li Yang, Ali Anwar
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
LADs: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Driven DevOps
Ahmad Faraz Khan, Azal Ahmad Khan, Anas Mohamed, Haider Ali, Suchithra Moolinti, Sabaat Haroon, Usman Tahir, Mattia Fazzini, Ali Raza Butt, Ali Anwar
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MAP: Multi-Human-Value Alignment Palette
Xinran Wang, Qi Le, Ammar Ahmed, Enmao Diao, Yi Zhou, Nathalie Baracaldo, Jie Ding, Ali Anwar
- ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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