Erum Mushtaq

PhD student, ECE, University of Southern California

Joined

May 2021

Names

Erum Mushtaq (Preferred)

Emails

****@usc.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

PhD student

ECE, University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2018 – 2026

MS student

ECE, NUST’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) (seecs.edu.pk)

2015 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Salman Avestimehr

Present

Expertise

Self-Supervised Learning

Present

Multimodal Learning

Present

Continual Learning

Present

Trustworthiness of Vision Language Models

Present

Publications

From Narrow Unlearning to Emergent Misalignment: Causes, Consequences, and Containment in LLMs
Erum Mushtaq, Anil Ramakrishna, Satyapriya Krishna, Sattvik Sahai, Prasoon Goyal, Kai-Wei Chang, Tao Zhang, Rahul Gupta
- Mech Interp Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Detecting Unreliable Responses in Generative Vision-Language Models via Visual Uncertainty
Kiana Avestimehr, Emily Aye, Zalan Fabian, Erum Mushtaq
- QUESTION Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Distributed Architecture Search Over Heterogeneous Distributions
Erum Mushtaq, Chaoyang He, Jie Ding, Salman Avestimehr
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
SPIDER: Searching Personalized Neural Architecture for Federated Learning
Erum Mushtaq, Chaoyang He, Jie Ding, Salman Avestimehr
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
FLamby: Datasets and Benchmarks for Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Realistic Healthcare Settings
Jean Ogier du Terrail, Samy-Safwan Ayed, Edwige Cyffers, Felix Grimberg, Chaoyang He, Regis Loeb, Paul Mangold, Tanguy Marchand, Othmane Marfoq, Erum Mushtaq, Boris Muzellec, Constantin Philippenko, Santiago Silva, Maria Teleńczuk, Shadi Albarqouni, Salman Avestimehr, Aurélien Bellet, Aymeric Dieuleveut, Martin Jaggi, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy et al. (4 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 17 Sept 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Datasets and Benchmarks
- Readers: Everyone
FedNAS: Federated Deep Learning via Neural Architecture Search
Chaoyang He, Erum Mushtaq, Jie Ding, Salman Avestimehr
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone
SSFL: Tackling Label Deficiency in Federated Learning via Personalized Self-Supervision
Chaoyang He, Zhengyu Yang, Erum Mushtaq, Sunwoo Lee, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Salman Avestimehr
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone

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Erum Mushtaq

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Emails

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Expertise

Publications

From Narrow Unlearning to Emergent Misalignment: Causes, Consequences, and Containment in LLMs

Detecting Unreliable Responses in Generative Vision-Language Models via Visual Uncertainty

Distributed Architecture Search Over Heterogeneous Distributions

SPIDER: Searching Personalized Neural Architecture for Federated Learning

FLamby: Datasets and Benchmarks for Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Realistic Healthcare Settings

FedNAS: Federated Deep Learning via Neural Architecture Search

SSFL: Tackling Label Deficiency in Federated Learning via Personalized Self-Supervision

Co-Authors