Arshia Afzal

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EPFL STI IEM LIONS

ELD 244 (Bâtiment ELD)

Station 11, 1015 Lausanne

I’m Arshia, a third-year Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at EPFL advised by Professor Volkan Cevher. My research explores efficient and fast LLMs by merging deep learning architectures with systems.

Previously, I studied Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology and earned a Bronze Medal at the 2018 International Physics Olympiad 🥉 and a Gold medal of National Physics Olympiad 🥇.

Beyond academics, I’m a passionate rock climber 🧗‍♂️ and pianist 🎹! :)

news

Feb 25, 2025 🦁 LION is out! Check out our blog post for an in-depth look, and explore our new bi-directional linear attention framework on arXiv! 😃
Oct 20, 2024 Best Poster award of Neuro-X!
Jul 21, 2024 REST was accepted at ICML! 🤩

selected publications

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    Linear Attention for Efficient Bidirectional Sequence Modeling
    Arshia Afzal, Elias Abad Rocamora, Leyla Naz Candogan, and 5 more authors
    2025
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    REST: Efficient and Accelerated EEG Seizure Analysis through Residual State Updates
    Arshia Afzal, Grigorios Chrysos, Volkan Cevher, and 1 more author
    , Vienna. Webpage of paper can be found here , Jul 2024