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 Professors Volkan Cevher and Mahsa Shoaran. 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
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