BJBrian Jalaian

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Workshops, talks, new papers, and updates from the lab.

  1. Oct 2026

    Chairing the LEAF workshop at IEEE MILCOM 2026

    I'm in the Washington, DC area co-chairing LEAF (Lightweight Edge-Adaptive Foundation Models for Intelligence and Autonomous Reasoning), Workshop 4 at IEEE MILCOM 2026, with Venkat Dasari and Peng Wang of DEVCOM ARL. The program has eleven papers on compressing and deploying foundation models at the tactical edge, including two posters from our group: GOE and Measure, Then Compress.

  2. Sep 2026

    CUSP preprint on arXiv

    Johnny Yu, David Garcia, and I released CUSP, which splits a multi-agent vision-language system's uncertainty into each agent's own doubt and the disagreement between agents, so the system can catch errors and know when to abstain.

  3. Oct 2025

    Two student-led papers at IEEE MILCOM 2025

    Jake Sander presented fine-tuning vs. distillation for compressing LLMs onto edge hardware, and Huynh Tran showed that neurosymbolic transfer learning improves network intrusion detection.