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Ali Abbasi

Ali Abbasi

Master Student 2022 - 2024. currently Ph.D. student at University of South California.

Federated Learning

Biography

Ali Abbasi was a Master’s student at DENOS Lab from 2022 to 2024, completing his MSc on carbon-aware federated learning with model size adaptation in July 2024. He is the lead author of FedGreen, which measures the carbon emissions of federated training and adapts model size to each client’s carbon profile and location using ordered dropout. He is now a PhD student at the University of Southern California working on machine learning, federated learning, and optimization.

Projects

  • FedGreen

    Carbon-aware federated learning that adapts the model size shared with each client according to its carbon profile and location.

Publications

  • IEEE ICC-W2024

    FedGreen: Carbon-aware Federated Learning with Model Size Adaptation

    Ali Abbasi, Fan Dong, Xin Wang, Henry Leung, Jiayu Zhou, and Steve Drew

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