Publications

60 papers. * denotes equal contribution. See Google Scholar for the latest.

2026

Hair-Trigger Alignment: Black-Box Evaluation Cannot Guarantee Post-Update Alignment

Yavuz Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Salman Avestimehr, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ICML 2026

EPSVEC: Efficient and Private Synthetic Data Generation via Dataset Vectors

Amin Banayeeanzade, Qingchuan Yang, Deqing Fu, Spencer Hong, Erin Babinsky, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar, Robin Jia, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ICML 2026

Beyond the Trade-off: Unifying Fairness and Performance in Federated Learning

Lin Wang, Zhichao Wang, Ye Shi, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Xiaoying Tang.

ICML 2026

Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness

Amin Banayeeanzade, Ala N Tak, Fatemeh Bahrani, Anahita Bolourani, Leonardo Blas, Emilio Ferrara, Jonathan Gratch, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ACL 2026

OpaqueToolsBench: Learning Nuances of Tool Behavior Through Interaction

Skyler Hallinan, Thejas Venkatesh, Xiang Ren, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Ashwin Paranjape, Yuhao Zhang, Jack Hessel.

CAIS 2026

f-INE: A Hypothesis Testing Framework for Estimating Influence under Training Randomness

Subhodip Panda, Dhruv Tarsadiya, Shashwat Sourav, Prathosh A.P, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ICLR 2026

Beyond URLs: Metadata Diversity and Position for Efficient LLM Pretraining

Dongyang Fan, Diba Hashemi, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Martin Jaggi.

ICLR 2026

Uncertainty as Feature Gaps: Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs in Contextual Question-Answering

Yavuz Bakman, Sungmin Kang, Zhiqi Huang, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Catarina G Belém, Chenyang Zhu, Anoop Kumar, Alfy Samuel, Salman Avestimehr, Daben Liu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ICLR 2026

Online Learning in a Creator Economy

Banghua Zhu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Jiantao Jiao, Michael I. Jordan.

Artificial Intelligence Science and Engineering 2026

VoxGuard: Evaluating User and Attribute Privacy in Speech via Membership Inference Attacks

Efthymios Tsaprazlis, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Tiantian Feng, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Shrikanth Narayanan.

ICASSP 2026

Sparks of Rationality: Do Reasoning LLMs Align with Human Judgment and Choice?

Ala N. Tak, Amin Banayeeanzade, Anahita Bolourani, Fatemeh Bahrani, Ashutosh Chaubey, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Norbert Schwarz, Jonathan Gratch

arXiv 2026

2025

A Systematic Analysis of Base Model Choice for Reward Modeling

Kian Ahrabian, Pegah Jandaghi, Negar Mokhberian, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Jay Pujara.

EMNLP Main 2025

The Surprising Effectiveness of Membership Inference with Simple N-Gram Coverage

Skyler Hallinan, Jaehun Jung, Melanie Sclar, Ximing Lu, Abhilasha Ravichander, Sahana Ramnath, Yejin Choi, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Xiang Ren.

COLM 2025

TruthTorchLM: A Comprehensive Library for Predicting Truthfulness in LLM Outputs

Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Sungmin Kang, Alperen Öziş, Hayrettin Eren Yildiz, Mitash Ashish Shah, Zhiqi Huang, Anoop Kumar, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Salman Avestimehr.

EMNLP Demo 2025

Reconsidering LLM Uncertainty Estimation Methods in the Wild

Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Sungmin Kang, Tuo Zhang, Baturalp Buyukates, Salman Avestimehr, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ACL Main 2025

Communication-Efficient Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Generalized Heavy-Ball Momentum

Riccardo Zaccone, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Carlo Masone, Marco Ciccone.

TMLR 2025

ContextLeak: Auditing Leakage in Private In-Context Learning Methods

Jacob Choi, Shuying Cao, Xingjian Dong, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ICML 2025 Workshop MemFM

LIA: Privacy-Preserving Data Quality Evaluation in Federated Learning Using a Lazy Influence Approximation

Ljubomir Rokvic, Panayiotis Danassis, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Boi Faltings.

IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2025

The Price is Right? Making Data Valuations Incentive-Compatible

Dongyang Fan, Tyler J. Rotello, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ICLR Workshop on Data Problems 2025

2024

DAVED: Data Acquisition via Experimental Design for Decentralized Data Markets

Charles Lu, Baihe Huang, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Michael I. Jordan.

NeurIPS 2024

Conformal Prediction Adaptive to Unknown Subpopulation Shifts

Nien-Shao (Regan) Wang, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

NeurIPS SFLFM Workshop 2024

Defection-Free Collaboration between Competitors in a Learning System

Mariel Werner, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Michael I Jordan.

NeurIPS FL@FM Workshop 2024

My-This-Your-That - Interpretable Identification of Systematic Bias in Federated Learning for Biomedical Images

Mary-Anne Hartley, Klavdiia Naumova, Arnout Devos, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Martin Jaggi.

NPJ Digital Medicine 2024

Collaborative Heterogeneous Causal Inference Beyond Meta-analysis

Tianyu Guo, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Michael I Jordan.

ICML 2024

Privacy Can Arise Endogenously in an Economic System with Learning Agents

Nivasini Ananthakrishnan, Tiffany Ding, Mariel Werner, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Michael I Jordan.

FORC 2024

Optimization with Access to Auxiliary Information

El Mahdi Chayti, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

TMLR 2024🏆 Invited for ICLR 2025 Oral

2023

Provably Personalized and Robust Federated Learning

Mariel Werner, Lie He, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Michael I. Jordan, Martin Jaggi.

TMLR 2023

Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification

Charles Lu*, Yaodong Yu*, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Michael I. Jordan, Ramesh Raskar.

ICML 2023

Evaluating and Incentivizing Diverse Data Contributions in Collaborative Learning

Baihe Huang, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Michael I. Jordan.

ICML FL@FM Workshop 2023

Federated Learning Showdown: The Comparative Analysis of Federated Learning Frameworks

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Narasimha Veeraragavan, Severin Elvatun, Jan Nygård.

FMEC 2023

Agree to Disagree: Diversity through Disagreement for Better Transferability

Matteo Pagliardini, Martin Jaggi, François Fleuret, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ICLR 2023🏆 Notable Top 5%

2022

Mechanisms that Incentivize Data Sharing in Federated Learning

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy*, Wenshuo Guo*, Michael I. Jordan.

Arxiv 2022🏆 Best paper

Towards Provably Personalized Federated Learning via Threshold-Clustering of Similar Clients

Mariel Werner, Lie He, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Mike I Jordan, Martin Jaggi.

FL NeurIPS workshop 2022

Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Learning via Self-Centered Clipping

Lie He, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Martin Jaggi.

FL NeurIPS workshop 2022

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

Jean du Terrail et al. (multi-institutional collaborative effort)

NeurIPS 2022

TCT: Convexifying Federated Learning using Bootstrapped Neural Tangent Kernels

Yaodong Yu, Alexander Wei, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Yi Ma, Michael I. Jordan.

NeurIPS 2022

Towards Model Agnostic Federated Learning using Knowledge Distillation

Andrei Afonin, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

ICLR 2022

2021

A Field Guide to Federated Optimization

Jianyu Wang, et al. (Collaborative survey by the FL community)

Arxiv

Mime: Mimicking Centralized Stochastic Algorithms in Federated Learning

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Martin Jaggi, Satyen Kale, Mehryar Mohri, Sashank Reddi, Sebastian U. Stich, Ananda Theertha Suresh.

NeurIPS 2021

RelaySum for Decentralized Deep Learning on Heterogeneous Data

Thijs Vogels*, Lie He*, Anastasia Koloskova, Tao Lin, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Sebastian U. Stich, Martin Jaggi.

NeurIPS 2021

Optimal Model Averaging: Towards Personalized Collaborative Learning

Felix Grimberg, Mary-Anne Hartley, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Martin Jaggi.

FL ICML workshop 2021🏆 Best paper

Learning from History for Byzantine Robust Optimization

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Lie He, Martin Jaggi.

ICML 2021🏆 Spotlight

Quasi-Global Momentum: Accelerating Decentralized Deep Learning on Heterogeneous Data

Tao Lin, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Sebastian Stich, Martin Jaggi.

ICML 2021

2020

Why Adaptive methods beat SGD for Attention Models

Jingzhao Zhang, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Andreas Veit, Seungyeon Kim, Sashank Reddi, Sanjiv Kumar.

NeurIPS 2020

PowerGossip: Practical Communication Compression in Decentralized Deep Learning

Thijs Vogels, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Martin Jaggi.

NeurIPS 2020

Weight Erosion: An Update Aggregation Scheme for Personalized Collaborative Machine Learning

Felix Grimberg, Mary-Anne Hartley, Martin Jaggi, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

DART 2020

Secure Byzantine Machine Learning

Lie He, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Martin Jaggi.

SPICY-FL NeurIPS workshop 2020

Accelerated Gradient Boosted Machines

Haihao Lu*, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy*, Natalia Ponomareva, Vahab Mirrokni.

AISTATS 2020

The Error-Feedback Framework: Better Rates for SGD with Delayed Gradients and Compressed Communication

Sebastian Stich, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.

JMLR 2020

SCAFFOLD: Stochastic Controlled Averaging for Federated Learning

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Satyen Kale, Mehryar Mohri, Sashank Reddi, Sebastian Stich, Ananda Theertha Suresh.

ICML 2020

2019

PowerSGD: Practical Low-rank Gradient Compression for Distributed Optimization

Thijs Vogels, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Martin Jaggi.

NeurIPS 2019

Global Convergence of Newton-type Methods without Strong-Convexity or Lipschitz Gradients

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Sebastian Stich, Martin Jaggi.

NeurIps OptML 2019

Efficient greedy coordinate descent for composite problems

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy*, Anastasia Koloskova*, Martin Jaggi.

AISTATS 2019

Error Feedback fixes SignSGD and other Gradient Compression Schemes

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Quentin Rebjock, Sebastian Stich, Martin Jaggi.

ICML 2019🏆 Long talk

2018

On Matching Pursuit and Coordinate Descent

Francesco Locatello*, Anant Raj*, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Sebastian Stich, Martin Jaggi.

ICML 2018

Adaptive Balancing of Gradient and Update Computation Times using Approximate Subproblem Solvers

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Sebastian Stich, Martin Jaggi.

AISTATS 2018🏆 Oral

2016

Assignment Techniques for Crowdsourcing Sensitive Tasks

Elisa Celis*, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy*, Ishaan Singh*, Shailesh Vaya*.

CSCW 2016

Multi-Broadcasting under SINR Model

Darek Kowalski*, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy*, Shailesh Vaya*

PODC 2016

Some results on a class of van der Waerden Numbers

Sai Praneeth Karimireddy*, Kaushik Maran*, Dravyansh Sharma*, Amitabha Tripati*.

Rocky Journal of Mathematics Vol. 48