Publications

* Equal Contribution, † Corresponding Author(s)

2026

  1. Preprint
    Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models
    Arman Akbari, Ci Zhang, Arash Akbari, Lin Zhao, Yixiao Chen, Weiwei Chen, Xuan Zhang, Geng Yuan, and Yanzhi Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.05254, 2026
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  2. Preprint
    Q-WAM: 4-Bit Quantization of World Action Models with Action-Subspace Protection
    Arash Akbari*, Arman Akbari*, Jingwu Luo, Yuhao Lei, Yi Gao, Weiwei Chen, Xuan Zhang, Zhenman Fang, Geng Yuan, and Yanzhi Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.33269, 2026
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  3. NeurIPS
    ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
    Arash Akbari, Arman Akbari, Masih Eskandar, Qitao Tan, Yixiao Chen, Jingwu Luo, Bertha Pangaribuan, Liyun Zhang, Jennifer Dy, Geng Yuan, Xue Lin, Gaowen Liu, Stratis Ioannidis, and Yanzhi Wang
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
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  4. NeurIPS
    Palette: A Modular, Controllable, and Efficient Framework for On-demand Authorized Safety Alignment Relaxation in LLMs
    Qitao Tan, Xiaoying Song, Arman Akbari, Arash Akbari, Yanzhi Wang, Xiaoming Zhai, Lingzi Hong, Zhen Xiang, Jin Lu, and Geng Yuan
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
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  5. ICLR
    CircuitSense: A Hierarchical Circuit System Benchmark Bridging Visual Comprehension and Symbolic Reasoning in Engineering Design Process
    Arman Akbari, Jian Gao, Yifei Zou, Mei Yang, Jinru Duan, Dmitrii Torbunov, Yanzhi Wang, Yihui Ren, and Xuan Zhang
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
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  6. DAC
    HoloCode: Hybrid Optical-Electronic Edge Encoding for Privacy-Preserving Cloud Training
    Ruofan Xing, Arman Akbari, Weikai Lin, Adith Boloor, Alexander McNeil, Michael Moebius, Yongmin Liu, Yuhao Zhu, and Xuan Zhang
    In ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026
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  7. ICANN
    VOTE: Vision-Language-Action Optimization with Trajectory Ensemble Voting
    Juyi Lin, Amir Taherin, Arash Akbari, Arman Akbari, Lei Lu, Guangyu Chen, Taskin Padir, Xiaomeng Yang, Weiwei Chen, Yiqian Li, Xue Lin, David Kaeli, Pu Zhao, and Yanzhi Wang
    In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2026
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