Publications

2026

  1. ICML
    ✨ STAR-KV: Low-Rank KV Cache Compression via Soft Thresholding for Adaptive Rank Control
    Priyansh Bhatnagar*, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi*, S. Yang, and 3 more authors
    In Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Jul 2026
    ✨ Spotlight paper.
    * Equal contribution.

2025

  1. JSSC
    HyAtt: A Hybrid Attention Accelerator for Transformers with Analog In-memory Computing
    Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, and Mingu Kang
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Sep 2025
  2. JETCAS
    End-to-end Acceleration of Generative Models with Runtime Regularized KV Cache Management
    Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, and Mingu Kang
    IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Jun 2025
  3. ICCAD
    FeNOMS: Enhancing Open Modification Spectral Library Search with In-Storage Processing of Ferroelectric NAND Flash
    S. Pinge, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, and  others
    In International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Oct 2025

2024

  1. ESSERC
    An Analog and Digital Hybrid Attention Accelerator for Transformers with Charge-based In-memory Computing
    Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, D. S. Dodla, and Mingu Kang
    In IEEE 50th European Solid State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC), Sep 2024
  2. ISLPED
    Efficient Transformer Accelerator via Reconfiguration for Encoder and Decoder Dual Modes with Sparsity-Aware Data Mapping
    C. E. Song*, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi*, T. Rosing, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Aug 2024
    Equal contribution.
  3. JXCDC
    SpecPCM: A Low-power PCM-based In-Memory Computing Accelerator for Full-stack Mass Spectrometry Analysis
    K. Fan, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, and  others
    IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits, Nov 2024

2022

  1. MICRO
    Sparse Attention Acceleration with Synergistic In-memory Pruning and On-chip Recomputation
    A. Yazdanbakhsh*, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi*, Z. Li*, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Oct 2022
    * Equal contribution.