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DESCRIPTION:Dallas IEEE Communications and Vehicular Society member\,\n\nPl
 ease join us for our October 2026 CVT meeting.\n\nWe will again meet on th
 e University of Texas at Dallas campus in the SPN.1 building.\nOur meeting
  will be from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM\, and lunch will be available starting a
 round 11:30 AM.\n\nLunch: We continue to provide a lunch option for our me
 etings.\n\nPrepay via the IEEE website\,\nIEEE Members $10.00\nIEEE Life M
 embers $5.00\nNon-IEEE Members $15.00\nFulltime UTD ECE students: $2.00 (T
 he first 5 pre-registered will be free)\n\nPay in person:\nIEEE Members $1
 5.00\nIEEE Life Members $10.00\nNon-IEEE Members $20.00\n\nOctober 20 meet
 ing\, UT Dallas SPN.1\, registration opens at 11:30 AM\, talk begins at 12
 :00 PM\n\nTitle: &quot;FedLoRA-C: Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning
  of Large Language Models via Selective Layer Compression&quot;\nSpeaker: Lokan
 atha Reddy Gandikota\, Distinguished Engineer at Verizon\, Dallas\, TX.\n\
 nDate:  October 20\, 2026\nLocation: UTD Synergy Park North Building\; 300
 0 Waterview\, Richardson\, TX\nDirections: NE Corner Synergy Park Blvd and
  Steward Dr.\nLunch Cost: see below.\n\nAbstract:\nFine-tuning large langu
 age models across distributed institutions — hospitals\, law firms\, fin
 ancial organizations — is often blocked by two constraints: sensitive da
 ta cannot be centralized\, and the communication cost of coordinating mode
 l updates becomes prohibitive at scale. This talk presents FedLoRA-C\, a c
 ommunication-efficient framework for federated fine-tuning of LLMs. By com
 bining Low-Rank Adaptation with a novel Selective Layer Compression strate
 gy that identifies and prioritizes the transformer layers most critical to
  task adaptation\, FedLoRA-C reduces per-round communication cost by 67.3%
  while achieving accuracy within 1.4% of centralized fine-tuning. The talk
  covers the core method\, results across four NLP benchmarks including a h
 ealthcare question-answering task\, and practical implications for deployi
 ng LLM adaptation in privacy-sensitive\, bandwidth-constrained settings. T
 he work received the Best Industrial Paper Award at IEEE AIS 2026.\n\nPre-
 registered and paid via the IEEE website:\nIEEE Members $10.00\nIEEE Life 
 Members $5.00\nNon-IEEE Members $15.00\nUTD ECE students: $2.00\n\nPay in 
 person and pre-registered but not yet paid:\nIEEE Members $15.00\nIEEE Lif
 e Members $10.00\nNon-IEEE Members $20.00\n\nAnyone not pre-registered wil
 l be charged the ‘Guest’ rate.\n\nThere is No charge for &#39;No Lunch\, j
 ust attending the talk&#39;.\n\nThanks in advance\, and all the best.\n\nDivya
  K.\n\nAnyone without pre-registration for lunch will be asked to wait unt
 il all pre-registered guests have had a chance to go through the buffet li
 ne.\n\nDallas IEEE CVT Board members&#39; emails:\n\nlarryjhorner@gmail.com\na
 ndrewsilver@ieee.org\njimgunn@ieee.org\nshmuel.hovav@gmail.com\neb0549@att
 .com\ndivya.khanure@ieee.org\ned.hightower@iotandbeyond.com\ndinesh@utdall
 as.edu\n\nSpeaker(s): Lokanatha\, \n\nAgenda: \nFood/Lunch:\nLunch is avai
 lable only to those who pre-register prior to the meeting. Sorry\, we have
  to pre-order and consider the costs of meals.\n\nCost for lunch:\n\nLevel
  of Membership  Prepaid Pay at Event\nUTD student with ID $2.00 $2.00\nIEE
 E Member $10.00 $15.00\nIEEE Senior Member $10.00 $15.00\nIEEE Life Member
  $5.00 $10.00\nNon-member $15.00 $20.00\n\nPlease look for your specific M
 ember type in the Payment portion of the Registration process (Life\, Seni
 or\, Regular Member\, etc.).\n\n(First 5 Students who have registered in v
 Tools as recorded within vTools date/time stamp on the registration will b
 e given their $2 back at the event\, provided they attend. Also\, all stud
 ents must show their UT Dallas ID at the desk on the day of the meetings.)
 \n\nRoom: 2.220\, Bldg: SPN 1\, 3000 Waterview Pkwy\, Richardson\, Texas\,
  United States\, 75080
LOCATION:Room: 2.220\, Bldg: SPN 1\, 3000 Waterview Pkwy\, Richardson\, Tex
 as\, United States\, 75080
ORGANIZER:divya.khanure@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:17
SUMMARY:FedLoRA-C by Lokanatha Reddy Gandikota
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X-ALT-DESC:Description: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Dallas IEEE Communicatio
 ns and Vehicular Society member\,&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Please join us
  for our October 2026 CVT meeting.&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;We wil
 l again meet on the University of Texas at Dallas campus in the SPN.1 buil
 ding.&lt;br&gt;Our meeting will be from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM\, and lunch will be 
 available starting around 11:30 AM.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Lunch: We co
 ntinue to provide a lunch option for our meetings.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNorma
 l&quot;&gt;Prepay via the IEEE website\,&lt;br&gt;IEEE Members $10.00&lt;br&gt;IEEE Life Membe
 rs $5.00&lt;br&gt;Non-IEEE Members $15.00&lt;br&gt;Fulltime UTD ECE students: $2.00 (T
 he first 5 pre-registered will be free)&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Pay in p
 erson:&lt;br&gt;IEEE Members $15.00&lt;br&gt;IEEE Life Members $10.00&lt;br&gt;Non-IEEE Memb
 ers $20.00&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 20 meeting\, UT Dalla
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 s-serif\; color: #222222\; background: white\;&quot;&gt;Title:&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\
 ;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\; &quot;FedLoRA-C: Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-
 Tuning of Large Language Models via Selective Layer Compression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st
 rong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;\,sans-serif\; color: #222222\; back
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 \; background: white\;&quot;&gt;Speaker: &amp;nbsp\;Lokanatha Reddy Gandikota&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/
 strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\,&lt;/strong&gt; Distinguished Engineer at Verizon\, Dall
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 son\, TX&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;\,sans-serif\;
  background: white\;&quot;&gt;Directions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: 
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 ult&quot;&gt;Fine-tuning large language models across distributed institutions &amp;md
 ash\; hospitals\, law firms\, financial organizations &amp;mdash\; is often bl
 ocked by two constraints: sensitive data cannot be centralized\, and the c
 ommunication cost of coordinating model updates becomes prohibitive at sca
 le. This talk presents FedLoRA-C\, a communication-efficient framework for
  federated fine-tuning of LLMs. By combining Low-Rank Adaptation with a no
 vel Selective Layer Compression strategy that identifies and prioritizes t
 he transformer layers most critical to task adaptation\, FedLoRA-C reduces
  per-round communication cost by 67.3% while achieving accuracy within 1.4
 % of centralized fine-tuning. The talk covers the core method\, results ac
 ross four NLP benchmarks including a healthcare question-answering task\, 
 and practical implications for deploying LLM adaptation in privacy-sensiti
 ve\, bandwidth-constrained settings. The work received the Best Industrial
  Paper Award at IEEE AIS 2026.&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p
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