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Sai Aparna Aketi

Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Early career · publishing since 2018
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in DataStochastic Gradient Optimization TechniquesDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningAge of Information OptimizationAnomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Publications

23

Citations

208

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

9

Publishing since 2018

Research summary
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Sai Aparna Aketi's research focuses on making distributed and decentralized machine learning more efficient and robust when data is spread unevenly across many devices or nodes (so-called 'non-IID' or heterogeneous data). Work spans techniques for reducing communication and computation costs during training, improving privacy (e.g., differentially private training for large language models), and handling unbalanced or changing data distributions in decentralized networks. Much of this research appears as preprints and conference/journal papers on algorithms for training neural networks across multiple machines without relying on a central server.

Decentralized and distributed deep learningHandling heterogeneous (non-IID) dataCommunication- and energy-efficient trainingPrivacy-preserving machine learning (differential privacy)Efficient neural network training (pruning, low precision, spiking networks)

Publication output has grown from occasional papers before 2020 to a steadier pace of about 3 per year over the last five years, with a peak around 2023-2024.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.0/year recently
172018: 1 publication18192020: 3 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 5 publications5232024: 5 publications5242025: 1 publication252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×15
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience×1
  • IEEE Access×1
  • Neural Networks×1
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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