Systems for Machine Learning Lab

Frontier techniques on non-frontier hardware.

  • Efficient training
  • Quantisation and serving
  • Scheduling on shared clusters
  • Energy-aware ML

Lab lead

Dr. Omar Farooq

Associate Professor · Head of the Systems for ML Lab

Most organisations in the region train and serve models on a handful of GPUs, often shared. The lab develops methods — memory-efficient fine-tuning, quantisation-aware serving, scheduling for shared clusters — that make frontier techniques practical at that scale, and operates the institute’s compute cluster as a living testbed.

Publications

  1. 2026
    Preprint

    Does Quantisation Hurt Low-Resource Languages More? Evidence from Urdu and Sindhi

    Omar Farooq, Bilal Ahmed, Hira Yousaf · arXiv preprint

  2. 2026
    Paper

    Fair Scheduling of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Jobs on Shared GPU Clusters

    Omar Farooq, Daniyal Mirza, Bilal Ahmed · MLSys 2026