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
- 2026Preprint
Does Quantisation Hurt Low-Resource Languages More? Evidence from Urdu and Sindhi
Omar Farooq, Bilal Ahmed, Hira Yousaf · arXiv preprint
- 2026Paper
Fair Scheduling of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Jobs on Shared GPU Clusters
Omar Farooq, Daniyal Mirza, Bilal Ahmed · MLSys 2026