Zilinghan Li

Machine Learning Engineer

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Hello! I am a Machine Learning Engineer at the Data Science Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, working under Ravi Madduri. I am interested in machine learning and deep learning for biomedicine and science, federated learning, and scaling machine learning workflow on High-Performance Computing environments. I receivd my Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I worked with Prof. Volodymyr Kindratenko. I also previously interned at Amazon Web Services.

science RESEARCH link

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AI for Science and Biomedicine: This is the field that I am putting most of my effort on learning currently. My main interests lie in the field of developing state-of-the-art foundation models for different biomedicine problems, and building multi-modal bio AI models. I am also actively involved in the AuroraGPT project, which aims to developing LLM for general science.
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Federated Learning: This is the field that I spent most of my time in the past few years, and I techinically lead the development of Argonne's federated learning framework, Advanced Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning, APPFL. As our framework is comprehensive, I actually worked on various aspects of federated learning myself, but I am mostly interested in building the infrastructure to support the federated training of foundation models.
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Scalable Learning: My company, Argonne, is home of several supercomputers (Polaris, Sophia, Aurora, etc.), so I am also interested in scaling deep learning workflow on supercomputers to support training and inference of large AI models and speed them up.

engineering PROJECTS link

Check out all of my projects on GitHub.

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APPFL: Advanced Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning framework [Code]
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APPFLx: Federated Learning as a Service [Code]
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FedCompass: Federated Learning with Computing Power Aware Scheduler [Code]
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SciCode: A benchmark that challenges language models to code solutions for scientific problems [Code]

star SELECTED PUBLICATIONS link

Ordered by most recent.

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FedCompass: Efficient Cross-Silo Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Client Devices Using a Computing Power-Aware Scheduler [May 2024]
Zilinghan Li, Pranshu Chaturvedi, Shilan He, Han Chen, Gagandeep Singh, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Eliu A Huerta, Kibaek Kim, Ravi Madduri
ICLR 2024
TLDR | PDF | Website | Code | BibTex
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Appflx: Providing Privacy-Preserving Cross-Silo Federated Learning as a Service [Oct 2023]
Zilinghan Li, Shilan He, Pranshu Chaturvedi, Trung-Hieu Hoang, Minseok Ryu, EA Huerta, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Jordan Fuhrman, Maryellen Giger, Ryan Chard, Kibaek Kim, Ravi Madduri
e-Science 2023
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article ALL PUBLICATIONS link

Ordered by most recent and grouped by topic. Bibtex file available for download here.

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FEDERATED LEARNING
May 2025 FedSpaLLM: Federated Pruning of Large Language Models link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | Preprint | BibTex | NAACL 2025
Dec 2024 Enabling end-to-end secure federated learning in biomedical research on heterogeneous computing environments with APPFLx link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | Website | BibTex | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Nov 2024 Advances in Privacy Preserving Federated Learning to Realize a Truly Learning Healthcare System link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | Slides | Preprint | BibTex | TPS-ISA 2024
Sep 2024 Advances in APPFL: A Comprehensive and Extensible Federated Learning Framework link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | Website | Code | Preprint | BibTex | arXiv preprint
Jul 2024 FedSZ: Leveraging error-bounded lossy compression for federated learning communications link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | BibTex | ICDCS 2024
May 2024 FedCompass: Efficient Cross-Silo Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Client Devices Using a Computing Power-Aware Scheduler link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | Website | Code | BibTex | ICLR 2024
Mar 2024 Secure Federated Learning Across Heterogeneous Cloud and High-Performance Computing Resources-A Case Study on Federated Fine-tuning of LLaMA 2 link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | BibTex | Computing in Science & Engineering
Oct 2023 Appflx: Providing Privacy-Preserving Cross-Silo Federated Learning as a Service link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | Website | BibTex | e-Science 2023
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AI FOR SCIENCE
Dec 2024 Gen-SIS: Generative Self-augmentation Improves Self-supervised Learning link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | Website | Preprint | BibTex | arXiv preprint
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OTHERS
Jun 2023 ViCTer: A semi-supervised video character tracker link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | Code | BibTex | Machine Learning with Applications
Apr 2023 An efficient generative data imputation toolbox with adversarial learning link
TLDR | Authors | BibTex | ICDE 2023
Oct 2022 Activematch: end-to-end semi-supervised active representation learning link
TLDR | PDF | Authors | BibTex | ICIP 2023

co_present PRESENTATIONS link

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Dec 2024 When Federated Learning Meets FABRIC link
Slides | Video | FABRIC Tutorials
Oct 2024 Advances in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning to Realize a Truly Learning Healthcare System link
Slides | TPS-ISA 2024, Washington, D.C.
Oct 2024 Using Globus Compute to Streamline Federated Learning Applications link
Slides | Video | ParslFest 2024, Chicago, IL
Jul 2024 Federated Learning Tutorial: Concepts, Challenges, and Framework link
Slides | Video | SciFM Summer School, Ann Arbor, MI
Oct 2023 APPFLx.Link: Providing Privacy-Preserving Cross-Silo Federated Learning as a Service link
Slides | Video | ParslFest 2023, Chicago, IL