Publications

Mostly LLM inference efficiency: the model, its memory, the serving policy, and the workload. Some resource-constrained and applied ML, too. (bold = me; * = equal contribution)

2026

Epiphany-Aware KV Cache Eviction Without the Attention Matrix (EpiKV)
Steven Kolawole, Virginia Smith
preprint, 2026
arXiv
What Survives When You Compress a Recursive Reasoner for the Edge? (EdgeTRM)
Pearse Jim*, Steven Kolawole*, Opegbemi M. Busoye, Glory Bagai, Virginia Smith
preprint, 2026
arXiv
From Scarcity to Efficiency: Investigating the Effects of Data Augmentation on African Machine Translation
Mardiyyah Oduwole, Oluwatosin Olajide, Jamiu Suleiman, Faith Hunja, Busayo Awobade, Fatimo Adebanjo, Comfort Akanni, Chinonyelum Igwe, Peace Ododo, Promise Omoigui, Abraham Owodunni, Steven Kolawole
LM4UC @ AAAI 2026 · Springer CCIS
arXiv

2025

ParallelPrompt: Extracting Parallelism from Large Language Model Queries
Steven Kolawole, Keshav Santhanam, Virginia Smith, Pratiksha Thaker
NeurIPS 2025, Datasets & Benchmarks Track
OpenReview arXiv Code Dataset
Semantic Agreement Enables Efficient Open-Ended LLM Cascades
Duncan Soiffer, Steven Kolawole, Virginia Smith
EMNLP 2025, Industry Track
Anthology arXiv
Agreement-Based Cascading for Efficient Inference (ABC)
Steven Kolawole*, Don Dennis*, Ameet Talwalkar, Virginia Smith
TMLR, 2025
OpenReview arXiv Code
PrivacyBench: Privacy Isn't Free in Hybrid Privacy-Preserving Vision Systems
Nnaemeka Obiefuna, Samuel Oyeneye*, Similoluwa Odunaiya*, Iremide Oyelaja*, Steven Kolawole
ES-FoMo @ ICML 2025
OpenReview arXiv Code

2024

Everybody Prune Now: Structured Pruning of LLMs with only Forward Passes (Bonsai)
Steven Kolawole*, Lucio Dery*, Jean-François Kagy, Virginia Smith, Graham Neubig, Ameet Talwalkar
arXiv, 2024
arXiv Code
What Happens When Small Is Made Smaller? Exploring the Impact of Compression on Small Data Pretrained Language Models
Busayo Awobade*, Mardiyyah Oduwole*, Steven Kolawole
AfricaNLP @ ICLR 2024
arXiv

2023

Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages
Colin Leong, Herumb Shandilya, Bonaventure Dossou, Atnafu Tonja, Joel Mathew, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Oreen Yousuf, Zainab Akinjobi, Chris Emezue, Shamsudeen Muhammad, Steven Kolawole, Younwoo Choi, Tosin Adewumi
AfricaNLP @ ICLR 2023
arXiv
Vision Transformers for Mobile Applications: A Short Survey
Nahid Alam*, Steven Kolawole*, Simardeep Sethi*, Nishant Bansali, Karina Nguyen
arXiv, 2023
arXiv

2022

Sign-to-Speech Model for Sign Language Understanding: A Case Study of Nigerian Sign Language
Steven Kolawole, Opeyemi Osakuade, Nayan Saxena, Babatunde Kazeem Olorisade
IJCAI 2022, AI for Social Good Track
Proceedings arXiv Code Media

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