MAX HARTMAN

Research

Publications

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2026

ICML

Skip-It? Theoretical Conditions for Layer Skipping in Vision–Language Models

Max Hartman, Vidhata Jayaraman, Moulik Choraria, Akhil Bhimaraju, Lav R. Varshney — Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning

openreview
ACC

Federated Nonlinear System Identification

Omkar Tupe, Max Hartman, Lav R. Varshney, Saurav Prakash — 2026 American Control Conference · to appear

JSTSP

SwitchCIT: Switching for Continual Instruction Tuning

Xinbo Wu, Max Hartman, Vidhata Arjun Jayaraman, Lav R. Varshney — IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing · to appear

2025

ICCV WS

Unmasking the Functionality of Early Layers in VLMs

Max Hartman, Vidhata Jayaraman, Moulik Choraria, Akhil Bhimaraju, Lav R. Varshney — ICCV 2025 Workshop on Explainable Computer Vision: Quo Vadis?

openreview
JSAIT

Energy-Aware Routing to Large Reasoning Models

Austin R. Ellis-Mohr, Max Hartman, Lav R. Varshney — IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Information Theory · to appear

arXiv

SparseJEPA: Sparse Representation Learning of Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures

Max Hartman, Lav Varshney

arxiv