Kong, L., Subramanian, I., Adler, M., Alistarh, D., Gutfreund, D., & Shavit, N. N. (2026, May). The Sparsity Whisperer. The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026). https://openreview.net/forum?id=SkASoryYLq
Kong, L.*, Subramanian, I.*, Shavit, Y., Adler, M., Alistarh, D., & Shavit, N. N. (2026). Expand Neurons, Not Parameters. The 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026). https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04500
Liu, G., Shavit, N. N., & Kong, L. (2026, July). Characterizing Plastic Regions in Neural Networks [Poster presentation]. The Workshop on Continual Adaptation at Scale: Towards Sustainable AI at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026 Workshop CATS), Seoul, South Korea.
Kong, L., Flynn, M., Peng, M., Shavit, N. N., Kurtz, M., & Marques, A. (2026, May). An Interpretable Latency Model for Speculative Decoding in LLM Serving. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15051
Kong, L., Ning, A., Adler, M., & Shavit, N. N. (2026). Negative Pre-activations Differentiate Syntax. The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026). https://openreview.net/forum?id=RzcCrU0tXP
Kong, L., Adler, M., & Shavit, N. N. (2026, April). The Feature-Space Alignment Hypothesis for Neural Network Sparsity [Poster presentation]. The 2nd Workshop on Scientific Methods for Understanding Deep Learning at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026 Workshop Sci4DL), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Kong, L.*, Ning, A.*, & Shavit, N. N. (2025, July). Input differentiation via negative computation [Poster presentation]. The 3rd Workshop on High-dimensional Learning Dynamics at the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025 Workshop HiLD), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Tumma, N.*, Kong, L.*†, Sawmya, S., Wang, T. T., & Shavit, N. N.† (2024). A connectomics-driven analysis reveals novel characterization of border regions in mouse visual cortex. Neural Networks, 190, 107688 (Neural Netw). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2025.107688
Sawmya, S.*, Kong, L.*, Markov, I., Alistarh, D., & Shavit, N. N. (2025). Wasserstein Distances, Neuronal Entanglement, and Sparsity. The 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025, Spotlight Presentation). https://openreview.net/pdf?id=cnKhHxN3xj
Kong, L.*, Durresi, H.*, Mi, L., & Shavit, N. N. (2025, March). Presynaptic input synchrony at scale [Poster presentation]. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE 2025), Montreal, QC, Canada.
Sawmya, S.*, Kong, L.*, Markov, I., Alistarh, D., & Shavit, N. N. (2024, August). Neuronal Disentanglement and Sparse Expansion [Poster presentation]. New England Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop Series (NEMI 2024), Boston, MA, United States.
Hobson, B. D., Kong, L., Angelo, M. F., Lieberman, O. J., Mosharov, E. V., Herzog, E., Sulzer, D., & Sims, P. A. (2022). Subcellular and regional localization of mRNA translation in midbrain dopamine neurons. Cell Reports, 38(2) (Cell Rep). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110208
Hobson, B. D., Kong, L., Angelo, M. F., Lieberman, O. J., Mosharov, E. V., Herzog, E., Sulzer, D., & Sims, P. A. (2021, October). Subcellular and regional localization of mRNA translation in midbrain dopamine neurons [Poster presentation]. 2021 Columbia University Undergraduate Research Symposium, New York, NY, United States.
Hobson, B. D., Kong, L., Hartwick, E. W., Gonzalez, R. L., Jr., & Sims, P. A. (2020, October). Elongation inhibitors do not prevent the release of puromycylated nascent polypeptide chains from ribosomes [Poster presentation]. 2020 Columbia University Undergraduate Research Symposium, New York, NY, United States.
Hobson, B. D., Kong, L., Hartwick, E. W., Gonzalez, R. L., Jr., & Sims, P. A. (2020). Elongation inhibitors do not prevent the release of puromycylated nascent polypeptide chains from ribosomes. eLife 9, e60048 (eLife). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60048
Kong, L., Hobson, B. D., & Sims, P. A. (2019, October). Toward visualization of active translation in dopaminergic neurons [Poster presentation]. 2019 Columbia University Undergraduate Research Symposium, New York, NY, United States.
Kong, L.*, Murata, M. M.*, & Digman, M. A. (2018). Absence of REV3L promotes p53-regulated cancer cell metabolism in cisplatin-treated lung carcinoma cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 496(1), 199-204 (BBRC). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.01.026
Kong, L.*, Murata, M. M.*, & Digman, M. A. (2017, October). Fighting the (chemotherapeutic) resistance: restoring p53 function and silencing REV3L suppresses the cancerous metabolic phenotype in cisplatin treated human non-small lung carcinoma cells [Poster presentation]. 2nd World Congress on Cancer Research and Therapy (WCCRT 2017), San Diego, CA, United States.
Talk at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Talk at Red Hat, Boston, MA, USA