publications

2026

1. Preprint

   Self-Adapting Group of Experts for Multi-Agent Reasoning

   Mohammad Atif Quamar , Nurbek Tastan , Karthik Nandakumar , and Junpei Komiyama

   arXiv preprint, 2026

   Project Paper Code Bib

   @misc{quamar2026selfadaptinggroupexpertsmultiagent,
     title = {Self-Adapting Group of Experts for Multi-Agent Reasoning},
     author = {Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Tastan, Nurbek and Nandakumar, Karthik and Komiyama, Junpei},
     year = {2026},
     eprint = {2609.35412},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.AI},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35412},
   }

2. NeurIPS 2026

   Reliable Chain-of-Thought via Prefix Consistency

   Naoto Iwase , Yuki Ichihara , Mohammad Atif Quamar , and Junpei Komiyama

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026

   Project Paper Code Bib

   @misc{iwase2026reliablechainofthoughtprefixconsistency,
     title = {Reliable Chain-of-Thought via Prefix Consistency},
     author = {Iwase, Naoto and Ichihara, Yuki and Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Komiyama, Junpei},
     year = {2026},
     eprint = {2605.07654},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {stat.ML},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07654},
   }

3. ICML-W 2026

   STARS: Synchronous Token Alignment for Robust Supervision in Large Language Models

   Mohammad Atif Quamar^* , Mohammad Areeb^* , Mikhail Kuznetsov , Muslum Ozgur Ozmen , and Z. Berkay Celik

   ICML 2026 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling

   Paper Code Bib

   @inproceedings{quamar2026stars,
     title = {{STARS}: Synchronous Token Alignment for Robust Supervision in Large Language Models},
     author = {Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Areeb, Mohammad and Kuznetsov, Mikhail and Ozmen, Muslum Ozgur and Celik, Z. Berkay},
     booktitle = {ICML 2026 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference {\&} Generative Modeling},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=M3BAEZGcnu},
   }

4. Preprint

   Privileged Solutions or Context-Induced Teacher Behavior? Dissecting On-Policy Self-Distillation

   Yuki Ichihara , Naoto Iwase , Mohammad Atif Quamar , and Junpei Komiyama

   arXiv preprint, 2026

   Paper Code Bib

   @misc{ichihara2026privilegedsolutionscontextinducedteacher,
     title = {Privileged Solutions or Context-Induced Teacher Behavior? Dissecting On-Policy Self-Distillation},
     author = {Ichihara, Yuki and Iwase, Naoto and Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Komiyama, Junpei},
     year = {2026},
     eprint = {2608.09228},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09228},
   }

5. Preprint

   Prefix-Denoising Consistency: Test-Time Verification for Diffusion Language Models

   Yuki Ichihara , Naoto Iwase , Mohammad Atif Quamar , and Junpei Komiyama

   arXiv preprint, 2026

   Paper Code Bib

   @misc{ichihara2026prefixdenoisingconsistencytesttimeverification,
     title = {Prefix-Denoising Consistency: Test-Time Verification for Diffusion Language Models},
     author = {Ichihara, Yuki and Iwase, Naoto and Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Komiyama, Junpei},
     year = {2026},
     eprint = {2608.25311},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25311},
   }

6. Preprint

   Learning Modal-Mixed Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Latent Embeddings

   Yifei Shao , Kun Zhou , Ziming Xu , Mohammad Atif Quamar , Shibo Hao , Zhen Wang , Zhiting Hu , and Biwei Huang

   arXiv preprint, 2026

   Paper Bib

   @misc{shao2026learningmodalmixedchainofthoughtreasoning,
     title = {Learning Modal-Mixed Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Latent Embeddings},
     author = {Shao, Yifei and Zhou, Kun and Xu, Ziming and Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Hao, Shibo and Wang, Zhen and Hu, Zhiting and Huang, Biwei},
     year = {2026},
     eprint = {2602.00574},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.AI},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00574},
   }

2025

1. Preprint

   Adaptive Blockwise Search: Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models

   Mohammad Atif Quamar^* , Mohammad Areeb^* , Nishant Sharma , Ananth Shreekumar , Jonathan Rosenthal , Muslum Ozgur Ozmen , Mikhail Kuznetsov , and Z. Berkay Celik

   arXiv preprint, 2025

   Paper Code Bib

   @misc{quamar2025adaptiveblockwisesearchinferencetime,
     title = {Adaptive Blockwise Search: Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models},
     author = {Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Areeb, Mohammad and Sharma, Nishant and Shreekumar, Ananth and Rosenthal, Jonathan and Ozmen, Muslum Ozgur and Kuznetsov, Mikhail and Celik, Z. Berkay},
     year = {2025},
     eprint = {2510.23334},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CL},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23334},
   }

2. NeurIPS-W 2025

   Logit–Entropy Adaptive Stopping Heuristic for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

   Mohammad Atif Quamar and Mohammad Areeb

   NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning

   Paper OpenReview Bib

   @inproceedings{quamar2025logitentropy,
     title = {Logit{\textendash}Entropy Adaptive Stopping Heuristic for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning},
     author = {Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Areeb, Mohammad},
     booktitle = {NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=5UTXI0iNn5},
   }

3. NeurIPS-W 2025

   Decoding Histone Modification Signatures of Non-Coding RNAs via Foundation Models

   Nishant Sharma , Mohammad Atif Quamar , and Pengtao Xie

   NeurIPS 2025 2nd Workshop on Multi-modal Foundation Models and Large Language Models for Life Sciences

   OpenReview Bib

   @inproceedings{sharma2025decoding,
     title = {Decoding Histone Modification Signatures of Non-Coding {RNA}s via Foundation Models},
     author = {Sharma, Nishant and Quamar, Mohammad Atif and Xie, Pengtao},
     booktitle = {NeurIPS 2025 2nd Workshop on Multi-modal Foundation Models and Large Language Models for Life Sciences},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=SIVkGvPDuM},
   }