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Publications (13)

cs.LG2025

EnsemW2S: Enhancing Weak-to-Strong Generalization with Large Language Model Ensembles

Aakriti Agrawal, Mucong Ding, Zora Che +6

With Large Language Models (LLMs) rapidly approaching and potentially surpassing human-level performance, it has become imperative to develop approaches capable of effectively supe…

cs.AI2025

Effort-aware Fairness: Incorporating a Philosophy-informed, Human-centered Notion of Effort into Algorithmic Fairness Metrics

Tin Trung Nguyen, Jiannan Xu, Zora Che +6

Although popularized AI fairness metrics, e.g., demographic parity, have uncovered bias in AI-assisted decision-making outcomes, they do not consider how much effort one has spent…

cs.LG2025

PoisonedParrot: Subtle Data Poisoning Attacks to Elicit Copyright-Infringing Content from Large Language Models

Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess, Pankayaraj Pathmanathan, Yigitcan Kaya +5

As the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) continue to expand, their usage has become increasingly prevalent. However, as reflected in numerous ongoing lawsuits regarding…

cs.LG2025

EnsemW2S: Enhancing Weak-to-Strong Generalization with Large Language Model Ensembles

Aakriti Agrawal, Mucong Ding, Zora Che +6

With Large Language Models (LLMs) rapidly approaching and potentially surpassing human-level performance, it has become imperative to develop approaches capable of effectively supe…

cs.LG2024

SAIL: Self-Improving Efficient Online Alignment of Large Language Models

Mucong Ding, Souradip Chakraborty, Vibhu Agrawal +5

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a key method for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, current offline alignment approaches li…

cs.LG2025

TutorBench: A Benchmark To Assess Tutoring Capabilities Of Large Language Models

Rakshith S Srinivasa, Zora Che, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang +11

As students increasingly adopt large language models (LLMs) as learning aids, it is crucial to build models that are adept at handling the nuances of tutoring: they need to identif…

cs.CR2025

Model Tampering Attacks Enable More Rigorous Evaluations of LLM Capabilities

Zora Che, Stephen Casper, Robert Kirk +12

Evaluations of large language model (LLM) risks and capabilities are increasingly being incorporated into AI risk management and governance frameworks. Currently, most risk evaluat…

cs.LG2023

Transferring Fairness under Distribution Shifts via Fair Consistency Regularization

Bang An, Zora Che, Mucong Ding +1

The increasing reliance on ML models in high-stakes tasks has raised a major concern on fairness violations. Although there has been a surge of work that improves algorithmic fairn…

cs.GT2026

Auction-Based Regulation for Artificial Intelligence

Marco Bornstein, Zora Che, Suhas Julapalli +3

In an era of "moving fast and breaking things", regulators have moved slowly to pick up the safety, bias, and legal debris left in the wake of broken Artificial Intelligence (AI) d…

cs.LG2025

AegisLLM: Scaling Agentic Systems for Self-Reflective Defense in LLM Security

Zikui Cai, Shayan Shabihi, Bang An +5

We introduce AegisLLM, a cooperative multi-agent defense against adversarial attacks and information leakage. In AegisLLM, a structured workflow of autonomous agents - orchestrator…

cs.LG2025

Can Watermarking Large Language Models Prevent Copyrighted Text Generation and Hide Training Data?

Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess, Zora Che, Bang An +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating diverse and contextually rich text. However, concerns regarding copyright infringement arise as…

cs.CR2026

An Independent Safety Evaluation of Kimi K2.5

Zheng-Xin Yong, Parv Mahajan, Andy Wang +12

Kimi K2.5 is an open-weight LLM that rivals closed models across coding, multimodal, and agentic benchmarks, but was released without an accompanying safety evaluation. In this wor…

cs.CR2025

Best Practices for Biorisk Evaluations on Open-Weight Bio-Foundation Models

Boyi Wei, Zora Che, Nathaniel Li +10

Open-weight bio-foundation models present a dual-use dilemma. While holding great promise for accelerating scientific research and drug development, they could also enable bad acto…