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20202025
most citedA Tale of Tails: Model Collapse as a Change of Scaling Laws

39 citations · 61 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.LG2025

Don't Waste Mistakes: Leveraging Negative RL-Groups via Confidence Reweighting

Yunzhen Feng, Parag Jain, Anthony Hartshorn +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard recipe for improving large language models (LLMs) on reasoning tasks, with Group Relative Policy Optimiz…

cs.LG2025

What Characterizes Effective Reasoning? Revisiting Length, Review, and Structure of CoT

Yunzhen Feng, Julia Kempe, Cheng Zhang +2

Large reasoning models (LRMs) spend substantial test-time compute on long chain-of-thought (CoT) traces, but what *characterizes* an effective CoT remains unclear. While prior work…

cs.LG2025

PILAF: Optimal Human Preference Sampling for Reward Modeling

Yunzhen Feng, Ariel Kwiatkowski, Kunhao Zheng +2

As large language models increasingly drive real-world applications, aligning them with human values becomes paramount. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has emerge…

cs.LG2025

Spend Wisely: Maximizing Post-Training Gains in Iterative Synthetic Data Bootstrapping

Pu Yang, Yunzhen Feng, Ziyuan Chen +2

Modern foundation models often undergo iterative ``bootstrapping'' in their post-training phase: a model generates synthetic data, an external verifier filters out low-quality samp…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Strong Model Collapse

Elvis Dohmatob, Yunzhen Feng, Arjun Subramonian +1

Within the scaling laws paradigm, which underpins the training of large neural networks like ChatGPT and Llama, we consider a supervised regression setting and establish the exista…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

Beyond Model Collapse: Scaling Up with Synthesized Data Requires Verification

Yunzhen Feng, Elvis Dohmatob, Pu Yang +2

Large Language Models (LLM) are increasingly trained on data generated by other LLM, either because generated text and images become part of the pre-training corpus, or because syn…

cs.LG2024

Attacking Bayes: On the Adversarial Robustness of Bayesian Neural Networks

Yunzhen Feng, Tim G. J. Rudner, Nikolaos Tsilivis +1

Adversarial examples have been shown to cause neural networks to fail on a wide range of vision and language tasks, but recent work has claimed that Bayesian neural networks (BNNs)…

cs.LG2024

Do Efficient Transformers Really Save Computation?

Kai Yang, Jan Ackermann, Zhenyu He +6

As transformer-based language models are trained on increasingly large datasets and with vast numbers of parameters, finding more efficient alternatives to the standard Transformer…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Model Collapse Demystified: The Case of Regression

Elvis Dohmatob, Yunzhen Feng, Julia Kempe

In the era of proliferation of large language and image generation models, the phenomenon of "model collapse" refers to the situation whereby as a model is trained recursively on d…

cs.LG2024★ 39 cited

A Tale of Tails: Model Collapse as a Change of Scaling Laws

Elvis Dohmatob, Yunzhen Feng, Pu Yang +2

As AI model size grows, neural scaling laws have become a crucial tool to predict the improvements of large models when increasing capacity and the size of original (human or natur…

cs.LG2023

Embarassingly Simple Dataset Distillation

Yunzhen Feng, Ramakrishna Vedantam, Julia Kempe

Dataset distillation extracts a small set of synthetic training samples from a large dataset with the goal of achieving competitive performance on test data when trained on this sa…

cs.LG2020★ 6 cited

Transferred Discrepancy: Quantifying the Difference Between Representations

Yunzhen Feng, Runtian Zhai, Di He +2

Understanding what information neural networks capture is an essential problem in deep learning, and studying whether different models capture similar features is an initial step t…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Enhancing Certified Robustness via Smoothed Weighted Ensembling

Chizhou Liu, Yunzhen Feng, Ranran Wang +1

Randomized smoothing has achieved state-of-the-art certified robustness against -norm adversarial attacks. However, it is not wholly resolved on how to find the optimal base c…