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20182025
most citedJump-Start Reinforcement Learning

17 citations · 74 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.LG2025

dUltra: Ultra-Fast Diffusion Language Models via Reinforcement Learning

Shirui Chen, Jiantao Jiao, Lillian J. Ratliff +1

Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) offer the potential for parallel token generation, but most open-source MDLMs decode fewer than 5 tokens per model forward pass even with s…

cs.CL2024

Efficient Prompt Caching via Embedding Similarity

Hanlin Zhu, Banghua Zhu, Jiantao Jiao

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved huge success in numerous natural language process (NLP) tasks. However, it faces the challenge of significant resource consumption during…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

Generative AI Security: Challenges and Countermeasures

Banghua Zhu, Norman Mu, Jiantao Jiao +1

Generative AI's expanding footprint across numerous industries has led to both excitement and increased scrutiny. This paper delves into the unique security challenges posed by Gen…

cs.LG2024

Iterative Data Smoothing: Mitigating Reward Overfitting and Overoptimization in RLHF

Banghua Zhu, Michael I. Jordan, Jiantao Jiao

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a pivotal technique that aligns language models closely with human-centric values. The initial phase of RLHF involves learning…

cs.LG2023

Towards Optimal Statistical Watermarking

Baihe Huang, Hanlin Zhu, Banghua Zhu +4

We study statistical watermarking by formulating it as a hypothesis testing problem, a general framework which subsumes all previous statistical watermarking methods. Key to our fo…

cs.RO2023

Guided Online Distillation: Promoting Safe Reinforcement Learning by Offline Demonstration

Jinning Li, Xinyi Liu, Banghua Zhu +4

Safe Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to find a policy that achieves high rewards while satisfying cost constraints. When learning from scratch, safe RL agents tend to be overly co…