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20192026
most citedAdversarially Robust Distillation

159 citations · 509 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

cs.AI2026

Do Theorem Provers Need Theorem-Proving Agents? mini-Lean-agent: A Coding-Agent Baseline for Lean

Tomas Ortega, Simon Park, Ayush Khaitan +3

General-purpose coding agents use standard shell and file interactions, yet formal theorem-proving agents often rely on specialized, ad-hoc tooling. This makes it difficult to dete…

cs.AI2026

Rethinking On-Policy Self-Distillation for Thinking Models

Simran Kaur, Narutatsu Ri, Yinghui He +2

Self-distillation is a promising recipe for self-improvement in language models. In this setting, a model can serve as its own teacher when given privileged information, such as a…

cs.AI2026

Goedel-Architect: Streamlining Formal Theorem Proving with Blueprint Generation and Refinement

Jui-Hui Chung, Ziyang Cai, Zihao Li +14

We introduce Goedel-Architect, an agentic framework for formal theorem proving in Lean 4 centered on blueprint generation and refinement. A blueprint is a dependency graph of defin…

cs.AI2026

To See the Unseen: on the Generalization Ability of Transformers in Symbolic Reasoning

Nevena Lazić, Liam Fowl, András György +1

We investigate the ability of decoder-only transformer models to perform abstract symbolic reasoning; specifically solving propositional logic reasoning problems given in-context.…

cs.CL2026

Self-Distillation Zero: Self-Revision Turns Binary Rewards into Dense Supervision

Yinghui He, Simran Kaur, Adithya Bhaskar +7

Current post-training methods in verifiable settings fall into two categories. Reinforcement learning (RLVR) relies on binary rewards, which are broadly applicable and powerful, bu…

cs.LG2026

Escaping the Cognitive Well: Efficient Competition Math with Off-the-Shelf Models

Xingyu Dang, Rohit Agarwal, Rodrigo Porto +3

In the past year, custom and unreleased math reasoning models reached gold medal performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Similar performance was then reported…

cs.GR2025

3D Gaussian Splatting with Normal Information for Mesh Extraction and Improved Rendering

Meenakshi Krishnan, Liam Fowl, Ramani Duraiswami

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-qu…

cs.LG2024

Generating Potent Poisons and Backdoors from Scratch with Guided Diffusion

Hossein Souri, Arpit Bansal, Hamid Kazemi +7

Modern neural networks are often trained on massive datasets that are web scraped with minimal human inspection. As a result of this insecure curation pipeline, an adversary can po…

eess.AS2022

Exploring Sequence-to-Sequence Transformer-Transducer Models for Keyword Spotting

Beltrán Labrador, Guanlong Zhao, Ignacio López Moreno +3

In this paper, we present a novel approach to adapt a sequence-to-sequence Transformer-Transducer ASR system to the keyword spotting (KWS) task. We achieve this by replacing the ke…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Thinking Two Moves Ahead: Anticipating Other Users Improves Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

Yuxin Wen, Jonas Geiping, Liam Fowl +4

Federated learning is particularly susceptible to model poisoning and backdoor attacks because individual users have direct control over the training data and model updates. At the…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Poisons that are learned faster are more effective

Pedro Sandoval-Segura, Vasu Singla, Liam Fowl +4

Imperceptible poisoning attacks on entire datasets have recently been touted as methods for protecting data privacy. However, among a number of defenses preventing the practical us…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Can Neural Nets Learn the Same Model Twice? Investigating Reproducibility and Double Descent from the Decision Boundary Perspective

Gowthami Somepalli, Liam Fowl, Arpit Bansal +5

We discuss methods for visualizing neural network decision boundaries and decision regions. We use these visualizations to investigate issues related to reproducibility and general…

cs.LG2022★ 16 cited

Fishing for User Data in Large-Batch Federated Learning via Gradient Magnification

Yuxin Wen, Jonas Geiping, Liam Fowl +2

Federated learning (FL) has rapidly risen in popularity due to its promise of privacy and efficiency. Previous works have exposed privacy vulnerabilities in the FL pipeline by reco…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

Decepticons: Corrupted Transformers Breach Privacy in Federated Learning for Language Models

Liam Fowl, Jonas Geiping, Steven Reich +4

A central tenet of Federated learning (FL), which trains models without centralizing user data, is privacy. However, previous work has shown that the gradient updates used in FL ca…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Execute Order 66: Targeted Data Poisoning for Reinforcement Learning

Harrison Foley, Liam Fowl, Tom Goldstein +1

Data poisoning for reinforcement learning has historically focused on general performance degradation, and targeted attacks have been successful via perturbations that involve cont…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

Robbing the Fed: Directly Obtaining Private Data in Federated Learning with Modified Models

Liam Fowl, Jonas Geiping, Wojtek Czaja +2

Federated learning has quickly gained popularity with its promises of increased user privacy and efficiency. Previous works have shown that federated gradient updates contain infor…

cs.LG2021★ 33 cited

Adversarial Examples Make Strong Poisons

Liam Fowl, Micah Goldblum, Ping-yeh Chiang +3

The adversarial machine learning literature is largely partitioned into evasion attacks on testing data and poisoning attacks on training data. In this work, we show that adversari…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Sleeper Agent: Scalable Hidden Trigger Backdoors for Neural Networks Trained from Scratch

Hossein Souri, Liam Fowl, Rama Chellappa +2

As the curation of data for machine learning becomes increasingly automated, dataset tampering is a mounting threat. Backdoor attackers tamper with training data to embed a vulnera…

cs.LG2021★ 17 cited

DP-InstaHide: Provably Defusing Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks with Differentially Private Data Augmentations

Eitan Borgnia, Jonas Geiping, Valeriia Cherepanova +6

Data poisoning and backdoor attacks manipulate training data to induce security breaches in a victim model. These attacks can be provably deflected using differentially private (DP…

cs.CR2021★ 10 cited

Preventing Unauthorized Use of Proprietary Data: Poisoning for Secure Dataset Release

Liam Fowl, Ping-yeh Chiang, Micah Goldblum +4

Large organizations such as social media companies continually release data, for example user images. At the same time, these organizations leverage their massive corpora of releas…

cs.LG2021★ 13 cited

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Robust(er): How to Adversarially Train against Data Poisoning

Jonas Geiping, Liam Fowl, Gowthami Somepalli +3

Data poisoning is a threat model in which a malicious actor tampers with training data to manipulate outcomes at inference time. A variety of defenses against this threat model hav…

cs.CR2020★ 1 cited

Strong Data Augmentation Sanitizes Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks Without an Accuracy Tradeoff

Eitan Borgnia, Valeriia Cherepanova, Liam Fowl +5

Data poisoning and backdoor attacks manipulate victim models by maliciously modifying training data. In light of this growing threat, a recent survey of industry professionals reve…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Random Network Distillation as a Diversity Metric for Both Image and Text Generation

Liam Fowl, Micah Goldblum, Arjun Gupta +2

Generative models are increasingly able to produce remarkably high quality images and text. The community has developed numerous evaluation metrics for comparing generative models.…

cs.CV2020★ 36 cited

Witches' Brew: Industrial Scale Data Poisoning via Gradient Matching

Jonas Geiping, Liam Fowl, W. Ronny Huang +4

Data Poisoning attacks modify training data to maliciously control a model trained on such data. In this work, we focus on targeted poisoning attacks which cause a reclassification…