activity
20242026
collaborators

11 papers

cs.LG2026

Watermarking for Proprietary Dataset Protection

John Kirchenbauer, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura +1

A growing body of literature suggests that training data membership inference problems are fundamentally hard tasks in modern language modeling settings. We argue that output water…

cs.CL2026

Multi-Token Prediction via Self-Distillation

John Kirchenbauer, Abhimanyu Hans, Brian Bartoldson +3

Existing techniques for accelerating language model inference, such as speculative decoding, require training auxiliary speculator models and building and deploying complex inferen…

cs.CL2025

Teaching Pretrained Language Models to Think Deeper with Retrofitted Recurrence

Sean McLeish, Ang Li, John Kirchenbauer +7

Recent advances in depth-recurrent language models show that recurrence can decouple train-time compute and parameter count from test-time compute. In this work, we study how to co…

cs.LG2025

Gemstones: A Model Suite for Multi-Faceted Scaling Laws

Sean McLeish, John Kirchenbauer, David Yu Miller +5

Scaling laws are typically fit using a family of models with a narrow range of frozen hyperparameter choices. In this work we study scaling laws using multiple architectural shapes…

cs.CV2025

Zero-Shot Vision Encoder Grafting via LLM Surrogates

Kaiyu Yue, Vasu Singla, Menglin Jia +6

Vision language models (VLMs) typically pair a modestly sized vision encoder with a large language model (LLM), e.g., Llama-70B, making the decoder the primary computational burden…

cs.CL2025

RAG LLMs are Not Safer: A Safety Analysis of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models

Bang An, Shiyue Zhang, Mark Dredze

Efforts to ensure the safety of large language models (LLMs) include safety fine-tuning, evaluation, and red teaming. However, despite the widespread use of the Retrieval-Augmented…