activity
20242026
collaborators

26 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.LG2026

Position: Zeroth-Order Optimization in Deep Learning Is Underexplored, Not Underpowered

Sijia Liu, Yicheng Lang, Soumyadeep Pal +6

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization, learning from finite differences of function evaluations without backpropagation, has recently regained attention in deep learning due to its memory…

cs.LG2026

Get RICH or Die Scaling: Profitably Trading Inference Compute for Robustness

Tavish McDonald, Bo Lei, Stanislav Fort +2

Test-time reasoning has raised benchmark performances and even shown promise in addressing the historically intractable problem of making models robust to adversarially out-of-dist…

cs.LG2026

A Comedy of Estimators: On KL Regularization in RL Training of LLMs

Vedant Shah, Johan Obando-Ceron, Vineet Jain +10

The reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs) can be substantially improved by training them with reinforcement learning (RL). The RL objective for LLM training involve…

cs.LG2026

Recursive Self-Aggregation Unlocks Deep Thinking in Large Language Models

Siddarth Venkatraman, Vineet Jain, Sarthak Mittal +9

Test-time scaling methods improve the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by increasing the amount of compute used during inference to make a prediction. Inference-time co…

cs.CV2026

TruthPrInt: Mitigating Large Vision-Language Models Object Hallucination Via Latent Truthful-Guided Pre-Intervention

Jinhao Duan, Fei Kong, Hao Cheng +6

Object Hallucination (OH) has been acknowledged as one of the major trustworthy challenges in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LL…