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

Do Language Models Need Sleep? Offline Recurrence for Improved Online Inference

Sangyun Lee, Sean McLeish, Tom Goldstein +1

Transformer-based large language models are increasingly used for long-horizon tasks; however, their attention mechanism scales poorly with context length. To handle this, we study…

cs.LG2026

Antidistillation Fingerprinting

Yixuan Even Xu, John Kirchenbauer, Yash Savani +5

Model distillation enables efficient emulation of frontier large language models (LLMs), creating a need for robust mechanisms to detect when a third-party student model has traine…

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…