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most citedProving membership in LLM pretraining data via data watermarks

3 citations · 3 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

SHRED: Retain-Set-Free Unlearning via Self-Distillation with Logit Demotion

Zizhao Hu, Ameya Godbole, Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei +3

Machine unlearning for large language models (LLMs) aims to selectively remove memorized content such as private data, copyrighted text, or hazardous knowledge, without costly full…

stat.ME2026

Correcting test set contamination by spiking the training data

Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Jerry Li, Ameya Godbole +1

The literature on test set contamination largely focuses on detection, but the correction of contaminated test scores is underexplored. Our core proposal is to spike the training d…

cs.CL2026

Psychological Steering of Large Language Models

Leonardo Blas, Robin Jia, Emilio Ferrara

Large language models (LLMs) emulate a consistent human-like behavior that can be shaped through activation-level interventions. This paradigm is converging on additive residual-st…

cs.CL2025

Hubble: a Model Suite to Advance the Study of LLM Memorization

Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Ameya Godbole, Mohammad Aflah Khan +7

We present Hubble, a suite of fully open-source large language models (LLMs) for the scientific study of LLM memorization. Hubble models come in standard and perturbed variants: st…

cs.CL2025

TokenSmith: Streamlining Data Editing, Search, and Inspection for Large-Scale Language Model Training and Interpretability

Mohammad Aflah Khan, Ameya Godbole, Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei +5

Understanding the relationship between training data and model behavior during pretraining is crucial, but existing workflows make this process cumbersome, fragmented, and often in…

cs.CL2025

Teaching Models to Understand (but not Generate) High-risk Data

Ryan Wang, Matthew Finlayson, Luca Soldaini +2

Language model developers typically filter out high-risk content -- such as toxic or copyrighted text -- from their pre-training data to prevent models from generating similar outp…

cs.CR2025

Robust Data Watermarking in Language Models by Injecting Fictitious Knowledge

Xinyue Cui, Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Swabha Swayamdipta +1

Data watermarking in language models injects traceable signals, such as specific token sequences or stylistic patterns, into copyrighted text, allowing copyright holders to track a…

cs.CY2025

Interrogating LLM design under a fair learning doctrine

Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Maggie Wang, Ameya Godbole +2

The current discourse on large language models (LLMs) and copyright largely takes a "behavioral" perspective, focusing on model outputs and evaluating whether they are substantiall…

cs.CL2025

Verify with Caution: The Pitfalls of Relying on Imperfect Factuality Metrics

Ameya Godbole, Robin Jia

Improvements in large language models have led to increasing optimism that they can serve as reliable evaluators of natural language generation outputs. In this paper, we challenge…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

Proving membership in LLM pretraining data via data watermarks

Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Ryan Yixiang Wang, Robin Jia

Detecting whether copyright holders' works were used in LLM pretraining is poised to be an important problem. This work proposes using data watermarks to enable principled detectio…