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most citedThe Evolution of Statistical Induction Heads: In-Context Learning Markov Chains

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cs.CR2026

Understanding and Mitigating Role Spoofing in LLMs

Ezra Edelman, Benjamin Edelman, Surbhi Goel +1

Despite growing capabilities, LLMs remain susceptible to prompt injections: malicious inputs that can manipulate or hijack models. In particular, it has recently been observed that…

cs.LG2026

Less Data, Faster Training: repeating smaller datasets speeds up learning via sampling biases

Jingwen Liu, Ezra Edelman, Surbhi Goel +1

This work investigates the ``small-vs-large gap'', where repeating on fewer samples can lead to compute saving during training compared to using a larger dataset. This is observed…

cs.LG2026

Reliable Abstention under Adversarial Injections: Tight Lower Bounds and New Upper Bounds

Ezra Edelman, Surbhi Goel

We study online learning in the adversarial injection model introduced by [Goel et al. 2017], where a stream of labeled examples is predominantly drawn i.i.d.\ from an unknown dist…

cs.LG2025

Let Me Think! A Long Chain-of-Thought Can Be Worth Exponentially Many Short Ones

Parsa Mirtaheri, Ezra Edelman, Samy Jelassi +2

Inference-time computation has emerged as a promising scaling axis for improving large language model reasoning. However, despite yielding impressive performance, the optimal alloc…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

The Evolution of Statistical Induction Heads: In-Context Learning Markov Chains

Benjamin L. Edelman, Ezra Edelman, Surbhi Goel +2

Large language models have the ability to generate text that mimics patterns in their inputs. We introduce a simple Markov Chain sequence modeling task in order to study how this i…