activity
20242026
collaborators

8 papers

cs.CL2026

Anchored Decoding: Provably Reducing Copyright Risk for Any Language Model

Jacqueline He, Jonathan Hayase, Wen-tau Yih +3

Language models (LMs) tend to memorize portions of their training data and emit verbatim spans. When the underlying sources are sensitive or copyright-protected, such reproduction…

cs.CL2026

Sampling from Your Language Model One Byte at a Time

Jonathan Hayase, Alisa Liu, Noah A. Smith +1

Tokenization is used almost universally by modern language models, enabling efficient text representation using multi-byte or multi-character tokens. However, prior work has shown…

cs.LG2025

Characterizing the Training Dynamics of Private Fine-tuning with Langevin diffusion

Shuqi Ke, Charlie Hou, Sewoong Oh +1

We show that differentially private full fine-tuning (DP-FFT) can distort pre-trained backbone features based on both theoretical and empirical results. We identify the cause of th…

cs.AI2025

OML: A Primitive for Reconciling Open Access with Owner Control in AI Model Distribution

Zerui Cheng, Edoardo Contente, Ben Finch +9

The current paradigm of AI model distribution presents a fundamental dichotomy: models are either closed and API-gated, sacrificing transparency and local execution, or openly dist…

cs.CR2025

Scalable Fingerprinting of Large Language Models

Anshul Nasery, Jonathan Hayase, Creston Brooks +4

Model fingerprinting has emerged as a powerful tool for model owners to identify their shared model given API access. However, to lower false discovery rate, fight fingerprint leak…

cs.CL2025

SuperBPE: Space Travel for Language Models

Alisa Liu, Jonathan Hayase, Valentin Hofmann +3

The assumption across nearly all language model (LM) tokenization schemes is that tokens should be subwords, i.e., contained within word boundaries. While providing a seemingly rea…