activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

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.LG2026

Not All Rollouts are Useful: Down-Sampling Rollouts in LLM Reinforcement Learning

Yixuan Even Xu, Yash Savani, Fei Fang +1

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as the leading approach for enhancing reasoning capabilities in large language models. However, it faces a fundame…

cs.LG2026

Stepwise Credit Assignment for GRPO on Flow-Matching Models

Yash Savani, Branislav Kveton, Yuchen Liu +5

Flow-GRPO successfully applies reinforcement learning to flow models, but uses uniform credit assignment across all steps. This ignores the temporal structure of diffusion generati…

cs.AI2025

Antidistillation Sampling

Yash Savani, Asher Trockman, Zhili Feng +5

Frontier models that generate extended reasoning traces inadvertently produce rich token sequences that can facilitate model distillation. Recognizing this vulnerability, model own…

cs.LG2025

Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI

Pratyush Maini, Sachin Goyal, Dylan Sam +7

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, the risk of generating harmful or toxic content remains a central challenge. Post-hoc alignment m…

cs.CV2024

Diffusing Differentiable Representations

Yash Savani, Marc Finzi, J. Zico Kolter

We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method ach…