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20242026
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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

John X. Morris, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Mark Ibrahim +1

Recent research has shown that language models can learn to \textit{reason}, often via reinforcement learning. Some work even trains low-rank parameterizations for reasoning, but c…

cs.LG2026

Observational Auditing of Label Privacy

Iden Kalemaj, Luca Melis, Maxime Boucher +2

Differential privacy (DP) auditing is essential for evaluating privacy guarantees in machine learning systems. Existing auditing methods, however, pose a significant challenge for…

cs.LG2025

Privacy Blur: Quantifying Privacy and Utility for Image Data Release

Saeed Mahloujifar, Narine Kokhlikyan, Chuan Guo +1

Image data collected in the wild often contains private information such as faces and license plates, and responsible data release must ensure that this information stays hidden. A…

cs.CR2025

CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contextual Integrity of Persistent Memory in LLMs

Niloofar Mireshghallah, Neal Mangaokar, Narine Kokhlikyan +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly use persistent memory from past interactions to enhance personalization and task performance. However, this memory introduces critical ris…

cs.LG2025

Z0-Inf: Zeroth Order Approximation for Data Influence

Narine Kokhlikyan, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Saeed Mahloujifar

A critical aspect of analyzing and improving modern machine learning systems lies in understanding how individual training examples influence a model's predictive behavior. Estimat…

cs.CR2025

Detecting Benchmark Contamination Through Watermarking

Tom Sander, Pierre Fernandez, Saeed Mahloujifar +2

Benchmark contamination poses a significant challenge to the reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs) evaluations, as it is difficult to assert whether a model has been trained…