Publications by Zico Kolter

Preprint

Accelerating Diffusion Planners in Offline RL via Reward-Aware Consistency Trajectory Distillation

2026
Duan X, He Y, Tajwar F, Salakhutdinov R, Kolter JZ, Schneider J

Preprint

Antidistillation Fingerprinting

2026
Xu YE, Kirchenbauer J, Savani Y, Trockman A, Robey A, Goldstein T, Fang F, Kolter JZ

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Base Models Look Human To AI Detectors

2026
Xu YE, Zhong Z, Raghunathan A, Fang F, Kolter JZ

Journal Article

Beyond alignment: Why robotic foundation models need context-aware safety

2026 • Science Robotics • 11(113):eaef2191
Robey A, Ravichandran Z, Jones EK, Perlo J, Barez F, Kumar V, Kolter JZ, Hassani H, Pappas GJ

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Comparing AI Agents to Cybersecurity Professionals in Real-World Penetration Testing

2026
Lin JW, Jones EK, Jasper DJ, Ho EJ-S, Wu A, Yang AT, Perry N, Zou A, Fredrikson M, Kolter JZ, Liang P, Boneh D, Ho DE

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Compressed Sensing for Capability Localization in Large Language Models

2026
Bair A, Xu YE, Sun M, Kolter JZ

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From Entropy to Epiplexity: Rethinking Information for Computationally Bounded Intelligence

2026
Finzi M, Qiu S, Jiang Y, Izmailov P, Kolter JZ, Wilson AG

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Improved Mean Flows: On the Challenges of Fastforward Generative Models

2026
Geng Z, Lu Y, Wu Z, Shechtman E, Kolter JZ, He K

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Joint Distillation for Fast Likelihood Evaluation and Sampling in Flow-based Models

2026
Ai X, He Y, Gu A, Salakhutdinov R, Kolter JZ, Boffi NM, Simchowitz M

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Mamba-3: Improved Sequence Modeling using State Space Principles

2026
Lahoti A, Li KY, Chen B, Wang C, Bick A, Kolter JZ, Dao T, Gu A

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Measuring Five-Nines Reliability: Sample-Efficient LLM Evaluation in Saturated Benchmarks

2026
Kim E, Gu C, Tiwari V, Kolter JZ

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Mimetic Initialization of MLPs

2026
Trockman A, Kolter JZ

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

2026
Xu YE, Savani Y, Fang F, Kolter JZ

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Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games

2026
Rudolph M, Lichtle N, Mohammadpour S, Bayen A, Kolter JZ, Zhang A, Farina G, Vinitsky E, Sokota S

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The Finetuner's Fallacy: When to Pretrain with Your Finetuning Data

2026
Kolter Z, and others

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The Mixing method: low-rank coordinate descent for semidefinite programming with diagonal constraints

2026
Wang P-W, Chang W-C, Kolter JZ

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When Should We Introduce Safety Interventions During Pretraining?

2026
Sam D, Goyal S, Maini P, Robey A, Kolter JZ

Conference

ADAPTIVE DATA OPTIMIZATION: DYNAMIC SAMPLE SELECTION WITH SCALING LAWS

2025 • 13th International Conference on Learning Representations Iclr 2025 • 19718-19741
Jiang Y, Zhou A, Feng Z, Malladi S, Kolter JZ

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Adversarial Attacks on Robotic Vision Language Action Models

2025
Jones EK, Robey A, Zou A, Ravichandran Z, Pappas GJ, Hassani H, Fredrikson M, Kolter JZ

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Antidistillation Sampling

2025
Savani Y, Trockman A, Feng Z, Xu YE, Schwarzschild A, Robey A, Finzi M, Kolter JZ

Journal Article

Automated Black-box Prompt Engineering for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation

2025 • Transactions on Machine Learning Research • 2025-August:
He Y, Robey A, Murata N, Jiang Y, Williams JN, Pappas GJ, Hassani H, Mitsufuji Y, Salakhutdinov R, Kolter JZ

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Automated Black-box Prompt Engineering for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation

2025
He Y, Robey A, Murata N, Jiang Y, Williams JN, Pappas GJ, Hassani H, Mitsufuji Y, Salakhutdinov R, Kolter JZ

Preprint

Blind Inverse Problem Solving Made Easy by Text-to-Image Latent Diffusion

2025
Dontas M, He Y, Murata N, Mitsufuji Y, Kolter JZ, Salakhutdinov R

Preprint

Compute-Optimal LLMs Provably Generalize Better With Scale

2025
Finzi M, Kapoor S, Granziol D, Gu A, De Sa C, Kolter JZ, Wilson AG

Journal Article

CONSISTENCY MODELS MADE EASY

2025 • 13th International Conference on Learning Representations Iclr 2025 • 96638-96665
Geng Z, Pokle A, Luo W, Lin J, Kolter JZ