Publications by Zico Kolter

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

2025
Duan X, He Y, Tajwar F, Salakhutdinov R, Kolter JZ, Schneider J

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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

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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

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Compute-Optimal LLMs Provably Generalize Better With Scale

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

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D-REX: A Benchmark for Detecting Deceptive Reasoning in Large Language Models

2025
Krishna S, Zou A, Gupta R, Jones EK, Winter N, Hendrycks D, Kolter JZ, Fredrikson M, Matsoukas S

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Dojo: A Differentiable Physics Engine for Robotics

2025
Howell TA, Cleac'h SL, BrÃ¼digam J, Chen Q, Sun J, Kolter JZ, Schwager M, Manchester Z

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Evaluating Language Model Reasoning about Confidential Information

2025
Sam D, Robey A, Zou A, Fredrikson M, Kolter JZ

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Existing Large Language Model Unlearning Evaluations Are Inconclusive

2025
Feng Z, Xu YE, Robey A, Kirk R, Davies X, Gal Y, Schwarzschild A, Kolter JZ

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Finetuning CLIP to Reason about Pairwise Differences

2025
Sam D, Willmott D, Semedo JD, Kolter JZ

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Idiosyncrasies in Large Language Models

2025
Sun M, Yin Y, Xu Z, Kolter JZ, Liu Z

Journal Article

Large Scale Bilevel Optimization for N-K SCOPF Using Adversarial Robustness

2025 • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems • 40(6):5209-5220
Agarwal A, Donti PL, Kolter JZ, Pileggi L

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Looking beyond the next token

2025
Thankaraj A, Jiang Y, Kolter JZ, Bisk Y

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Mean Flows for One-step Generative Modeling

2025
Geng Z, Deng M, Bai X, Kolter JZ, He K

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

2025
Xu YE, Savani Y, Fang F, Kolter JZ

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OpenUnlearning: Accelerating LLM Unlearning via Unified Benchmarking of Methods and Metrics

2025
Dorna V, Mekala A, Zhao W, McCallum A, Lipton ZC, Kolter JZ, Maini P

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Predicting the Performance of Black-box LLMs through Self-Queries

2025
Sam D, Finzi M, Kolter JZ

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Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games

2025
Rudolph M, Lichtle N, Mohammadpour S, Bayen A, Kolter JZ, Zhang A, Farina G, Vinitsky E, Sokota S

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Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI

2025
Maini P, Goyal S, Sam D, Robey A, Savani Y, Jiang Y, Zou A, Fredrikson M, Lipton ZC, Kolter JZ

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Security Challenges in AI Agent Deployment: Insights from a Large Scale Public Competition

2025
Zou A, Lin M, Jones E, Nowak M, Dziemian M, Winter N, Grattan A, Nathanael V, Croft A, Davies X, Patel J, Kirk R, Burnikell N, Gal Y, Hendrycks D, Kolter JZ, Fredrikson M

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Thinking Slow, Fast: Scaling Inference Compute with Distilled Reasoners

2025
Paliotta D, Wang J, Pagliardini M, Li KY, Bick A, Kolter JZ, Gu A, Fleuret F, Dao T

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Training a Generally Curious Agent

2025
Tajwar F, Jiang Y, Thankaraj A, Rahman SS, Kolter JZ, Schneider J, Salakhutdinov R

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Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows

2025
Cohen JM, Damian A, Talwalkar A, Kolter JZ, Lee JD

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Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs

2025
Duan K, Zhao Y, Feng Z, Ni J, Pang T, Liu Q, Cai T, Dou L, Kawaguchi K, Goyal A, Kolter JZ, Shieh MQ

Journal Article

A SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE PRUNING APPROACH FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

2024 • 12th International Conference on Learning Representations Iclr 2024
Sun M, Liu Z, Bair A, Kolter JZ