Tianyi Lin, Columbia University Direct alignment methods are increasingly used for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, these methods suffer from the likelihood displacement, which can be driven by noisy preference pairs that induce similar likelihood for preferred and dis-preferred responses. To address this issue, we consider doing derivative-free optimization based on […]
Nigel Goldenfeld, UC San Diego Department of Physics and HDSI Abstract: The remarkable ability of modern neural networks to generalize improves with increasing network capacity, even when the number of model parameters or effective degrees of freedom exceeds the number of training data points. This phenomenon is all the more surprising given that generalization error […]
Andrej Risteski, Carnegie Mellon University Abstract: Modern AI systems are increasingly built by placing trained models inside larger computational loops. Inference-time algorithms are a basic instance of this idea: they use one or more trained models at test time to incorporate new information, exploit pretrained models as priors, and trade computational effort for accuracy, sample […]
Contemporary vision models and vision–language models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, yet remain opaque, fragile, and difficult to align across tasks and modalities. This workshop aim to foster dialogue on the urgent need for transparent, reliable, and safe computer vision systems, especially in critical domains such as healthcare, transportation, and legal decision making. It brings together […]
