J. Zico Kolter

Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA

41 papers at tracked venues · 39 at CORE A* · active 2024–2025

DBLP profile ↗ORCID 0000-0002-8106-5759 ↗Google Scholar ↗Homepage ↗

Venues

ICLR ×15 NeurIPS ×15 ICML ×5 CVPR ×3 AAAI ×1 AISTATS ×1 UAI ×1

Frequent coauthors

Aditi Raghunathan

×7

Christina Baek

×6

Zachary C. Lipton

×6

Pratyush Maini

×6

Yiding Jiang

×5

Sachin Goyal

×5

Zhili Feng

×4

Andy Zou

×4

Matt Fredrikson

×4

Marc Finzi

×4

Dylan Sam

×4

Maksym Andriushchenko

×3

Papers

Adaptive Data Optimization: Dynamic Sample Selection with Scaling Laws
ICLR 2025 ·
Yiding Jiang
,
Allan Zhou
,
Zhili Feng
,
Sadhika Malladi
, J. Zico Kolter
AgentHarm: A Benchmark for Measuring Harmfulness of LLM Agents
ICLR 2025 ·
Maksym Andriushchenko
,
Alexandra Souly
,
Mateusz Dziemian
,
Derek Duenas
,
Maxwell Lin
,
Justin Wang
,
Dan Hendrycks
,
Andy Zou
, J. Zico Kolter,
Matt Fredrikson
,
Yarin Gal
,
Xander Davies
Antidistillation Sampling
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Yash Savani
,
Asher Trockman
,
Zhili Feng
,
Yixuan Even Xu
,
Avi Schwarzschild
,
Alexander Robey
,
Marc Finzi
, Zico Kolter
Compute-Optimal LLMs Provably Generalize Better with Scale
ICLR 2025 ·
Marc Anton Finzi
,
Sanyam Kapoor
,
Diego Granziol
,
Anming Gu
,
Christopher De Sa
, J. Zico Kolter,
Andrew Gordon Wilson
Consistency Models Made Easy
ICLR 2025 ·
Zhengyang Geng
,
Ashwini Pokle
,
Weijian Luo
,
Justin Lin
, J. Zico Kolter
Context-Parametric Inversion: Why Instruction Finetuning May Not Actually Improve Context Reliance
ICLR 2025 ·
Sachin Goyal
,
Christina Baek
, J. Zico Kolter,
Aditi Raghunathan
Contextures: Representations from Contexts
ICML 2025 ·
Runtian Zhai
,
Kai Yang
,
Burak Varici
,
Che-Ping Tsai
, J. Zico Kolter,
Pradeep Kumar Ravikumar
Idiosyncrasies in Large Language Models
ICML 2025 ·
Mingjie Sun
,
Yida Yin
,
Zhiqiu Xu
, J. Zico Kolter,
Zhuang Liu
Inference Optimal VLMs Need Fewer Visual Tokens and More Parameters
ICLR 2025 ·
Kevin Y. Li
,
Sachin Goyal
,
João D. Semedo
, J. Zico Kolter
Mean Flows for One-step Generative Modeling
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Zhengyang Geng
,
Mingyang Deng
,
Xingjian Bai
, Zico Kolter,
Kaiming He
OS-Harm: A Benchmark for Measuring Safety of Computer Use Agents
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Thomas Kuntz
,
Agatha Duzan
,
Hao Zhao
,
Francesco Croce
, Zico Kolter,
Nicolas Flammarion
,
Maksym Andriushchenko
OpenUnlearning: Accelerating LLM Unlearning via Unified Benchmarking of Methods and Metrics
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Vineeth Dorna
,
Anmol Mekala
,
Wenlong Zhao
,
Andrew McCallum
, Zico Kolter,
Zachary C. Lipton
,
Pratyush Maini
Predicting the Performance of Black-box Language Models with Follow-up Queries
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Dylan Sam
,
Marc Finzi
, Zico Kolter
Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Pratyush Maini
,
Sachin Goyal
,
Dylan Sam
,
Alexander Robey
,
Yash Savani
,
Yiding Jiang
,
Andy Zou
,
Matt Fredrikson
,
Zachary C. Lipton
, Zico Kolter
Security Challenges in AI Agent Deployment: Insights from a Large Scale Public Competition
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Andy Zou
,
Maxwell Lin
,
Eliot Krzysztof Jones
,
Micha Nowak
,
Mateusz Dziemian
,
Nick Winter
,
Valent Nathanael
,
Ayla Croft
,
Xander Davies
,
Jai Patel
,
Robert Kirk
,
Yarin Gal
,
Dan Hendrycks
, Zico Kolter,
Matt Fredrikson
Theory of Agreement-on-the-Line in Linear Models and Gaussian Data
AISTATS 2025 ·
Christina Baek
,
Aditi Raghunathan
, J. Zico Kolter
Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-Seventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Fifteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA, February 25 - March 4, 2025
AAAI 2025 ·
Toby Walsh
,
Julie Shah
, Zico Kolter
Training a Generally Curious Agent
ICML 2025 ·
Fahim Tajwar
,
Yiding Jiang
,
Abitha Thankaraj
,
Sumaita Sadia Rahman
, J. Zico Kolter,
Jeff Schneider
,
Russ Salakhutdinov
Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows
ICLR 2025 ·
Jeremy Cohen
,
Alex Damian
,
Ameet Talwalkar
, J. Zico Kolter,
Jason D. Lee
Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs
ICML 2025 ·
Keyu Duan
,
Yiran Zhao
,
Zhili Feng
,
Jinjie Ni
,
Tianyu Pang
,
Qian Liu
,
Tianle Cai
,
Longxu Dou
,
Kenji Kawaguchi
,
Anirudh Goyal
, J. Zico Kolter,
Michael Qizhe Shieh
A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models
ICLR 2024 ·
Mingjie Sun
,
Zhuang Liu
,
Anna Bair
, J. Zico Kolter
Computing Low-Entropy Couplings for Large-Support Distributions
UAI 2024 ·
Samuel Sokota
,
Dylan Sam
,
Christian Schröder de Witt
,
Spencer Compton
,
Jakob N. Foerster
, J. Zico Kolter
DART: Implicit Doppler Tomography for Radar Novel View Synthesis
CVPR 2024 ·
Tianshu Huang
,
John Miller
,
Akarsh Prabhakara
,
Tao Jin
,
Tarana Laroia
, Zico Kolter,
Anthony Rowe
Diffusing Differentiable Representations
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Yash Savani
,
Marc Finzi
, J. Zico Kolter
Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2024, Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024
ICML 2024 ·
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
, Zico Kolter,
Katherine A. Heller
,
Adrian Weller
,
Nuria Oliver
,
Jonathan Scarlett
,
Felix Berkenkamp
From Variance to Veracity: Unbundling and Mitigating Gradient Variance in Differentiable Bundle Adjustment Layers
CVPR 2024 ·
Swaminathan Gurumurthy
,
Karnik Ram
,
Bingqing Chen
,
Zachary Manchester
, Zico Kolter
Improving Alignment and Robustness with Circuit Breakers
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Andy Zou
,
Long Phan
,
Justin Wang
,
Derek Duenas
,
Maxwell Lin
,
Maksym Andriushchenko
, J. Zico Kolter,
Matt Fredrikson
,
Dan Hendrycks
Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion
ICLR 2024 ·
Yutong He
,
Naoki Murata
,
Chieh-Hsin Lai
,
Yuhta Takida
,
Toshimitsu Uesaka
,
Dongjun Kim
,
Wei-Hsiang Liao
,
Yuki Mitsufuji
, J. Zico Kolter,
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
,
Stefano Ermon
On the Joint Interaction of Models, Data, and Features
ICLR 2024 ·
Yiding Jiang
,
Christina Baek
, J. Zico Kolter
One-Step Diffusion Distillation through Score Implicit Matching
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Weijian Luo
,
Zemin Huang
,
Zhengyang Geng
, J. Zico Kolter,
Guo-Jun Qi
Predicting the Performance of Foundation Models via Agreement-on-the-Line
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Rahul Saxena
,
Taeyoun Kim
,
Aman Mehra
,
Christina Baek
, J. Zico Kolter,
Aditi Raghunathan
Rethinking LLM Memorization through the Lens of Adversarial Compression
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Avi Schwarzschild
,
Zhili Feng
,
Pratyush Maini
,
Zachary C. Lipton
, J. Zico Kolter
Scaling Laws for Data Filtering - Data Curation Cannot be Compute Agnostic
CVPR 2024 ·
Sachin Goyal
,
Pratyush Maini
,
Zachary C. Lipton
,
Aditi Raghunathan
, J. Zico Kolter
T-MARS: Improving Visual Representations by Circumventing Text Feature Learning
ICLR 2024 ·
Pratyush Maini
,
Sachin Goyal
,
Zachary Chase Lipton
, J. Zico Kolter,
Aditi Raghunathan
Test-Time Adaptation Induces Stronger Accuracy and Agreement-on-the-Line
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Eungyeup Kim
,
Mingjie Sun
,
Christina Baek
,
Aditi Raghunathan
, J. Zico Kolter
The Update-Equivalence Framework for Decision-Time Planning
ICLR 2024 ·
Samuel Sokota
,
Gabriele Farina
,
David J. Wu
,
Hengyuan Hu
,
Kevin A. Wang
, J. Zico Kolter,
Noam Brown
Transformers to SSMs: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge to Subquadratic Models
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Aviv Bick
,
Kevin Y. Li
,
Eric P. Xing
, J. Zico Kolter,
Albert Gu
Understanding Augmentation-based Self-Supervised Representation Learning via RKHS Approximation and Regression
ICLR 2024 ·
Runtian Zhai
,
Bingbin Liu
,
Andrej Risteski
, J. Zico Kolter,
Pradeep Kumar Ravikumar
Understanding Hallucinations in Diffusion Models through Mode Interpolation
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Sumukh K. Aithal
,
Pratyush Maini
,
Zachary C. Lipton
, J. Zico Kolter
Understanding prompt engineering may not require rethinking generalization
ICLR 2024 ·
Victor Akinwande
,
Yiding Jiang
,
Dylan Sam
, J. Zico Kolter
Why is SAM Robust to Label Noise?
ICLR 2024 ·
Christina Baek
, J. Zico Kolter,
Aditi Raghunathan