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J. Zico Kolter

Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA

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

Venues

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

  1. Adaptive Data Optimization: Dynamic Sample Selection with Scaling Laws
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yiding Jiang
    ,
    Allan Zhou
    ,
    Zhili Feng
    ,
    Sadhika Malladi
    , J. Zico Kolter
  2. 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
  3. Antidistillation Sampling
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yash Savani
    ,
    Asher Trockman
    ,
    Zhili Feng
    ,
    Yixuan Even Xu
    ,
    Avi Schwarzschild
    ,
    Alexander Robey
    ,
    Marc Finzi
    , Zico Kolter
  4. 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
  5. Consistency Models Made Easy
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Zhengyang Geng
    ,
    Ashwini Pokle
    ,
    Weijian Luo
    ,
    Justin Lin
    , J. Zico Kolter
  6. Context-Parametric Inversion: Why Instruction Finetuning May Not Actually Improve Context Reliance
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Sachin Goyal
    ,
    Christina Baek
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Aditi Raghunathan
  7. Contextures: Representations from Contexts
    ICML 2025 ·
    Runtian Zhai
    ,
    Kai Yang
    ,
    Burak Varici
    ,
    Che-Ping Tsai
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Pradeep Kumar Ravikumar
  8. Idiosyncrasies in Large Language Models
    ICML 2025 ·
    Mingjie Sun
    ,
    Yida Yin
    ,
    Zhiqiu Xu
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Zhuang Liu
  9. Inference Optimal VLMs Need Fewer Visual Tokens and More Parameters
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Kevin Y. Li
    ,
    Sachin Goyal
    ,
    João D. Semedo
    , J. Zico Kolter
  10. Mean Flows for One-step Generative Modeling
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zhengyang Geng
    ,
    Mingyang Deng
    ,
    Xingjian Bai
    , Zico Kolter,
    Kaiming He
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Predicting the Performance of Black-box Language Models with Follow-up Queries
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Dylan Sam
    ,
    Marc Finzi
    , Zico Kolter
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Theory of Agreement-on-the-Line in Linear Models and Gaussian Data
    AISTATS 2025 ·
    Christina Baek
    ,
    Aditi Raghunathan
    , J. Zico Kolter
  17. 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
  18. Training a Generally Curious Agent
    ICML 2025 ·
    Fahim Tajwar
    ,
    Yiding Jiang
    ,
    Abitha Thankaraj
    ,
    Sumaita Sadia Rahman
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Jeff Schneider
    ,
    Russ Salakhutdinov
  19. Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jeremy Cohen
    ,
    Alex Damian
    ,
    Ameet Talwalkar
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Jason D. Lee
  20. 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
  21. A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Mingjie Sun
    ,
    Zhuang Liu
    ,
    Anna Bair
    , J. Zico Kolter
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. Diffusing Differentiable Representations
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yash Savani
    ,
    Marc Finzi
    , J. Zico Kolter
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. On the Joint Interaction of Models, Data, and Features
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Yiding Jiang
    ,
    Christina Baek
    , J. Zico Kolter
  30. One-Step Diffusion Distillation through Score Implicit Matching
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Weijian Luo
    ,
    Zemin Huang
    ,
    Zhengyang Geng
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Guo-Jun Qi
  31. 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
  32. Rethinking LLM Memorization through the Lens of Adversarial Compression
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Avi Schwarzschild
    ,
    Zhili Feng
    ,
    Pratyush Maini
    ,
    Zachary C. Lipton
    , J. Zico Kolter
  33. 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
  34. T-MARS: Improving Visual Representations by Circumventing Text Feature Learning
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Pratyush Maini
    ,
    Sachin Goyal
    ,
    Zachary Chase Lipton
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Aditi Raghunathan
  35. Test-Time Adaptation Induces Stronger Accuracy and Agreement-on-the-Line
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Eungyeup Kim
    ,
    Mingjie Sun
    ,
    Christina Baek
    ,
    Aditi Raghunathan
    , J. Zico Kolter
  36. 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
  37. Transformers to SSMs: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge to Subquadratic Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Aviv Bick
    ,
    Kevin Y. Li
    ,
    Eric P. Xing
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Albert Gu
  38. 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
  39. Understanding Hallucinations in Diffusion Models through Mode Interpolation
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Sumukh K. Aithal
    ,
    Pratyush Maini
    ,
    Zachary C. Lipton
    , J. Zico Kolter
  40. Understanding prompt engineering may not require rethinking generalization
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Victor Akinwande
    ,
    Yiding Jiang
    ,
    Dylan Sam
    , J. Zico Kolter
  41. Why is SAM Robust to Label Noise?
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Christina Baek
    , J. Zico Kolter,
    Aditi Raghunathan