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Tom Goldstein

University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science, College Park, MD, USA

33 papers at tracked venues · 28 at CORE A* · active 2024–2025

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Jonas Geiping
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Micah Goldblum
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John Kirchenbauer
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Yuxin Wen
×7
Furong Huang
×7
Gowthami Somepalli
×7
Abhinav Bhatele
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Neel Jain
×5
Avi Schwarzschild
×5
Heng Huang
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Tianyi Zhou
×4
Aniruddha Saha
×4

Papers

  1. A Technical Report on "Erasing the Invisible": The 2024 NeurIPS Competition on Stress Testing Image Watermarks
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Mucong Ding
    ,
    Bang An
    ,
    Tahseen Rabbani
    ,
    Chenghao Deng
    ,
    Anirudh Satheesh
    ,
    Souradip Chakraborty
    ,
    Mehrdad Saberi
    ,
    Yuxin Wen
    ,
    Kyle Sang
    ,
    Aakriti Agrawal
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Mo Zhou
    ,
    Mary-Anne Hartley
    ,
    Lei Li
    ,
    Yu-Xiang Wang
    ,
    Vishal M. Patel
    ,
    Soheil Feizi
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Furong Huang
  2. ARGUS: Hallucination and Omission Evaluation in Video-LLMs
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Ruchit Rawal
    ,
    Reza Shirkavand
    ,
    Heng Huang
    ,
    Gowthami Somepalli
    , Tom Goldstein
  3. Can Watermarking Large Language Models Prevent Copyrighted Text Generation and Hide Training Data?
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess
    ,
    Zora Che
    ,
    Bang An
    ,
    Yuancheng Xu
    ,
    Pankayaraj Pathmanathan
    ,
    Souradip Chakraborty
    ,
    Sicheng Zhu
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Furong Huang
  4. Dense Backpropagation Improves Training for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ashwinee Panda
    ,
    Vatsal Baherwani
    ,
    Zain Sarwar
    ,
    Benjamin Thérien
    ,
    Sambit Sahu
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Supriyo Chakraborty
  5. Efficient Fine-Tuning and Concept Suppression for Pruned Diffusion Models
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Reza Shirkavand
    ,
    Peiran Yu
    ,
    Shangqian Gao
    ,
    Gowthami Somepalli
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Heng Huang
  6. Enhancing Visual-Language Modality Alignment in Large Vision Language Models via Self-Improvement
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Xiyao Wang
    ,
    Jiuhai Chen
    ,
    Zhaoyang Wang
    ,
    Yuhang Zhou
    ,
    Yiyang Zhou
    ,
    Huaxiu Yao
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Parminder Bhatia
    ,
    Taha A. Kass-Hout
    ,
    Furong Huang
    ,
    Cao Xiao
  7. FineGRAIN: Evaluating Failure Modes of Text-to-Image Models with Vision Language Model Judges
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Kevin David Hayes
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
    ,
    Vikash Sehwag
    ,
    Gowthami Somepalli
    ,
    Ashwinee Panda
    , Tom Goldstein
  8. Gemstones: A Model Suite for Multi-Faceted Scaling Laws
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Sean McLeish
    ,
    John Kirchenbauer
    ,
    David Yu Miller
    ,
    Siddharth Singh
    ,
    Abhinav Bhatele
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
    ,
    Ashwinee Panda
    , Tom Goldstein
  9. LLM-Generated Passphrases That Are Secure and Easy to Remember
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Jie S. Li
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
    ,
    Aniruddha Saha
    , Tom Goldstein
  10. LiveBench: A Challenging, Contamination-Limited LLM Benchmark
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Colin White
    ,
    Samuel Dooley
    ,
    Manley Roberts
    ,
    Arka Pal
    ,
    Benjamin Feuer
    ,
    Siddhartha Jain
    ,
    Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
    ,
    Neel Jain
    ,
    Khalid Saifullah
    ,
    Sreemanti Dey
    ,
    Shubh-Agrawal
    ,
    Sandeep Singh Sandha
    ,
    Siddartha V. Naidu
    ,
    Chinmay Hegde
    ,
    Yann LeCun
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Willie Neiswanger
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
  11. Multimodal Agentic Model Predictive Control
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay
    ,
    John (Jack) Cole
    , Tom Goldstein,
    David Jacobs
  12. PUP 3D-GS: Principled Uncertainty Pruning for 3D Gaussian Splatting
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Alex Hanson
    ,
    Allen Tu
    ,
    Vasu Singla
    ,
    Mayuka Jayawardhana
    ,
    Matthias Zwicker
    , Tom Goldstein
  13. Quantifying Cross-Modality Memorization in Vision-Language Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yuxin Wen
    ,
    Yangsibo Huang
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Ravi Kumar
    ,
    Badih Ghazi
    ,
    Chiyuan Zhang
  14. Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jonas Geiping
    ,
    Sean McLeish
    ,
    Neel Jain
    ,
    John Kirchenbauer
    ,
    Siddharth Singh
    ,
    Brian R. Bartoldson
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Abhinav Bhatele
    , Tom Goldstein
  15. Speedy-Splat: Fast 3D Gaussian Splatting with Sparse Pixels and Sparse Primitives
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Alex Hanson
    ,
    Allen Tu
    ,
    Geng Lin
    ,
    Vasu Singla
    ,
    Matthias Zwicker
    , Tom Goldstein
  16. The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Nikhil Kandpal
    ,
    Brian Lester
    ,
    Colin A. Raffel
    ,
    Sebastian Majstorovic
    ,
    Stella Biderman
    ,
    Baber Abbasi
    ,
    Luca Soldaini
    ,
    Enrico Shippole
    ,
    A. Feder Cooper
    ,
    Aviya Skowron
    ,
    Shayne Longpre
    ,
    Lintang Sutawika
    ,
    Alon Albalak
    ,
    Zhenlin Xu
    ,
    Guilherme Penedo
    ,
    Loubna Ben Allal
    ,
    Elie Bakouch
    ,
    John David Pressman
    ,
    Honglu Fan
    ,
    Dashiell Stander
    ,
    Guangyu Song
    ,
    Aaron Gokaslan
    ,
    John Kirchenbauer
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Brian R. Bartoldson
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Tyler Murray
  17. Zero-Shot Vision Encoder Grafting via LLM Surrogates
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Kaiyu Yue
    ,
    Vasu Singla
    ,
    Menglin Jia
    ,
    John Kirchenbauer
    ,
    Rifaa Qadri
    ,
    Zikui Cai
    ,
    Abhinav Bhatele
    ,
    Furong Huang
    , Tom Goldstein
  18. Be like a Goldfish, Don't Memorize! Mitigating Memorization in Generative LLMs
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Abhimanyu Hans
    ,
    John Kirchenbauer
    ,
    Yuxin Wen
    ,
    Neel Jain
    ,
    Hamid Kazemi
    ,
    Prajwal Singhania
    ,
    Siddharth Singh
    ,
    Gowthami Somepalli
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    ,
    Abhinav Bhatele
    , Tom Goldstein
  19. CALVIN: Improved Contextual Video Captioning via Instruction Tuning
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Gowthami Somepalli
    ,
    Arkabandhu Chowdhury
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    ,
    Ronen Basri
    , Tom Goldstein,
    David Jacobs
  20. Easy2Hard-Bench: Standardized Difficulty Labels for Profiling LLM Performance and Generalization
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Mucong Ding
    ,
    Chenghao Deng
    ,
    Jocelyn Choo
    ,
    Zichu Wu
    ,
    Aakriti Agrawal
    ,
    Avi Schwarzschild
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    , Tom Goldstein,
    John Langford
    ,
    Animashree Anandkumar
    ,
    Furong Huang
  21. Hierarchical Point Attention for Indoor 3D Object Detection
    ICRA 2024 ·
    Manli Shu
    ,
    Le Xue
    ,
    Ning Yu
    ,
    Roberto Martín-Martín
    ,
    Caiming Xiong
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Juan Carlos Niebles
    ,
    Ran Xu
  22. InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Lichang Chen
    ,
    Jiuhai Chen
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Heng Huang
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
  23. Investigating Style Similarity in Diffusion Models
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Gowthami Somepalli
    ,
    Anubhav Gupta
    ,
    Kamal Gupta
    ,
    Shramay Palta
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    ,
    Abhinav Shrivastava
    , Tom Goldstein
  24. NEFTune: Noisy Embeddings Improve Instruction Finetuning
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Neel Jain
    ,
    Ping-yeh Chiang
    ,
    Yuxin Wen
    ,
    John Kirchenbauer
    ,
    Hong-Min Chu
    ,
    Gowthami Somepalli
    ,
    Brian R. Bartoldson
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Avi Schwarzschild
    ,
    Aniruddha Saha
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    , Tom Goldstein
  25. ODIN: Disentangled Reward Mitigates Hacking in RLHF
    ICML 2024 ·
    Lichang Chen
    ,
    Chen Zhu
    ,
    Jiuhai Chen
    ,
    Davit Soselia
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Heng Huang
    ,
    Mohammad Shoeybi
    ,
    Bryan Catanzaro
  26. Object Recognition as Next Token Prediction
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Kaiyu Yue
    ,
    Bor-Chun Chen
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    ,
    Hengduo Li
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Ser-Nam Lim
  27. On the Reliability of Watermarks for Large Language Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    John Kirchenbauer
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    ,
    Yuxin Wen
    ,
    Manli Shu
    ,
    Khalid Saifullah
    ,
    Kezhi Kong
    ,
    Kasun Fernando
    ,
    Aniruddha Saha
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
    , Tom Goldstein
  28. Privacy Backdoors: Enhancing Membership Inference through Poisoning Pre-trained Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yuxin Wen
    ,
    Leo Marchyok
    ,
    Sanghyun Hong
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Nicholas Carlini
  29. Shadowcast: Stealthy Data Poisoning Attacks Against Vision-Language Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yuancheng Xu
    ,
    Jiarui Yao
    ,
    Manli Shu
    ,
    Yanchao Sun
    ,
    Zichu Wu
    ,
    Ning Yu
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Furong Huang
  30. Spotting LLMs With Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text
    ICML 2024 ·
    Abhimanyu Hans
    ,
    Avi Schwarzschild
    ,
    Valeriia Cherepanova
    ,
    Hamid Kazemi
    ,
    Aniruddha Saha
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    , Tom Goldstein
  31. Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Sean McLeish
    ,
    Arpit Bansal
    ,
    Alex Stein
    ,
    Neel Jain
    ,
    John Kirchenbauer
    ,
    Brian R. Bartoldson
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Abhinav Bhatele
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    ,
    Avi Schwarzschild
    , Tom Goldstein
  32. Universal Guidance for Diffusion Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Arpit Bansal
    ,
    Hong-Min Chu
    ,
    Avi Schwarzschild
    ,
    Soumyadip Sengupta
    ,
    Micah Goldblum
    ,
    Jonas Geiping
    , Tom Goldstein
  33. WAVES: Benchmarking the Robustness of Image Watermarks
    ICML 2024 ·
    Bang An
    ,
    Mucong Ding
    ,
    Tahseen Rabbani
    ,
    Aakriti Agrawal
    ,
    Yuancheng Xu
    ,
    Chenghao Deng
    ,
    Sicheng Zhu
    ,
    Abdirisak Mohamed
    ,
    Yuxin Wen
    , Tom Goldstein,
    Furong Huang