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Alvin Zhang

3 accepted papers

2026

Compute When Worth It: Risk Control for Reasoning on a Compute Budget

ICML 2026poster

Reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs) enable test-time scaling, with dataset-level accuracy improving as the token budget increases, motivating adaptive reasoning---spending tokens when they improve reliability and stopping early when additional computation is unlikely to help. However, setting the…

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2026

Trust Functions: Near Lossless Weak-to-Strong Generalization by Learning to Trust the Weak Teacher

ICML 2026poster

Weak-to-strong generalization studies how to improve a strong student using supervision from a weaker teacher when reliable labels are scarce. We view this primarily as a data selection problem, where the key challenge is to identify which weak labels are reliable enough to serve as a training signa…

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2025

FEEDBACK FRICTION: LLMs Struggle to Fully Incorporate External Feedback

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent studies have shown LLMs possess some ability to improve their responses when given external feedback. However, it remains unclear how effectively and thoroughly these models can incorporate extrinsic feedback. In an ideal scenario, if LLMs receive near-perfect and complete feedback, we would…

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