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Arka Pal

8 accepted papers

2025

Hidden No More: Attacking and Defending Private Third-Party LLM Inference

ICML 2025poster

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to widespread adoption of third-party inference services, raising critical privacy concerns. In this work, we introduce a novel reconstruction technique that can recover original prompts from hidden states with nearly perfect accuracy across m…

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2025

LiveBench: A Challenging, Contamination-Limited LLM Benchmark

ICLR 2025spotlight

Test set contamination, wherein test data from a benchmark ends up in a newer model's training set, is a well-documented obstacle for fair LLM evaluation and can quickly render benchmarks obsolete. To mitigate this, many recent benchmarks crowdsource new prompts and evaluations from human or LLM jud…

2024

A Soft Robotic System Automatically Learns Precise Agile Motions Without Model Information

IROS 2024poster

Many application domains, e.g., in medicine and manufacturing, can greatly benefit from pneumatic Soft Robots (SRs). However, the accurate control of SRs has remained a significant challenge to date, mainly due to their nonlinear dynamics and viscoelastic material properties. Conventional control de…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Large Language Models Must Be Taught to Know What They Don’t Know

NeurIPS 2024poster

When using large language models (LLMs) in high-stakes applications, we need to know when we can trust their predictions. Some works argue that prompting high-performance LLMs is sufficient to produce calibrated uncertainties, while others introduce sampling methods that can be prohibitively expensi…

2018

SCAN: Learning Hierarchical Compositional Visual Concepts

ICLR 2018poster

The seemingly infinite diversity of the natural world arises from a relatively small set of coherent rules, such as the laws of physics or chemistry. We conjecture that these rules give rise to regularities that can be discovered through primarily unsupervised experiences and represented as abstract…

Cited by 151SourcePDFScholar
2017

DARLA: Improving Zero-Shot Transfer in Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2017poster

Domain adaptation is an important open problem in deep reinforcement learning (RL). In many scenarios of interest data is hard to obtain, so agents may learn a source policy in a setting where data is readily available, with the hope that it generalises well to the target domain. We propose a new mu…

Cited by 560SourcePDFScholar
2017

beta-VAE: Learning Basic Visual Concepts with a Constrained Variational Framework

ICLR 2017poster

Learning an interpretable factorised representation of the independent data generative factors of the world without supervision is an important precursor for the development of artificial intelligence that is able to learn and reason in the same way that humans do. We introduce beta-VAE, a new state…

Cited by 6129SourceScholar