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Brando Miranda

7 accepted papers

2026

Confidence and Difficulty-Adaptive Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

RL with verifiable rewards can substantially improve LLM reasoning, yet standard GRPO-style training often uses uniform sampling and near-uniform weighting, leading to inefficient computation allocation. We study GRPO by tracking token log-probabilities, group-normalized advantages, and induced toke…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Pretraining Scaling Laws for Generative Evaluations of Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Neural scaling laws have driven the field's ever-expanding exponential growth in parameters, data and compute. While scaling behaviors for pretraining losses and discriminative benchmarks are well established, generative benchmarks such as mathematical problem-solving or software engineering remain…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Failures to Find Transferable Image Jailbreaks Between Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

The integration of new modalities into frontier AI systems offers exciting capabilities, but also increases the possibility such systems can be adversarially manipulated in undesirable ways. In this work, we focus on a popular class of vision-language models (VLMs) that generate text outputs conditi…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track

NeurIPS 2025oral

Science progresses by iteratively advancing and correcting humanity's understanding of the world. In machine learning (ML) research, rapid advancements have led to an explosion of publications, but have also led to misleading, incorrect, flawed or perhaps even fraudulent studies being accepted and s…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Putnam-AXIOM: A Functional & Static Benchmark for Measuring Higher Level Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs

ICML 2025poster

Current mathematical reasoning benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) are approaching saturation, with some achieving $>$ 90% accuracy, and are increasingly compromised by training-set contamination. We introduce Putnam-AXIOM, a benchmark of 522 university-level competition problems drawn from…

2025

Why Has Predicting Downstream Capabilities of Frontier AI Models with Scale Remained Elusive?

ICML 2025poster

Predictable behavior from scaling advanced AI systems is an extremely desirable property for engineers, companies, economists and governments alike, and while a well-established literature exists on how pretraining performance scales, predictable scaling behavior on downstream capabilities remains e…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar