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Ivan Zhang

2 accepted papers

2025

To Code or Not To Code? Exploring Impact of Code in Pre-training

ICLR 2025poster

Including code in the pre-training data mixture, even for models not specifically designed for code, has become a common practice in LLMs pre-training. While there has been anecdotal consensus among practitioners that code data plays a vital role in general LLMs' performance, there is only limited w…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2018

Unsupervised Cipher Cracking Using Discrete GANs

ICLR 2018poster

This work details CipherGAN, an architecture inspired by CycleGAN used for inferring the underlying cipher mapping given banks of unpaired ciphertext and plaintext. We demonstrate that CipherGAN is capable of cracking language data enciphered using shift and Vigenere ciphers to a high degree of fide…