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Joe Benton

5 accepted papers

2026

Removing Sandbagging in LLMs by Training with Weak Supervision

ICML 2026poster

As AI systems begin to automate complex tasks, supervision increasingly relies on weaker models or limited human oversight that cannot fully verify output quality. A model more capable than its supervisors could exploit this gap through sandbagging, producing work that appears acceptable but falls s…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
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
2024

Nearly $d$-Linear Convergence Bounds for Diffusion Models via Stochastic Localization

ICLR 2024spotlight

Denoising diffusions are a powerful method to generate approximate samples from high-dimensional data distributions. Recent results provide polynomial bounds on their convergence rate, assuming $L^2$-accurate scores. Until now, the tightest bounds were either superlinear in the data dimension or req…

Cited by 154SourcePDFScholar
2022

A Continuous Time Framework for Discrete Denoising Models

NeurIPS 2022accept

We provide the first complete continuous time framework for denoising diffusion models of discrete data. This is achieved by formulating the forward noising process and corresponding reverse time generative process as Continuous Time Markov Chains (CTMCs). The model can be efficiently trained using…