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Mason Nakamura

3 accepted papers

2026

Inference-Aware Prompt Optimization for Aligning Black-Box Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Prompt optimization methods have demonstrated significant effectiveness in aligning black-box large language models (LLMs). In parallel, inference scaling strategies such as Best-of-N Sampling and Majority Voting have likewise been shown to improve alignment and performance by trading additional com

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2025

MAPLE: A Framework for Active Preference Learning Guided by Large Language Models

AAAI 2025technical

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has sparked significant interest in using natural language for preference learning. However, existing methods often suffer from high computational burdens, taxing human supervision, and lack of interpretability. To address these issues, we introduce MAPLE,…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

Formal Composition of Robotic Systems as Contract Programs

IROS 2023poster

Robotic systems are often composed of modular algorithms that each perform a specific function within a larger architecture, ranging from state estimation and task planning to trajectory optimization and object recognition. Existing work for specifying these systems as a formal composition of contra…

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