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Stephen Becker

5 accepted papers

2025

A Unified Framework for Entropy Search and Expected Improvement in Bayesian Optimization

ICML 2025oral

Bayesian optimization is a widely used method for optimizing expensive black-box functions, with Expected Improvement being one of the most commonly used acquisition functions. In contrast, information-theoretic acquisition functions aim to reduce uncertainty about the function’s optimum and are oft…

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2025

Aligning to What? Limits to RLHF Based Alignment

NAACL 2025findings

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is increasingly used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, the effectiveness of RLHF in addressing underlying biases remains unclear. This study investigates the relationship between RLHF and both covert and overt bia…