West, Robert

16 publications

ICLR 2026 Narrow Finetuning Leaves Clearly Readable Traces in Activation Differences Julian Minder, Clément Dumas, Stewart Slocum, Helena Casademunt, Cameron Holmes, Robert West, Neel Nanda

ICLR 2026 RL for Reasoning by Adaptively Revealing Rationales Mohammad Hossein Amani, Aryo Lotfi, Nicolas Baldwin, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Emmanuel Abbe, Robert West

ICLR 2026 SynthWorlds: Controlled Parallel Worlds for Disentangling Reasoning and Knowledge in Language Models Ken Gu, Advait Bhat, Mike A Merrill, Robert West, Xin Liu, Daniel McDuff, Tim Althoff

ICLR 2025 Controllable Context Sensitivity and the Knob Behind It Julian Minder, Kevin Du, Niklas Stoehr, Giovanni Monea, Chris Wendler, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell

ICML 2025 Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models Lars Henning Klein, Nearchos Potamitis, Roland Aydin, Robert West, Caglar Gulcehre, Akhil Arora

NeurIPS 2025 One-Step Is Enough: Sparse Autoencoders for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Viacheslav Surkov, Chris Wendler, Antonio Mari, Mikhail Terekhov, Justin Deschenaux, Robert West, Caglar Gulcehre, David Bau

NeurIPS 2025 Zip2zip: Inference-Time Adaptive Tokenization via Online Compression Saibo Geng, Nathan Ranchin, Yunzhen Yao, Maxime Peyrard, Chris Wendler, Michael Gastpar, Robert West

NeurIPSW 2024 Assessing Social Alignment: Do Personality-Prompted Large Language Models Behave like Humans? Ivan Zakazov, Mikolaj Boronski, Lorenzo Drudi, Robert West

ICLR 2024 Evaluating Language Model Agency Through Negotiations Tim Ruben Davidson, Veniamin Veselovsky, Michal Kosinski, Robert West

ICMLW 2024 How Do Llamas Process Multilingual Text? a Latent Exploration Through Activation Patching Clément Dumas, Veniamin Veselovsky, Giovanni Monea, Robert West, Chris Wendler

ICMLW 2024 Symbolic Autoencoding for Self-Supervised Sequence Learning Mohammad Hossein Amani, Nicolas Baldwin, Amin Mansouri, Martin Josifoski, Maxime Peyrard, Robert West

IJCAI 2021 A Ladder of Causal Distances Maxime Peyrard, Robert West

IJCAI 2021 Laughing Heads: Can Transformers Detect What Makes a Sentence Funny? Maxime Peyrard, Beatriz Borges, Kristina Gligoric, Robert West

AAAI 2019 Reverse-Engineering Satire, or "Paper on Computational Humor Accepted Despite Making Serious Advances" Robert West, Eric Horvitz

NeurIPS 2013 Compressive Feature Learning Hristo S Paskov, Robert West, John C Mitchell, Trevor Hastie

IJCAI 2009 Wikispeedia: An Online Game for Inferring Semantic Distances Between Concepts Robert West, Joelle Pineau, Doina Precup