Anthony Peng

🌟 Excited to be at #NeurIPS2025 (Dec 1–8)! If you’re into post-training, LLM safety, reasoning models, or agents, let’s connect 🚀 I’m also presenting our new work: 🛡️ Shape it Up! Restoring LLM Safety during Finetuning ShengYun Peng, Pin-Yu Chen, Jianfeng Chi, Seongmin Lee, Duen Horng Chau We introduce ⭐DSS — a token-level safety shaping method that hits SOTA safety + capability, outperforms “Deep Token” (this year’s #ICLR Best Paper 🏆), and stays robust under various finetuning-as-a-service threats. 📍 Dec 3 • 4:30–7:30 PM • Poster #1302 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17196 🤖 Code: github.com/poloclub/star-…

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NeurIPS 2025 #NeurIPS2025 #AI #MachineLearning #AISafety #ReasoningModels #AIAgents

@996roma Hi Roma, would love to chat: shengyun-peng.github.io

i'll be at #NeurIPS2025 wed through friday; reach out if you want to talk llms, safety, interpretability or really anything! we're also hiring interns at gdm this cycle, so if you are a student don't be scared to come say hi :)

(4/n) In "Shape It Up", we show how LLM guard models can be used to monitor and mitigate distractions during fine-tuning to restore the safety of the fine-tuned models. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17196 with @RealAnthonyPeng @jianfengchi Seongmin Lee, & Duen Horng Chau

I’ll be at NeurIPS in San Diego from Dec 1–7 and would love to meet both old and new friends 😊 Feel free to DM if you’d like to chat! 💬 #NeurIPS2025 #AI #MachineLearning #AISafety #ReasoningModels #AIAgents

@yong_zhengxin Thanks, Yong! Just opened my DM. Happy to connect and chat

@RealAnthonyPeng hey Anthony, would love to chat! think your DM isn’t open

🌟 Excited to be at #NeurIPS2025 (Dec 1–8)! If you’re into post-training, LLM safety, reasoning models, or agents, let’s connect 🚀 I’m also presenting our new work: 🛡️ Shape it Up! Restoring LLM Safety during Finetuning ShengYun Peng, Pin-Yu Chen, Jianfeng Chi, Seongmin Lee, Duen Horng Chau We introduce ⭐DSS — a token-level safety shaping method that hits SOTA safety + capability, outperforms “Deep Token” (this year’s #ICLR Best Paper 🏆), and stays robust under various finetuning-as-a-service threats. 📍 Dec 3 • 4:30–7:30 PM • Poster #1302 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17196 🤖 Code: github.com/poloclub/star-…

@jianfengchi @NeurIPSConf Happy to chat!! 🤣🤣

I will be at @NeurIPSConf in San Diego (Dec 2–4). Happy to catch up with old friends and meet new friends. DM me if you want to chat 💬

@zhilifeng @OpenAI Hi Zhili, would love to chat

I’ll be at #NeurIPS from 12/01-12/05. Let’s chat about deep learning research, life @OpenAI, or really anything! We will also present our poster on Antidistillation Sampling on 12/04 🥳

RECAP: arxiv.org/abs/2510.00938 STAR-DSS: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17196

✨ 𝐆𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡! ✨ I recently spoke at @IBMResearch about sthe afety alignment of generative foundation models. Huge thanks to @pinyuchenTW for the invitation and the amazing discussions! 🎙️ 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤: Safety Alignment of Generative Foundation Models 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴? I highlighted two recent collaborations with @Meta and @IBMResearch: 🧠 Internalizing safety in reasoning (RECAP) 🔧 Generalizing safety in LLM finetuning (STAR-DSS, NeurIPS'25) 👋 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐈𝐏𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓! If you’re working on post-training, reasoning models, or agentic systems, let’s connect in San Diego! 🚀

@abeirami Would love to chat :)

Will be at NeurIPS Thu Dec 4 to Sun Dec 7, excited to reconnect with old friends and make new ones. If you are excited about AI engineering (orchestration, evals, and optimizing scaffolds), we are hiring! On Saturday I’ll be on panels at the Reliable ML & UniReps workshops.

Thank you for having me! I will talk about the safety alignment of generative foundation models tonight at Ploutos!

I passed my PhD proposal this week and officially became a PhD candidate! 🎉 Feeling excited and thankful to everyone who has supported me along the way — especially my advisor, @PoloChau!

📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05451

#EMNLP2025 is here, and check out our latest survey on 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 × 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 Interpretation Meets Safety: A Survey on Interpretation Methods and Tools for Improving LLM Safety 🌟 The first survey connecting LLM interpretation & safety 🌟 Covers ~70 works on: 🔹 Safety-focused interpretation methods 🔹 Interpretation-informed safety enhancements 🔹 Practical tools that operationalize them 🌟 Distill open problems & challenges to guide future research in NLP safety Huge thanks to @SeongminLeee and all the co-authors — @cho_aeree, @gracekim, Grace Kim, @mansiphute, @PoloChau! 🙌