Publications

2026

1. EMNLP — Findings

   Thinking at the Right Size: Amortized Distillation Across Post-Trained LLMs

   Yan Zhou, Sara Kangaslahti, Jonathan Geuter, Nihal V. Nayak, Marco Fumero, Francesco Locatello, and David Alvarez-Melis

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP, 2026

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   @inproceedings{zhou2026adapt,
     title = {Thinking at the Right Size: Amortized Distillation Across Post-Trained LLMs},
     author = {Zhou, Yan and Kangaslahti, Sara and Geuter, Jonathan and Nayak, Nihal V. and Fumero, Marco and Locatello, Francesco and Alvarez-Melis, David},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP},
     year = {2026},
   }

2. ICML — Workshop

   User Persona Subspaces Modulate Refusal Behavior in Language Models

   Yan Zhou, Shichang Zhang, Zidi Xiong, and Himabindu Lakkaraju

   ICML Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability, 2026

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   @article{zhou2026user,
     title = {User Persona Subspaces Modulate Refusal Behavior in Language Models},
     author = {Zhou, Yan and Zhang, Shichang and Xiong, Zidi and Lakkaraju, Himabindu},
     journal = {ICML Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability},
     year = {2026},
   }