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Vlad Bogolin
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AI/ML Engineer & Researcher | Large Language Models (LLMs)
Excited to share what I’ve been working on these past months: automated forecasting.

At Mantic, we’re building AI systems that predict the outcomes of future events—across geopolitics, business, policy, technology, and culture. 🌍
August 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
OpenAI releases o3-mini
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OpenAI o3-mini
Pushing the frontier of cost-effective reasoning.
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January 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Video summary of recent work on alignment faking

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Alignment Faking in Large Language Models
YouTube video by Samuel Albanie
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December 27, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Video summary of deliberative alignment

youtu.be/1efVS4DeEOs

Links:
- Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.16339
- Blog: openai.com/index/delibe...
Deliberative Alignment
YouTube video by Samuel Albanie
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December 28, 2024 at 9:02 PM
New study shows LLMs can strategically comply with training objectives while maintaining different behaviors outside training - similar to how humans might act differently when monitored vs unmonitored.

Congrats to the authors for their work! 🔍
Alignment faking in large language models - by Vlad Bogolin
Today's paper explores a concerning phenomenon called "alignment faking" in large language models (LLMs). The study demonstrates how LLMs can strategi...
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December 23, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Phi-4: A 14B parameter language model prioritizing data quality over size, achieving performance comparable to larger models in reasoning tasks.

Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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December 14, 2024 at 9:46 PM
New paper introduces Leffa, a method for controllable person image generation that preserves fine-grained details while manipulating appearance and pose. Congrats to the authors for their work! 🖼️👥
Blog
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December 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Reposted by Vlad Bogolin
Microsoft debuts Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview
Microsoft debuts Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview
Microsoft has announced the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model is improved in several areas over its predecessors, Microsoft claims — in particular math problem solving. That’s partly the result of improved…
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December 13, 2024 at 1:03 AM
🌍📸 New paper introduces a generative approach to global visual geolocation, addressing the challenge of varying location precision in images. Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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December 12, 2024 at 7:37 PM
OpenAI introduces Sora, a text-to-video generation model with advanced safety measures. Here's a breakdown of its capabilities and safeguards: 🧵
Blog
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December 10, 2024 at 6:57 PM
OpenAI introduces the o1 model series, trained with large-scale reinforcement learning for chain-of-thought reasoning. This approach aims to enhance safety and capabilities in language models. 🧠💡

Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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December 8, 2024 at 9:52 AM
🖼️🤖 PaliGemma 2: A new family of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) that builds on the original PaliGemma, offering versatile performance across various tasks.

Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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December 5, 2024 at 8:59 PM
🔬 New paper introduces MALT: Multi-Agent LLM Training for improved reasoning in AI systems. Specialized LLMs work together to solve complex problems. Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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December 4, 2024 at 9:28 PM
🧠 New research introduces REVTHINK, a framework enhancing language models' reasoning abilities through bidirectional thinking. Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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December 3, 2024 at 6:59 PM
🖼️ New approach adapts pre-trained visual models to new tasks without fine-tuning or modifications. Visual prompting uses image inpainting to solve various computer vision tasks.

Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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December 2, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Reposted by Vlad Bogolin
Wizards and gremlins — dynamic duo 🧌🧙‍♂️
Comment with your wizard names below.
December 2, 2024 at 10:49 PM
New benchmarks DocHaystack and InfoHaystack evaluate large multimodal models on document retrieval and reasoning across 1000+ documents. V-RAG framework shows promising results in this challenging task. Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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December 1, 2024 at 8:18 AM
🔬 New study reveals "super weights" in Large Language Models - individual parameters with outsized importance for model performance.

Congrats to the authors for their work!
Blog
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November 30, 2024 at 12:37 PM
🔬 New paper introduces Critic-V, a framework enhancing Vision-Language Models' reasoning capabilities through critic-based feedback.

Congrats to the authors for their work!
November 30, 2024 at 12:17 PM
"Rapid Response" is a method that protects Large Language Models (LLMs) from misuse. Instead of trying to build perfectly robust defenses, the paper proposes quickly adapting to new jailbreak attempts after observing just a few examples.

Congrats to the authors for their work!
Rapid Response: Mitigating LLM Jailbreaks with a Few Examples
Today's paper introduces "Rapid Response", a method that protects Large Language Models (LLMs) from misuse.
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November 18, 2024 at 10:11 PM