Alfy Samuel

Researcher, AI Foundations, CapitalOne

Joined

September 2024

Names

Alfy Samuel (Preferred)

Emails

****@capitalone.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

AI Foundations, CapitalOne (capitalone.com)

2022 – Present

Researcher

AI Center of Excellence, Fidelity Investments (fmr.com)

2018 – 2022

MS student

Institute for Advanced Analytics, North Carolina State University (ncsu.edu)

2017 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

NLP

Present

Deep Learning

Present

Responsible AI

Present

Computer Vision

Present

Data Centric AI

Present

LLM

Present

GenAI

Present

Publications

EPSVec: Efficient and Private Synthetic Data Generation via Dataset Vectors
Amin Banayeeanzade, Qingchuan Yang, Deqing Fu, Spencer Hong, Erin Babinsky, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar, Robin Jia, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
- ICLR 2026 Workshop DATA-FM
- Readers: Everyone
LLM Optimization Unlocks Real-Time Pairwise Reranking
Jingyu Wu, Aditya Shrivastava, Jing Zhu, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar, Daben Liu
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Play by the Type Rules: Inferring Constraints for Small Language Models in Declarative Programs
Parker Glenn, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu
- AITD@EurIPS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Comparison of Independent and Joint Fine-tuning Strategies for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Neal Lawton, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar, Daben Liu
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Improving Consistency in Retrieval-Augmented Systems with Group Similarity Rewards
Faisal Hamman, Chenyang Zhu, Anoop Kumar, Xujun Peng, Sanghamitra Dutta, Daben Liu, Alfy Samuel
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Confidence-Based Response Abstinence: Improving LLM Trustworthiness via Activation-Based Uncertainty Estimation
Zhiqi Huang, Vivek V. Datla, Chenyang Zhu, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu, Anoop Kumar, Ritesh Soni
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Readability Reconsidered: A Cross-Dataset Analysis of Reference-Free Metrics
Catarina G. Belém, Parker Glenn, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar, Daben Liu
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Uncertainty as Feature Gaps: Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs in Contextual Question-Answering
Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Sungmin Kang, Zhiqi Huang, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Catarina G. Belém, Chenyang Zhu, Anoop Kumar, Alfy Samuel, Salman Avestimehr, Daben Liu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Alignment-Weighted DPO: A principled reasoning approach to improve safety alignment
Mengxuan Hu, Vivek Datla, Anoop Kumar, Zihan Guan, Sheng Li, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Uncertainty as Feature Gaps: Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs in Contextual Question-Answering
Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Sungmin Kang, Zhiqi Huang, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Catarina G Belém, Chenyang Zhu, Anoop Kumar, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu, Salman Avestimehr, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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