Alisa Liu

Intern, NVIDIA

PhD student, University of Washington

Joined

January 2022

Names

Alisa Liu (Preferred)

Emails

****@cs.washington.edu (Confirmed)

****@u.northwestern.edu (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@nvidia.com (Confirmed)

****@allenai.org (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Intern

NVIDIA (nvidia.com)

2024 – Present

PhD student

University of Washington (uw.edu)

2020 – Present

Intern

Google (google.com)

2023 – 2023

Undergrad student

Northwestern University (u.northwestern.edu)

2016 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Yejin Choi

Present

PhD Advisor

Noah A. Smith

Present

Expertise

text generation

Present

dataset creation

Present

tokenization

Present

Publications

Are you going to finish that? A Practical Study of the Tokenization Boundary Problem
Hao Xu, Alisa Liu, Jonathan Hayase, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Sampling from Your Language Model One Byte at a Time
Jonathan Hayase, Alisa Liu, Noah A. Smith, Sewoong Oh
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Sampling from Your Language Model One Byte at a Time
Jonathan Hayase, Alisa Liu, Noah A. Smith, Sewoong Oh
- TokShop
- Readers: Everyone
SuperBPE: Space Travel for Language Models
Alisa Liu, Jonathan Hayase, Valentin Hofmann, Sewoong Oh, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
- TokShop
- Readers: Everyone
Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
Brian Siyuan Zheng, Alisa Liu, Orevaoghene Ahia, Jonathan Hayase, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith
- TokShop
- Readers: Everyone
Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
Brian Siyuan Zheng, Alisa Liu, Orevaoghene Ahia, Jonathan Hayase, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training
Nathan Lambert, Jacob Morrison, Valentina Pyatkin, Shengyi Huang, Hamish Ivison, Faeze Brahman, Lester James Validad Miranda, Alisa Liu, Nouha Dziri, Xinxi Lyu, Yuling Gu, Saumya Malik, Victoria Graf, Jena D. Hwang, Jiangjiang Yang, Ronan Le Bras, Oyvind Tafjord, Christopher Wilhelm, Luca Soldaini, Noah A. Smith et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SuperBPE: Space Travel for Language Models
Alisa Liu, Jonathan Hayase, Valentin Hofmann, Sewoong Oh, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Data Mixture Inference: What do BPE Tokenizers Reveal about their Training Data?
Jonathan Hayase, Alisa Liu, Yejin Choi, Sewoong Oh, Noah A. Smith
- ICML 2024 FM-Wild Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Decoding-Time Language Model Alignment with Multiple Objectives
Ruizhe Shi, Yifang Chen, Yushi Hu, Alisa Liu, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Noah A. Smith, Simon Shaolei Du
- TF2M 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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