Jon Saad-Falcon

PhD student, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

Joined

August 2021

Names

Jon Saad-Falcon (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@allenai.org (Confirmed)

****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science Department, Stanford University (cs.stanford.edu)

2022 – Present

Researcher

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (allenai.org)

2021 – 2022

Undergrad student

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2018 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Christopher Re

Present

PhD Advisor

Azalia Mirhoseini

Present

Advisor

Matei Zaharia

Present

Advisor

Christopher Potts

Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Think Deep, Think Fast: Investigating Efficiency of Trained-verifier-free Inference-time-scaling Methods
Junlin Wang, Shang Zhu, Jon Saad-Falcon, Ben Athiwaratkun, Qingyang Wu, Jue WANG, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Ce Zhang, Bhuwan Dhingra, James Zou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Support Your Local LMs: Redistributing LM Traffic from Cloud to Edge with TrafficBench
Jon Saad-Falcon, Avanika Narayan, Hakki Orhun Akengin, J. Wes Griffin, Herumb Shandilya, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Rebecca Joseph, Etash Kumar Guha, Shlok Natarajan, Shang Zhu, Ben Athiwaratkun, Azalia Mirhoseini, Christopher Re
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
Etash Kumar Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh, Negin Raoof, Georgios Smyrnis, Hritik Bansal, Marianna Nezhurina, Jean Mercat, Trung Vu, Zayne Rea Sprague, Ashima Suvarna, Benjamin Feuer, Leon Liangyu Chen, Zaid Khan, Eric Frankel, Sachin Grover, Caroline Choi, Niklas Muennighoff, Shiye Su, Wanjia Zhao et al. (31 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
Etash Kumar Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh, Negin Raoof, Georgios Smyrnis, Hritik Bansal, Marianna Nezhurina, Jean Mercat, Trung Vu, Zayne Rea Sprague, Ashima Suvarna, Benjamin Feuer, Leon Liangyu Chen, Zaid Khan, Eric Frankel, Sachin Grover, Caroline Choi, Niklas Muennighoff, Shiye Su, Wanjia Zhao et al. (30 additional authors not shown)
- FoRLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Shrinking the Generation-Verification Gap with Weak Verifiers
Jon Saad-Falcon, E. Kelly Buchanan, Mayee F Chen, Tzu-Heng Huang, Brendan McLaughlin, Tanvir Bhathal, Shang Zhu, Ben Athiwaratkun, Frederic Sala, Scott Linderman, Azalia Mirhoseini, Christopher Re
- ES-FoMo III
- Readers: Everyone
Weaver: Shrinking the Generation-Verification Gap by Scaling Compute for Verification
Jon Saad-Falcon, E. Kelly Buchanan, Mayee F Chen, Tzu-Heng Huang, Brendan McLaughlin, Tanvir Bhathal, Shang Zhu, Ben Athiwaratkun, Frederic Sala, Scott Linderman, Azalia Mirhoseini, Christopher Re
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
An Architecture Search Framework for Inference-Time Techniques
Jon Saad-Falcon, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Shlok Natarajan, Nahum Maru, Hristo Todorov, Etash Kumar Guha, E. Kelly Buchanan, Mayee F Chen, Neel Guha, Christopher Re, Azalia Mirhoseini
- SSI-FM Oral
- Readers: Everyone
An Architecture Search Framework for Inference-Time Techniques
Jon Saad-Falcon, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Shlok Natarajan, Nahum Maru, Hristo Todorov, Etash Kumar Guha, E. Kelly Buchanan, Mayee F Chen, Neel Guha, Christopher Re, Azalia Mirhoseini
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Archon: An Architecture Search Framework for Inference-Time Techniques
Jon Saad-Falcon, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Shlok Natarajan, Nahum Maru, Hristo Todorov, Etash Kumar Guha, E. Kelly Buchanan, Mayee F Chen, Neel Guha, Christopher Re, Azalia Mirhoseini
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Towards smaller language models via layer looping
Sabri Eyuboglu, Dylan Zinsley, Jon Saad-Falcon, Simran Arora, Atri Rudra, James Zou, Christopher Re
- ES-FoMo-II 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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