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Joshua Nathaniel Williams

PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University
Joined
February 2021

Names

Joshua Nathaniel Williams (Preferred)

Emails

****@andrew.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student
Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)
Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
J Zico Kolter
Present

Expertise

Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making
Present

Publications

  • Automated Black-box Prompt Engineering for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation

    Yutong He, Alexander Robey, Naoki Murata, Yiding Jiang, Joshua Nathaniel Williams, George J. Pappas, Hamed Hassani, Yuki Mitsufuji, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, J Zico Kolter
    • Accepted by TMLR
    • Readers: Everyone
  • Prompt Recovery for Image Generation Models: A Comparative Study of Discrete Optimizers

    Joshua Nathaniel Williams, Avi Schwarzschild, Yutong He, J Zico Kolter
    • Submitted to ICLR 2025
    • Readers: Everyone
  • Automated Black-box Prompt Engineering for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation

    Yutong He, Alexander Robey, Naoki Murata, Yiding Jiang, Joshua Nathaniel Williams, George J. Pappas, Hamed Hassani, Yuki Mitsufuji, Russ Salakhutdinov, J Zico Kolter
    • Submitted to ICLR 2025
    • Readers: Everyone
  • FUSE-ing Language Models: Zero-Shot Adapter Discovery for Prompt Optimization Across Tokenizers

    Joshua Nathaniel Williams, J Zico Kolter
    • COLM
    • Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

  • Alexander Robey
  • Avi Schwarzschild
  • George J. Pappas
  • Hamed Hassani
  • J Zico Kolter
  • Naoki Murata
  • Ruslan Salakhutdinov
  • Russ Salakhutdinov
  • Yiding Jiang
  • Yuki Mitsufuji
  • Yutong He
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