Kyle O'Brien

Researcher, Microsoft

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January 2023

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Kyle O'Brien (Preferred)

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Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2020 – Present

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Publications

Open Technical Problems in Open-Weight AI Model Risk Management
Stephen Casper, Kyle O'Brien, Shayne Longpre, Elizabeth Seger, Kevin Klyman, Rishi Bommasani, Aniruddha Nrusimha, Ilia Shumailov, Sören Mindermann, Steven Basart, Frank Rudzicz, Kellin Pelrine, Avijit Ghosh, Andrew Strait, Robert Kirk, Dan Hendrycks, Peter Henderson, J Zico Kolter, Geoffrey Irving, Yarin Gal et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Ignorance: Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs
Kyle O'Brien, Stephen Casper, Quentin Gregory Anthony, Tomek Korbak, Robert Kirk, Xander Davies, Ishan Mishra, Geoffrey Irving, Yarin Gal, Stella Biderman
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Ignorance: Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs
Kyle O'Brien, Stephen Casper, Quentin Gregory Anthony, Tomek Korbak, Robert Kirk, Xander Davies, Ishan Mishra, Geoffrey Irving, Yarin Gal, Stella Biderman
- BioSafe GenAI 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Steering Language Model Refusal with Sparse Autoencoders
Kyle O'Brien, David Majercak, Xavier Fernandes, Richard G. Edgar, Blake Bullwinkel, Jingya Chen, Harsha Nori, Dean Carignan, Eric Horvitz, Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh
- ICML 2025 R2-FM Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Recite, Reconstruct, Recollect: Memorization in LMs as a Multifaceted Phenomenon
USVSN Sai Prashanth, Alvin Deng, Kyle O'Brien, Jyothir S V, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Jaydeep Borkar, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Jacob Ray Fuehne, Stella Biderman, Tracy Ke, Katherine Lee, Naomi Saphra
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Composable Interventions for Language Models
Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson, Kyle O'Brien, Tianjin Huang, Shanghua Gao, Shiwei Liu, Jonathan Richard Schwarz, Anurag Jayant Vaidya, Faisal Mahmood, Marinka Zitnik, Tianlong Chen, Thomas Hartvigsen
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Improving Black-box Robustness with In-Context Rewriting
Kyle O'Brien, Nathan Hoyen Ng, Isha Puri, Jorge Mendez-Mendez, Hamid Palangi, Yoon Kim, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Thomas Hartvigsen
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling
Stella Biderman, Hailey Schoelkopf, Quentin Gregory Anthony, Herbie Bradley, Kyle O'Brien, Eric Hallahan, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Shivanshu Purohit, USVSN Sai Prashanth, Edward Raff, Aviya Skowron, Lintang Sutawika, Oskar van der Wal
- ICML 2023 OralPoster
- Readers: Everyone

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