Lev E McKinney

PhD student, University of Toronto

Joined

October 2021

Names

Lev E McKinney (Preferred)

Lev E. McKinney

Lev McKinney

Emails

****@mail.utoronto.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Toronto (utoronto.ca)

2023 – Present

MS student

University of Toronto (utoronto.ca)

2023 – 2025

Undergrad student

University of Toronto (utoronto.ca)

2018 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Maximilian Kaufmann

2025 – 2028

PhD Advisor

Roger Baker Grosse

2024 – 2028

PhD Advisor

Sheila A. McIlraith

2023 – 2028

Coauthor

Stephen Casper

2025 – 2025

Expertise

AI Safety

2022 – Present

Publications

Gauss-Newton Unlearning for the LLM Era
Lev E McKinney, Anvith Thudi, Juhan Bae, Tara Rezaei Kheirkhah, Nicolas Papernot, Sheila A. McIlraith, Roger Baker Grosse
- MUGen @ ICML 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Model Tampering Attacks Enable More Rigorous Evaluations of LLM Capabilities
Zora Che, Stephen Casper, Robert Kirk, Anirudh Satheesh, Stewart Slocum, Lev E McKinney, Rohit Gandikota, Aidan Ewart, Domenic Rosati, Zichu Wu, Zikui Cai, Bilal Chughtai, Yarin Gal, Furong Huang, Dylan Hadfield-Menell
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Model Tampering Attacks Enable More Rigorous Evaluations of LLM Capabilities
Zora Che, Stephen Casper, Robert Kirk, Anirudh Satheesh, Stewart Slocum, Lev E. McKinney, Rohit Gandikota, Aidan Ewart, Domenic Rosati, Zichu Wu, Zikui Cai, Bilal Chughtai, Yarin Gal, Furong Huang, Dylan Hadfield-Menell
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Model Manipulation Attacks Enable More Rigorous Evaluations of LLM Capabilities
Zora Che, Stephen Casper, Anirudh Satheesh, Rohit Gandikota, Domenic Rosati, Stewart Slocum, Lev E McKinney, Zichu Wu, Zikui Cai, Bilal Chughtai, Daniel Filan, Furong Huang, Dylan Hadfield-Menell
- SafeGenAi Poster
- Readers: Everyone
On The Fragility of Learned Reward Functions
Lev McKinney, Yawen Duan, David Krueger, Adam Gleave
- 2023 (modified: 19 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Eliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens
Nora Belrose, Zach Furman, Logan Smith, Danny Halawi, Igor Ostrovsky, Lev McKinney, Stella Biderman, Jacob Steinhardt
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 13 May 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
On The Fragility of Learned Reward Functions
Lev E McKinney, Yawen Duan, David Krueger, Adam Gleave
- Published: 05 Dec 2022, Last Modified: 15 Feb 2026
- MLSW2022
- Readers: Everyone
On The Fragility of Learned Reward Functions
Lev E McKinney, Yawen Duan, David Krueger, Adam Gleave
- 08 Oct 2022 (modified: 08 Feb 2026)
- Deep RL Workshop 2022
- Readers: Everyone
BLAST: Latent Dynamics Models from Bootstrapping
Keiran Paster, Lev E McKinney, Sheila A. McIlraith, Jimmy Ba
- 12 Oct 2021 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- Deep RL Workshop NeurIPS 2021
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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