Max Bartolo

Researcher, Google DeepMind

Joined

July 2019

Names

Max Bartolo

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Google DeepMind (deepmind.com)

2025 – Present

Researcher

Cohere (cohere.com)

2022 – 2025

PhD student

University College London (ucl.ac.uk)

2019 – 2024

Intern

DeepMind (deepmind.com)

2022 – 2022

Intern

Facebook (facebook.com)

2020 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Pontus Stenetorp

2019 – 2024

PhD Advisor

Sebastian Riedel

2019 – 2024

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Learning is Forgetting; LLM Training As Lossy Compression
Henry Conklin, Tom Hosking, Tan Yi-Chern, Jonathan D. Cohen, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Thomas L. Griffiths, Max Bartolo, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Likelihood Over-optimisation in Direct Alignment Algorithms
Zhengyan Shi, Sander Land, Acyr Locatelli, Matthieu Geist, Max Bartolo
- MoFA Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Reverse Engineering Human Preferences with Reinforcement Learning
Lisa Alazraki, Yi-Chern Tan, Jon Ander Campos, Maximilian Mozes, Marek Rei, Max Bartolo
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons
Shaona Ghosh, Heather Frase, Adina Williams, Sarah Luger, Paul Röttger, Fazl Barez, Sean McGregor, Kenneth Fricklas, Mala Kumar, Quentin Feuillade--Montixi, Kurt Bollacker, Felix Friedrich, Ryan Tsang, Bertie Vidgen, Alicia Parrish, Chris Knotz, Eleonora Presani, Jonathan Bennion, Marisa Ferrara Boston, Mike Kuniavsky et al. (81 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
LLMs can implicitly learn from mistakes in-context
Lisa Alazraki, Maximilian Mozes, Jon Ander Campos, Yi Chern Tan, Marek Rei, Max Bartolo
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models
Laura Ruis, Maximilian Mozes, Juhan Bae, Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara, Dwaraknath Gnaneshwar, Acyr Locatelli, Robert Kirk, Tim Rocktäschel, Edward Grefenstette, Max Bartolo
- ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Atla Selene Mini: A General Purpose Evaluation Model
Andrei Alexandru, Antonia Calvi, Henry Broomfield, Jackson Golden, Kyle Dai, Mathias Leys, Maurice Burger, Max Bartolo, Roman Engeler, Sashank Pisupati, Toby Drane, Young Sun Park
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Likelihood Over-optimisation in Direct Alignment Algorithms
Zhengyan Shi, Sander Land, Acyr Locatelli, Matthieu Geist, Max Bartolo
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models
Laura Ruis, Maximilian Mozes, Juhan Bae, Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara, Dwaraknath Gnaneshwar, Acyr Locatelli, Robert Kirk, Tim Rocktäschel, Edward Grefenstette, Max Bartolo
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The PRISM Alignment Dataset: What Participatory, Representative and Individualised Human Feedback Reveals About the Subjective and Multicultural Alignment of Large Language Models
Hannah Rose Kirk, Alexander Whitefield, Paul Röttger, Andrew Michael Bean, Katerina Margatina, Rafael Mosquera, Juan Manuel Ciro, Max Bartolo, Adina Williams, He He, Bertie Vidgen, Scott A. Hale
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Oral
- Readers: Everyone

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