Neel Jain

PhD student, University of Maryland, College Park

Joined

May 2022

Names

Neel Jain (Preferred)

Emails

****@umd.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Maryland, College Park (umd.edu)

2021 – Present

Undergrad student

Williams College (williams.edu)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Deep Learning

2021 – Present

Publications

DynaGuard: A Dynamic Guardian Model With User-Defined Policies
Monte Hoover, Vatsal Baherwani, Neel Jain, Khalid Saifullah, Joseph James Vincent, Chirag Jain, Melissa Kazemi Rad, C. Bayan Bruss, Ashwinee Panda, Tom Goldstein
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Scalable Pretraining of Retrieval Models
Khalid Saifullah, John Kirchenbauer, Rifaa Qadri, Abhimanyu Hans, Neel Jain, Yuxin Wen, Siddharth Singh, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Abhinav Bhatele, Tom Goldstein
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Exploiting Sparsity for Long Context Inference: Million Token Contexts on Commodity GPUs
Ryan Synk, Monte Hoover, John Kirchenbauer, Neel Jain, Alex Stein, Manli Shu, Josue Melendez Sanchez, Ramani Duraiswami, Tom Goldstein
- VecDB 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Dynamic Guardian Models: Realtime Content Moderation With User-Defined Policies
Monte Hoover, Vatsal Baherwani, Neel Jain, Khalid Saifullah, Joseph James Vincent, Chirag Jain, Melissa Kazemi Rad, C. Bayan Bruss, Ashwinee Panda, Tom Goldstein
- TTODLer-FM @ ICML 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Dynamic Guardian Models: Realtime Content Moderation With User-Defined Policies
Monte Hoover, Vatsal Baherwani, Neel Jain, Khalid Saifullah, Joseph James Vincent, Chirag Jain, Melissa Kazemi Rad, C. Bayan Bruss, Ashwinee Panda, Tom Goldstein
- MoFA Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
Jonas Geiping, Sean Michael McLeish, Neel Jain, John Kirchenbauer, Siddharth Singh, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Abhinav Bhatele, Tom Goldstein
- ES-FoMo III Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
Jonas Geiping, Sean Michael McLeish, Neel Jain, John Kirchenbauer, Siddharth Singh, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Abhinav Bhatele, Tom Goldstein
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Refusal Tokens: A Simple Way to Calibrate Refusals in Large Language Models
Neel Jain, Aditya Shrivastava, Chenyang Zhu, Daben Liu, Alfy Samuel, Ashwinee Panda, Anoop Kumar, Micah Goldblum, Tom Goldstein
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Be like a Goldfish, Don't Memorize! Mitigating Memorization in Generative LLMs
Abhimanyu Hans, Yuxin Wen, Neel Jain, John Kirchenbauer, Hamid Kazemi, Prajwal Singhania, Siddharth Singh, Gowthami Somepalli, Jonas Geiping, Abhinav Bhatele, Tom Goldstein
- ICLR 2025 Workshop Data Problems Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Refusal Tokens: A Simple Way to Calibrate Refusals in Large Language Models
Neel Jain, Aditya Shrivastava, Chenyang Zhu, Daben Liu, Alfy Samuel, Ashwinee Panda, Anoop Kumar, Micah Goldblum, Tom Goldstein
- SafeGenAi Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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