Seamus Somerstep

PhD student, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Joined

May 2023

Names

Seamus Somerstep (Preferred)

Emails

****@umich.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (umich.edu)

2021 – 2026

Undergrad student

Colorado State University (colostate.edu)

2016 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Yuekai Sun

Present

PhD Advisor

Ya'acov Ritov

Present

Expertise

Algorithmic Fairness

Present

Transfer Learning

Present

Alignment of LLM's

Present

Publications

Learning to Choose or Choosing to Learn: Best-of-N vs. Supervised Fine-Tuning for Bit String Generation
Seamus Somerstep, Vinod Raman, Unique Subedi, Yuekai Sun
- AISTATS 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
CARROT: A Cost Aware Rate Optimal Router
Seamus Somerstep, Felipe Maia Polo, Allysson Flavio Melo de Oliveira, Prattyush Mangal, Mírian Silva, Onkar Bhardwaj, Mikhail Yurochkin, Subha Maity
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Sloth: scaling laws for LLM skills to predict multi-benchmark performance across families
Felipe Maia Polo, Seamus Somerstep, Leshem Choshen, Yuekai Sun, Mikhail Yurochkin
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Limitations of refinement methods for weak to strong generalization
Seamus Somerstep, Yaacov Ritov, Mikhail Yurochkin, Subha Maity, Yuekai Sun
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
CARROT: A Cost Aware Rate Optimal Router
Seamus Somerstep, Felipe Maia Polo, Allysson Flavio Melo de Oliveira, Prattyush Mangal, Mírian Silva, Onkar Bhardwaj, Mikhail Yurochkin, Subha Maity
- ICLR 2025 FM-Wild Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Algorithmic fairness in performative policy learning: escaping the impossibility of group fairness
Seamus Somerstep, Yaacov Ritov, Yuekai Sun
- ACM Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency (FAccT)
- Readers: Everyone
Microfoundation inference for strategic prediction
Daniele Bracale, Subha Maity, Felipe Maia Polo, Seamus Somerstep, Moulinath Banerjee, Yuekai Sun
- AISTATS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A transfer learning framework for weak to strong generalization
Seamus Somerstep, Felipe Maia Polo, Moulinath Banerjee, Yaacov Ritov, Mikhail Yurochkin, Yuekai Sun
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Sloth: scaling laws for LLM skills to predict multi-benchmark performance across families
Felipe Maia Polo, Seamus Somerstep, Leshem Choshen, Yuekai Sun, Mikhail Yurochkin
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
A statistical framework for weak-to-strong generalization
Seamus Somerstep, Felipe Maia Polo, Moulinath Banerjee, Yaacov Ritov, Mikhail Yurochkin, Yuekai Sun
- NextGenAISafety 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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