Yuxin Wen

Researcher, OpenAI

Joined

November 2021

Names

Yuxin Wen (Preferred)

Emails

****@umd.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

OpenAI (openai.com)

2026 – Present

PhD student

Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park (umd.edu)

2021 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Present

Expertise

Privacy in ML

2021 – Present

Publications

FictionalQA: A Dataset for Studying Memorization and Knowledge Acquisition
John Kirchenbauer, Natjanan Mongkolsupawan, Yuxin Wen, Tom Goldstein, Daphne Ippolito
- 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
RL Is a Hammer and LLMs Are Nails: A Simple Reinforcement Learning Recipe for Strong Prompt Injection
Yuxin Wen, Arman Zharmagambetov, Ivan Evtimov, Narine Kokhlikyan, Tom Goldstein, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Chuan Guo
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Quantifying Cross-Modality Memorization in Vision-Language Models
Yuxin Wen, Yangsibo Huang, Tom Goldstein, Ravi Kumar, Badih Ghazi, Chiyuan Zhang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Technical Report on “Erasing the Invisible”: The 2024 NeurIPS Competition on Stress Testing Image Watermarks
Mucong Ding, Bang An, Tahseen Rabbani, Chenghao Deng, Anirudh Satheesh, Souradip Chakraborty, Mehrdad Saberi, Yuxin Wen, Kyle Rui Sang, Aakriti Agrawal, Xuandong Zhao, Mo Zhou, Mary-Anne Hartley, Lei Li, Yu-Xiang Wang, Vishal M. Patel, Soheil Feizi, Tom Goldstein, Furong Huang
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
Reliable and Responsible Foundation Models
Xinyu Yang, Junlin Han, Rishi Bommasani, Jinqi Luo, Wenjie Qu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Adel Bibi, Xiyao Wang, Jaehong Yoon, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Shengbang Tong, Lingfeng Shen, Rafael Rafailov, Runjia Li, Zhaoyang Wang, Yiyang Zhou, Chenhang Cui, Yu Wang, Wenhao Zheng, Huichi Zhou et al. (32 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
EditScout: Locating Forged Regions from Diffusion-based Edited Images with Multimodal LLM
Quang Nguyen, Truong Vu, Trong-Tung Nguyen, Yuxin Wen, Preston K Robinette, Taylor T Johnson, Tom Goldstein, Anh Tuan Tran, Khoi Nguyen
- Arxiv
- 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
Extracting Parameter Counts from Fine-Tuning APIs
Sean Michael McLeish, Abhimanyu Hans, John Kirchenbauer, Yuxin Wen, Avi Schwarzschild, Jonas Geiping, Tom Goldstein
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
GenQA: An Instruction Dataset of LLM Generated Questions and Answers
Jiuhai Chen, Rifaa Qadri, Yuxin Wen, Neel Jain, John Kirchenbauer, Tianyi Zhou, Tom Goldstein
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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