Zachary Ankner

Joined

May 2022

Names

Zachary Ankner (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Undergrad student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2021 – 2025

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Expertise

transformers

Present

efficient ml

Present

Publications

Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models
Jiaxin Wen, Zachary Ankner, Yanda Chen, Arushi Somani, Peter Hase, Fabien Roger, Samuel Marks, Jacob Goldman-Wetzler, Linda Petrini, Henry Sleight, Collin Burns, He He, Shi Feng, Ethan Perez, Jan Leike
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Keep a Promise: Scaling Language Model Decoding Parallelism with Learned Asynchronous Decoding
Tian Jin, Ellie Y Cheng, Zachary Ankner, Nikunj Saunshi, Blake M Elias, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Suvinay Subramanian, Michael Carbin
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Laws for Precision
Tanishq Kumar, Zachary Ankner, Benjamin Frederick Spector, Blake Bordelon, Niklas Muennighoff, Mansheej Paul, Cengiz Pehlevan, Christopher Re, Aditi Raghunathan
- ICLR 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Critique-out-Loud Reward Models
Zachary Ankner, Mansheej Paul, Brandon Cui, Jonathan Daniel Chang, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Perplexed by Perplexity: Perplexity-Based Data Pruning With Small Reference Models
Zachary Ankner, Cody Blakeney, Kartik Sreenivasan, Max Marion, Matthew L Leavitt, Mansheej Paul
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Critique-out-Loud Reward Models
Zachary Ankner, Mansheej Paul, Brandon Cui, Jonathan Daniel Chang, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
- Pluralistic-Alignment 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Vid3D: Synthesis of Dynamic 3D Scenes using 2D Video Diffusion
Rishab Parthasarathy, Zachary Ankner, Aaron Gokaslan
- CVG Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Hydra: Sequentially-Dependent Draft Heads for Medusa Decoding
Zachary Ankner, Rishab Parthasarathy, Aniruddha Nrusimha, Christopher Rinard, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, William Brandon
- COLM
- Readers: Everyone
Perplexed by Perplexity: Perplexity-Based Pruning with Small Reference Models
Zachary Ankner, Cody Blakeney, Kartik Sreenivasan, Max Marion, Matthew L Leavitt, Mansheej Paul
- ME-FoMo 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Effect of Data Dimensionality on Neural Network Prunability
Zachary Ankner, Alex Renda, Gintare Karolina Dziugaite, Jonathan Frankle, Tian Jin
- Published: 06 Dec 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- ICBINB poster
- Readers: Everyone

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