Blake Ledden

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  • Adapting Noisy Student to the LLM Era: Four Experiments in Self-Training

    Feb 4, 2026

  • The Distribution Cliff: Why Hybrid Distillation Fails on Decoder-Only LLMs

    Jan 2, 2026

  • Teaching AI to Embody Characters: A Replication of Open Character Training

    Jan 1, 2026

  • Empirically Validating the Information-Theoretic Gap Between SL and RL

    Jan 1, 2026

  • Constitutional AI from Base Models: Can You Train Safety Without Instruction Tuning?

    Jan 1, 2026

  • GAN-Style Training for Jokes: When Metrics Lie

    Jan 1, 2026

  • Seven Patterns From 300+ ML Evaluation Runs

    Dec 31, 2025

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