--- title: "Avi Schwarzschild — author profile and papers" description: "Avi Schwarzschild: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avi-schwarzschild/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avi-schwarzschild/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Avi Schwarzschild # Avi Schwarzschild 2 papers on this site · 2023–2024 Avi Schwarzschild has 2 papers on this site, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [J. Zico Kolter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/j-zico-kolter/), [John Kirchenbauer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-kirchenbauer/), [Jonas Geiping](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonas-geiping/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5026712341) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0997-4867) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5026712341) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026712341) · [1 008 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026712341&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avi-schwarzschild/#papers) · [465 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avi-schwarzschild/cited-by/) · 4 more works in our library The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Avi+Schwarzschild) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Avi+Schwarzschild) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Avi+Schwarzschild) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Avi+Schwarzschild) ## Affiliations - [Carnegie Mellon University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · Pittsburgh, United States —2023–2025 on 9 papers - [University of Maryland, College Park](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · College Park, United States —2019–2023 on 17 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maini-2024-tofu-task-fictitious-unlearning-llms/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jain-2023-baseline-defenses-adversarial-attacks-against/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Baseline Defenses for Adversarial Attacks Against Aligned Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jain-2023-baseline-defenses-adversarial-attacks-against/)** *(2023 · 224 citations)* Optimization-based jailbreaks, especially the universal, transferable suffix attack (GCG) of Zou et al. (2023), can automatically generate prompts that bypass the safety alignment of chat LLMs. These prompts can be crafted on open models and then used against API-only systems. The authors ask whether standard defense… 2. **[TOFU: A Task of Fictitious Unlearning for LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maini-2024-tofu-task-fictitious-unlearning-llms/)** *(2024 · 133 citations)* LLMs can memorize and reveal private details about people. "Unlearning" means adjusting a trained model so it forgets particular data. However, it has been hard to tell whether existing unlearning methods produce a model that behaves like one that never saw that data. TOFU (Task of Fictitious Unlearning) addresses… ## Also in our library 4 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [J. Zico Kolter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/j-zico-kolter/) - [John Kirchenbauer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-kirchenbauer/) - [Jonas Geiping](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonas-geiping/) - [Tom Goldstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-goldstein/) - [Yuxin Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxin-wen/) - [Zachary C. Lipton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-c-lipton/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 465 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [23 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avi-schwarzschild/cited-by/).