Jan-Philipp Fränken

Jan-Philipp Fränken has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Reasoning; often with Rafael Rafailov, Alon Albalak, Chase Blagden.

4 papers in our library · 2024–2025

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Generative Reward Models (2024 · 58 citations)
Reward models trained with the Bradley-Terry objective on human preference pairs score well on familiar data but generalize poorly to unseen tasks.
Towards System 2 Reasoning in LLMs: Learning How to Think With Meta Chain-of-Thought (2025 · 47 citations)
Large language models handle routine math well but still fail on harder problems. The authors argue that ordinary Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is part of the cause. Written solutions in training data show only the polished final derivation. They omit the hidden, non-linear work of trying options, checking them and…
STaR-GATE: Teaching Language Models to Ask Clarifying Questions (2024 · 43 citations)
Users often phrase their requests to a language model incompletely, so the model responds generically and ignores their preferences.
Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information: Learning to Follow Principles without Preference Labels (2024 · 16 citations)
Teaching a language model to respect a set of behavioral rules (a "constitution") usually depends on human preference labels, curated demonstrations, or reward models with reinforcement learning.

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Updated 3 November 2026