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Sumeet Motwani

Sumeet Motwani

PhD student, co-supervised

University of Oxford

Co-supervised with Prof. Philip Torr

Google Scholar

Education

DPhil, University of Oxford, ongoing

Publications with the lab

Full publication list on Google Scholar.

  1. 2026
    LongCoT: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Chain-of-Thought ReasoningS. R. Motwani, D. Nichols, Charlie London, P. Li, and others
    ICML 2026Paper
  2. 2026
    AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary CapabilitiesA. Draguns, S. R. Motwani, R. Douglas, C. Schroeder de Witt
    Preprint
  3. 2026
    h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement LearningA. Ivanova*, S. R. Motwani*, Z. Cai, P. Torr, R. Islam, S. Shah, C. Schroeder de Witt†, Charlie London (* equal contribution, † joint supervision)
    ICML 2026Paper
  4. 2026
    Rubric Curriculum RL: Exploiting the Generation-Verification Gap in Non-Verifiable DomainsT. Krishnan*, S. R. Motwani*, C. London, S. M. Bhat, H. Jiao, P. Torr, R. Islam, C. Summerfield, C. Schroeder de Witt, Q. Gu, S. Shah (* equal contribution)
    ICML 2026
  5. 2025
    MALT: Improving Reasoning with Multi-Agent LLM TrainingS. R. Motwani, C. Smith, R. J. Das, R. Rafailov, I. Laptev, P. H. S. Torr, F. Pizzati, R. Clark, C. Schroeder de Witt
    COLM 2025Paper
  6. 2025
    REAL: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Deterministic Simulations of Real WebsitesD. Garg, D. Caples, A. Draguns, N. Ravi, P. Putta, N. Garg, P. Hebbar, and others, C. Schroeder de Witt, S. Motwani
    NeurIPS 2025Paper
  7. 2024
    Secret Collusion among AI Agents: Multi-Agent Deception via SteganographyS. R. Motwani, M. Baranchuk, M. Strohmeier, V. Bolina, P. H. S. Torr, L. Hammond, C. Schroeder de Witt
    NeurIPS 2024Paper
  8. 2024
    Unelicitable Backdoors in Language Models via Cryptographic Transformer CircuitsA. Draguns*, A. Gritsevskiy*, S. R. Motwani, C. Rogers-Smith, J. Ladish, C. Schroeder de Witt (* equal contribution)
    NeurIPS 2024Paper