Madelyn Sarbin

Transit Inequality in the Denver Metro Area

We measured how many jobs Denver residents can reach by bus and rail — and whether the people who depend most on transit actually get the best service. Across 657 census tracts, the answer is largely yes, but the overall picture is still deeply unequal.

Attention Alignment Outperforms Logit Distillation for LLM Compression

When compressing a large language model into a smaller one, should you just teach the small model to match the large model's outputs — or also show it what the large model is paying attention to? We ran the comparison systematically and found that attention maps transfer surprisingly well, cutting error rates by 26%. But combining attention with other internal signals adds nothing.