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Publications (22)

cs.CY2024

Risks from Language Models for Automated Mental Healthcare: Ethics and Structure for Implementation

Declan Grabb, Max Lamparth, Nina Vasan

Amidst the growing interest in developing task-autonomous AI for automated mental health care, this paper addresses the ethical and practical challenges associated with the issue a…

cs.CY2026

On the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models: Guideline, Assessment, and Perspective

Yue Huang, Chujie Gao, Siyuan Wu +63

Generative Foundation Models (GenFMs) have emerged as transformative tools. However, their widespread adoption raises critical concerns regarding trustworthiness across dimensions.…

cs.LG2024

Analyzing And Editing Inner Mechanisms Of Backdoored Language Models

Max Lamparth, Anka Reuel

Poisoning of data sets is a potential security threat to large language models that can lead to backdoored models. A description of the internal mechanisms of backdoored language m…

cs.CL2026

One Bias After Another: Mechanistic Reward Shaping and Persistent Biases in Language Reward Models

Daniel Fein, Max Lamparth, Violet Xiang +2

Reward Models (RMs) are crucial for online alignment of language models (LMs) with human preferences. However, RM-based preference-tuning is vulnerable to reward hacking, whereby L…

cs.CL2024

Measuring Free-Form Decision-Making Inconsistency of Language Models in Military Crisis Simulations

Aryan Shrivastava, Jessica Hullman, Max Lamparth

There is an increasing interest in using language models (LMs) for automated decision-making, with multiple countries actively testing LMs to aid in military crisis decision-making…

physics.ins-det2022

Toward the End-to-End Optimization of Particle Physics Instruments with Differentiable Programming: a White Paper

Tommaso Dorigo, Andrea Giammanco, Pietro Vischia +33

The full optimization of the design and operation of instruments whose functioning relies on the interaction of radiation with matter is a super-human task, given the large dimensi…