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cs.CL2026
MENTIS: What Belief Changes Under Alignment? Measuring Multi-Scale Latent Torsion in Language Models
Partha Pratim Saha, Samarth Raina, Mayur Parvatikar +4
Preference alignment has substantially improved the observable behavior of large language models, yet it remains unclear what alignment changes internally. Aligned systems still fa…
cs.LG2025
D-STEER - Preference Alignment Techniques Learn to Behave, not to Believe -- Beneath the Surface, DPO as Steering Vector Perturbation in Activation Space
Samarth Raina, Saksham Aggarwal, Aman Chadha +2
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has become a standard recipe for aligning large language models, yet it is still unclear what kind of change it actually induces inside the net…