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cs.CL2024

Two Heads are Better than One: Nested PoE for Robust Defense Against Multi-Backdoors

Victoria Graf, Qin Liu, Muhao Chen

Data poisoning backdoor attacks can cause undesirable behaviors in large language models (LLMs), and defending against them is of increasing importance. Existing defense mechanisms…

cs.CL2026

TurnWise: The Gap between Single- and Multi-turn Language Model Capabilities

Victoria Graf, Valentina Pyatkin, Nouha Dziri +2

Multi-turn conversations are a common and critical mode of language model interaction. However, current open training and evaluation data focus on single-turn settings, failing to…

cs.CL2026

Olmo 3

Team Olmo, :, Allyson Ettinger +66

We introduce Olmo 3, a family of state-of-the-art, fully-open language models at the 7B and 32B parameter scales. Olmo 3 model construction targets long-context reasoning, function…

cs.CL2025

Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following

Valentina Pyatkin, Saumya Malik, Victoria Graf +5

A crucial factor for successful human and AI interaction is the ability of language models or chatbots to follow human instructions precisely. A common feature of instructions are…

cs.CL2025

Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training

Nathan Lambert, Jacob Morrison, Valentina Pyatkin +20

Language model post-training is applied to refine behaviors and unlock new skills across a wide range of recent language models, but open recipes for applying these techniques lag…

cs.CL2023

C-STS: Conditional Semantic Textual Similarity

Ameet Deshpande, Carlos E. Jimenez, Howard Chen +6

Semantic textual similarity (STS), a cornerstone task in NLP, measures the degree of similarity between a pair of sentences, and has broad application in fields such as information…

cs.AI2026

Pretraining Data Can Be Poisoned through Computational Propaganda

Victoria Graf, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Noah A. Smith +2

The paper shows that language model pretraining data can be poisoned through publicly editable web discussion pages, and introduces a method called HalfLife to estimate how much ma…

#data poisoning#language model pretraining#web crawling#adversarial attacks