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Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Tomasz Korbak +16
Human feedback is commonly utilized to finetune AI assistants. But human feedback may also encourage model responses that match user beliefs over truthful ones, a behaviour known a…
Values in the Wild: Discovering and Analyzing Values in Real-World Language Model Interactions
Saffron Huang, Esin Durmus, Miles McCain +7
AI assistants can impart value judgments that shape people's decisions and worldviews, yet little is known empirically about what values these systems rely on in practice. To addre…
PERSONA: A Reproducible Testbed for Pluralistic Alignment
Louis Castricato, Nathan Lile, Rafael Rafailov +2
The rapid advancement of language models (LMs) necessitates robust alignment with diverse user values. However, current preference optimization approaches often fail to capture the…
When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards
Norah Alzahrani, Hisham Abdullah Alyahya, Yazeed Alnumay +9
Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are take…
Towards Measuring the Representation of Subjective Global Opinions in Language Models
Esin Durmus, Karina Nguyen, Thomas I. Liao +15
Large language models (LLMs) may not equitably represent diverse global perspectives on societal issues. In this paper, we develop a quantitative framework to evaluate whose opinio…
NLP Systems That Can't Tell Use from Mention Censor Counterspeech, but Teaching the Distinction Helps
Kristina Gligoric, Myra Cheng, Lucia Zheng +2
The use of words to convey speaker's intent is traditionally distinguished from the `mention' of words for quoting what someone said, or pointing out properties of a word. Here we…