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most citedOpen Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

95 citations · 150 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.AI2026

OpenAI-HuggingFace: A Reproduction & Lessons for Alignment Testing

Stewart Slocum, Malayandi Palan, Christopher Chute +2

In July 2026, OpenAI's agents coordinated over channels outside their intended environment to breach Hugging Face's secured infrastructure. Could existing alignment testing practic…

cs.CL2025

Diverse Preference Learning for Capabilities and Alignment

Stewart Slocum, Asher Parker-Sartori, Dylan Hadfield-Menell

The ability of LLMs to represent diverse perspectives is critical as they increasingly impact society. However, recent studies reveal that alignment algorithms such as RLHF and DPO…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Binary Rewards: Training LMs to Reason About Their Uncertainty

Mehul Damani, Isha Puri, Stewart Slocum +4

When language models (LMs) are trained via reinforcement learning (RL) to generate natural language "reasoning chains", their performance improves on a variety of difficult questio…

cs.SE2025★ 6 cited

The AI Agent Index

Stephen Casper, Luke Bailey, Rosco Hunter +12

Leading AI developers and startups are increasingly deploying agentic AI systems that can plan and execute complex tasks with limited human involvement. However, there is currently…

cs.CR2025

Model Tampering Attacks Enable More Rigorous Evaluations of LLM Capabilities

Zora Che, Stephen Casper, Robert Kirk +12

Evaluations of large language model (LLM) risks and capabilities are increasingly being incorporated into AI risk management and governance frameworks. Currently, most risk evaluat…

cs.AI2023★ 95 cited

Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Stephen Casper, Xander Davies, Claudia Shi +29

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a technique for training AI systems to align with human goals. RLHF has emerged as the central method used to finetune state-of…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Interpretable by Design: Learning Predictors by Composing Interpretable Queries

Aditya Chattopadhyay, Stewart Slocum, Benjamin D. Haeffele +2

There is a growing concern about typically opaque decision-making with high-performance machine learning algorithms. Providing an explanation of the reasoning process in domain-spe…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

Disks in Nearby Young Stellar Associations Found Via Virtual Reality

Susan Higashio, Marc J. Kuchner, Steven M. Silverberg +24

The Disk Detective citizen science project recently released a new catalog of disk candidates found by visual inspection of images from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (…

cs.LG2020★ 39 cited

AdaLead: A simple and robust adaptive greedy search algorithm for sequence design

Sam Sinai, Richard Wang, Alexander Whatley +3

Efficient design of biological sequences will have a great impact across many industrial and healthcare domains. However, discovering improved sequences requires solving a difficul…