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Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
Adly Templeton, Tom Conerly, Jonathan Marcus +23
We demonstrate that sparse autoencoders can extract interpretable features from Claude 3 Sonnet, a production-scale language model, addressing the open question of whether dictiona…
Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model
Nicholas Sofroniew, Isaac Kauvar, William Saunders +13
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-releva…
RTTC: Reward-Guided Collaborative Test-Time Compute
J. Pablo Muñoz, Jinjie Yuan
Test-Time Compute (TTC) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) at inference, leveraging strategies such as Test-Time Train…
Assay2Mol: large language model-based drug design using BioAssay context
Yifan Deng, Spencer S. Ericksen, Anthony Gitter
Scientific databases aggregate vast amounts of quantitative data alongside descriptive text. In biochemistry, molecule screening assays evaluate candidate molecules' functional res…
Jailbreak Distillation: Renewable Safety Benchmarking
Jingyu Zhang, Ahmed Elgohary, Xiawei Wang +5
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly deployed in critical applications, raising urgent needs for robust safety benchmarking. We propose Jailbreak Distillation (JBDistill), a no…
SEA-LION: Southeast Asian Languages in One Network
Raymond Ng, Thanh Ngan Nguyen, Yuli Huang +28
Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated much of the artificial intelligence scene with their ability to process and generate natural languages. However, the majority…
Auditing language models for hidden objectives
Samuel Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Trenton Bricken +32
We study the feasibility of conducting alignment audits: investigations into whether models have undesired objectives. As a testbed, we train a language model with a hidden objecti…
Sleepless Nights, Sugary Days: Creating Synthetic Users with Health Conditions for Realistic Coaching Agent Interactions
Taedong Yun, Eric Yang, Mustafa Safdari +13
We present an end-to-end framework for generating synthetic users for evaluating interactive agents designed to encourage positive behavior changes, such as in health and lifestyle…
Naive Bayes-based Context Extension for Large Language Models
Jianlin Su, Murtadha Ahmed, Wenbo +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising in-context learning abilities. However, conventional In-Context Learning (ICL) approaches are often impeded by length limitations…
Assessing biomedical knowledge robustness in large language models by query-efficient sampling attacks
R. Patrick Xian, Alex J. Lee, Satvik Lolla +4
The increasing depth of parametric domain knowledge in large language models (LLMs) is fueling their rapid deployment in real-world applications. Understanding model vulnerabilitie…
Specific versus General Principles for Constitutional AI
Sandipan Kundu, Yuntao Bai, Saurav Kadavath +33
Human feedback can prevent overtly harmful utterances in conversational models, but may not automatically mitigate subtle problematic behaviors such as a stated desire for self-pre…
Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Tamera Lanham, Anna Chen, Ansh Radhakrishnan +27
Large language models (LLMs) perform better when they produce step-by-step, "Chain-of-Thought" (CoT) reasoning before answering a question, but it is unclear if the stated reasonin…
The Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models
Deep Ganguli, Amanda Askell, Nicholas Schiefer +46
We test the hypothesis that language models trained with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) have the capability to "morally self-correct" -- to avoid producing harmf…
Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations
Ethan Perez, Sam Ringer, Kamilė Lukošiūtė +60
As language models (LMs) scale, they develop many novel behaviors, good and bad, exacerbating the need to evaluate how they behave. Prior work creates evaluations with crowdwork (w…
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Yuntao Bai, Saurav Kadavath, Sandipan Kundu +48
As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs. We experiment with methods for training a harmless AI assistant through self-improveme…
Measuring Progress on Scalable Oversight for Large Language Models
Samuel R. Bowman, Jeeyoon Hyun, Ethan Perez +43
Developing safe and useful general-purpose AI systems will require us to make progress on scalable oversight: the problem of supervising systems that potentially outperform us on m…
In-context Learning and Induction Heads
Catherine Olsson, Nelson Elhage, Neel Nanda +23
"Induction heads" are attention heads that implement a simple algorithm to complete token sequences like [A][B] ... [A] -> [B]. In this work, we present preliminary and indirect ev…
Toy Models of Superposition
Nelson Elhage, Tristan Hume, Catherine Olsson +13
Neural networks often pack many unrelated concepts into a single neuron - a puzzling phenomenon known as 'polysemanticity' which makes interpretability much more challenging. This…
Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms: Methods, Scaling Behaviors, and Lessons Learned
Deep Ganguli, Liane Lovitt, Jackson Kernion +33
We describe our early efforts to red team language models in order to simultaneously discover, measure, and attempt to reduce their potentially harmful outputs. We make three main…
Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know
Saurav Kadavath, Tom Conerly, Amanda Askell +33
We study whether language models can evaluate the validity of their own claims and predict which questions they will be able to answer correctly. We first show that larger models a…
Scaling Laws and Interpretability of Learning from Repeated Data
Danny Hernandez, Tom Brown, Tom Conerly +15
Recent large language models have been trained on vast datasets, but also often on repeated data, either intentionally for the purpose of upweighting higher quality data, or uninte…
Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Yuntao Bai, Andy Jones, Kamal Ndousse +28
We apply preference modeling and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to finetune language models to act as helpful and harmless assistants. We find this alignment tra…
Predictability and Surprise in Large Generative Models
Deep Ganguli, Danny Hernandez, Liane Lovitt +27
Large-scale pre-training has recently emerged as a technique for creating capable, general purpose, generative models such as GPT-3, Megatron-Turing NLG, Gopher, and many others. I…
A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment
Amanda Askell, Yuntao Bai, Anna Chen +19
Given the broad capabilities of large language models, it should be possible to work towards a general-purpose, text-based assistant that is aligned with human values, meaning that…