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Teaching Pretrained Language Models to Think Deeper with Retrofitted Recurrence
Sean McLeish, Ang Li, John Kirchenbauer +7
Recent advances in depth-recurrent language models show that recurrence can decouple train-time compute and parameter count from test-time compute. In this work, we study how to co…
Toward Understanding the Transferability of Adversarial Suffixes in Large Language Models
Sarah Ball, Niki Hasrati, Alexander Robey +4
Discrete optimization-based jailbreaking attacks on large language models aim to generate short, nonsensical suffixes that, when appended onto input prompts, elicit disallowed cont…
Command-V: Pasting LLM Behaviors via Activation Profiles
Barry Wang, Avi Schwarzschild, Alexander Robey +4
Retrofitting large language models (LLMs) with new behaviors typically requires full finetuning or distillation-costly steps that must be repeated for every architecture. In this w…
Extrapolation by Association: Length Generalization Transfer in Transformers
Ziyang Cai, Nayoung Lee, Avi Schwarzschild +2
Transformer language models have demonstrated impressive generalization capabilities in natural language domains, yet we lack a fine-grained understanding of how such generalizatio…
Existing Large Language Model Unlearning Evaluations Are Inconclusive
Zhili Feng, Yixuan Even Xu, Alexander Robey +5
Machine unlearning aims to remove sensitive or undesired data from large language models. However, recent studies suggest that unlearning is often shallow, claiming that removed kn…
RAG LLMs are Not Safer: A Safety Analysis of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models
Bang An, Shiyue Zhang, Mark Dredze
Efforts to ensure the safety of large language models (LLMs) include safety fine-tuning, evaluation, and red teaming. However, despite the widespread use of the Retrieval-Augmented…
Antidistillation Sampling
Yash Savani, Asher Trockman, Zhili Feng +5
Frontier models that generate extended reasoning traces inadvertently produce rich token sequences that can facilitate model distillation. Recognizing this vulnerability, model own…
Has My System Prompt Been Used? Large Language Model Prompt Membership Inference
Roman Levin, Valeriia Cherepanova, Abhimanyu Hans +2
Prompt engineering has emerged as a powerful technique for optimizing large language models (LLMs) for specific applications, enabling faster prototyping and improved performance,…
Self-Improving Transformers Overcome Easy-to-Hard and Length Generalization Challenges
Nayoung Lee, Ziyang Cai, Avi Schwarzschild +2
Large language models often struggle with length generalization and solving complex problem instances beyond their training distribution. We present a self-improvement approach whe…