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cs.LG2026

Analyzing and Improving Chain-of-Thought Monitorability Through Information Theory

Usman Anwar, Tim Bakker, Dana Kianfar +2

Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitors are LLM-based systems that analyze reasoning traces to detect when outputs may exhibit attributes of interest, such as test-hacking behavior during…

cs.LG2025

Mitigating Goal Misgeneralization via Minimax Regret

Karim Abdel Sadek, Matthew Farrugia-Roberts, Usman Anwar +4

Safe generalization in reinforcement learning requires not only that a learned policy acts capably in new situations, but also that it uses its capabilities towards the pursuit of…

cs.LG2025

Interpreting Emergent Planning in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

Thomas Bush, Stephen Chung, Usman Anwar +2

We present the first mechanistic evidence that model-free reinforcement learning agents can learn to plan. This is achieved by applying a methodology based on concept-based interpr…

cs.LG2024

Learning to Forget using Hypernetworks

Jose Miguel Lara Rangel, Stefan Schoepf, Jack Foster +2

Machine unlearning is gaining increasing attention as a way to remove adversarial data poisoning attacks from already trained models and to comply with privacy and AI regulations.…

cs.LG2024

Comparing Bottom-Up and Top-Down Steering Approaches on In-Context Learning Tasks

Madeline Brumley, Joe Kwon, David Krueger +2

A key objective of interpretability research on large language models (LLMs) is to develop methods for robustly steering models toward desired behaviors. To this end, two distinct…

cs.LG2024

Noisy Zero-Shot Coordination: Breaking The Common Knowledge Assumption In Zero-Shot Coordination Games

Usman Anwar, Ashish Pandian, Jia Wan +2

Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) is a popular setting for studying the ability of reinforcement learning (RL) agents to coordinate with novel partners. Prior ZSC formulations assume th…