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20192026
most citedTraining a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

391 citations · 1.9k across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CL2026

PolyAlign: Conditional Human-Distribution Alignment

L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Ufaq Khan, Sathira Silva +2

Post-training methods such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and preference optimization typically align language models toward a single global assistant behavior. While effective fo…

cs.LG2025

Out-of-Distribution Detection Methods Answer the Wrong Questions

Yucen Lily Li, Daohan Lu, Polina Kirichenko +4

To detect distribution shifts and improve model safety, many out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods rely on the predictive uncertainty or features of supervised models trained…

cs.CL2025

CoLD: Counterfactually-Guided Length Debiasing for Process Reward Models in Mathematical Reasoning

Congmin Zheng, Jiachen Zhu, Jianghao Lin +6

Process Reward Models (PRMs) play a central role in evaluating and guiding multi-step reasoning in large language models (LLMs), especially for mathematical problem solving. Howeve…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Linear Steering: Unified Multi-Attribute Control for Language Models

Narmeen Oozeer, Luke Marks, Shreyans Jain +2

Controlling multiple behavioral attributes in large language models (LLMs) at inference time is a challenging problem due to interference between attributes and the limitations of…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

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…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

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…

cs.AI2023★ 29 cited

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…

cs.CL2023★ 53 cited

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…

cs.CL2022★ 52 cited

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…

cs.CL2022★ 334 cited

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…

cs.LG2022

DeepChrome 2.0: Investigating and Improving Architectures, Visualizations, & Experiments

Saurav Kadavath, Samuel Paradis, Jacob Yeung

Histone modifications play a critical role in gene regulation. Consequently, predicting gene expression from histone modification signals is a highly motivated problem in epigeneti…

cs.CL2022★ 119 cited

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…

cs.CL2022★ 170 cited

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…

cs.CL2022★ 391 cited

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…

cs.LG2021

Pretraining & Reinforcement Learning: Sharpening the Axe Before Cutting the Tree

Saurav Kadavath, Samuel Paradis, Brian Yao

Pretraining is a common technique in deep learning for increasing performance and reducing training time, with promising experimental results in deep reinforcement learning (RL). H…

cs.SE2021★ 144 cited

Measuring Coding Challenge Competence With APPS

Dan Hendrycks, Steven Basart, Saurav Kadavath +8

While programming is one of the most broadly applicable skills in modern society, modern machine learning models still cannot code solutions to basic problems. Despite its importan…

cs.LG2021★ 280 cited

Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset

Dan Hendrycks, Collin Burns, Saurav Kadavath +5

Many intellectual endeavors require mathematical problem solving, but this skill remains beyond the capabilities of computers. To measure this ability in machine learning models, w…

cs.CV2020★ 19 cited

The Many Faces of Robustness: A Critical Analysis of Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Dan Hendrycks, Steven Basart, Norman Mu +10

We introduce four new real-world distribution shift datasets consisting of changes in image style, image blurriness, geographic location, camera operation, and more. With our new d…

cs.LG2019★ 337 cited

Using Self-Supervised Learning Can Improve Model Robustness and Uncertainty

Dan Hendrycks, Mantas Mazeika, Saurav Kadavath +1

Self-supervision provides effective representations for downstream tasks without requiring labels. However, existing approaches lag behind fully supervised training and are often n…