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Sycophantic Agreement Transfers with Neutral Data via Contrastive Preference Optimization
Camila Blank, Zhuofan Ying, Christopher Potts +2
Sycophantic agreement refers to a behavior in which language models excessively affirm the user, often at the cost of factual accuracy. Although sycophantic agreement is a well-kno…
Why Larger Models Learn More: Effects of Capacity, Interference, and Rare-Task Retention
Jing Huang, Daniel Wurgaft, Rachit Bansal +6
Larger models learn tasks smaller models do not. What drives this phenomenon? We develop a simple phenomenological argument that power-law scaling already suggests that a larger mo…
Blackbox Model Provenance via Palimpsestic Membership Inference
Rohith Kuditipudi, Jing Huang, Sally Zhu +3
Suppose Alice trains an open-weight language model and Bob uses a blackbox derivative of Alice's model to produce text. Can Alice prove that Bob is using her model, either by query…
Internal Causal Mechanisms Robustly Predict Language Model Out-of-Distribution Behaviors
Jing Huang, Junyi Tao, Thomas Icard +2
Interpretability research now offers a variety of techniques for identifying abstract internal mechanisms in neural networks. Can such techniques be used to predict how models will…
MIB: A Mechanistic Interpretability Benchmark
Aaron Mueller, Atticus Geiger, Sarah Wiegreffe +20
How can we know whether new mechanistic interpretability methods achieve real improvements? In pursuit of lasting evaluation standards, we propose MIB, a Mechanistic Interpretabili…
pyvene: A Library for Understanding and Improving PyTorch Models via Interventions
Zhengxuan Wu, Atticus Geiger, Aryaman Arora +5
Interventions on model-internal states are fundamental operations in many areas of AI, including model editing, steering, robustness, and interpretability. To facilitate such resea…
A Reply to Makelov et al. (2023)'s "Interpretability Illusion" Arguments
Zhengxuan Wu, Atticus Geiger, Jing Huang +4
We respond to the recent paper by Makelov et al. (2023), which reviews subspace interchange intervention methods like distributed alignment search (DAS; Geiger et al. 2023) and cla…