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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…
Do Language Models Consistently Encode the Current Year?
Suze van Adrichem, Aditi Bhaskar, Diyi Yang +2
A consistent concept of the current time is important for temporal reasoning, yet how language models represent the current time is not well understood. We contribute two tasks tha…
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…