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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…
Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming
Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Jesse Mu +40
Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to universal jailbreaks-prompting strategies that systematically bypass model safeguards and enable users to carry out harmful processes…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In-context Learning and Induction Heads
Catherine Olsson, Nelson Elhage, Neel Nanda +23
"Induction heads" are attention heads that implement a simple algorithm to complete token sequences like [A][B] ... [A] -> [B]. In this work, we present preliminary and indirect ev…
Toy Models of Superposition
Nelson Elhage, Tristan Hume, Catherine Olsson +13
Neural networks often pack many unrelated concepts into a single neuron - a puzzling phenomenon known as 'polysemanticity' which makes interpretability much more challenging. This…
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…
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…
Scaling Laws and Interpretability of Learning from Repeated Data
Danny Hernandez, Tom Brown, Tom Conerly +15
Recent large language models have been trained on vast datasets, but also often on repeated data, either intentionally for the purpose of upweighting higher quality data, or uninte…
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…
Predictability and Surprise in Large Generative Models
Deep Ganguli, Danny Hernandez, Liane Lovitt +27
Large-scale pre-training has recently emerged as a technique for creating capable, general purpose, generative models such as GPT-3, Megatron-Turing NLG, Gopher, and many others. I…
A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment
Amanda Askell, Yuntao Bai, Anna Chen +19
Given the broad capabilities of large language models, it should be possible to work towards a general-purpose, text-based assistant that is aligned with human values, meaning that…
Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning
OpenAI, :, Christopher Berner +24
On April 13th, 2019, OpenAI Five became the first AI system to defeat the world champions at an esports game. The game of Dota 2 presents novel challenges for AI systems such as lo…
Discriminator Rejection Sampling
Samaneh Azadi, Catherine Olsson, Trevor Darrell +2
We propose a rejection sampling scheme using the discriminator of a GAN to approximately correct errors in the GAN generator distribution. We show that under quite strict assumptio…
Unrestricted Adversarial Examples
Tom B. Brown, Nicholas Carlini, Chiyuan Zhang +3
We introduce a two-player contest for evaluating the safety and robustness of machine learning systems, with a large prize pool. Unlike most prior work in ML robustness, which stud…
Skill Rating for Generative Models
Catherine Olsson, Surya Bhupatiraju, Tom Brown +2
We explore a new way to evaluate generative models using insights from evaluation of competitive games between human players. We show experimentally that tournaments between genera…
Is Generator Conditioning Causally Related to GAN Performance?
Augustus Odena, Jacob Buckman, Catherine Olsson +4
Recent work (Pennington et al, 2017) suggests that controlling the entire distribution of Jacobian singular values is an important design consideration in deep learning. Motivated…