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Efficient Prediction of Pass@k Scaling in Large Language Models
Joshua Kazdan, Rylan Schaeffer, Youssef Allouah +4
Assessing the capabilities and risks of frontier AI systems is a critical area of research, and recent work has shown that repeated sampling from models can dramatically increase b…
Understanding Adversarial Transfer: Why Representation-Space Attacks Fail Where Data-Space Attacks Succeed
Isha Gupta, Rylan Schaeffer, Joshua Kazdan +2
The field of adversarial robustness has long established that adversarial examples can successfully transfer between image classifiers and that text jailbreaks can successfully tra…
Evaluating the Robustness of Chinchilla Compute-Optimal Scaling
Rylan Schaeffer, Noam Levi, Andreas Kirsch +4
Hoffman et al (2022)'s Chinchilla paper introduced the principle of compute-optimal scaling, laying a foundation for future scaling of language models. In the years since, however,…
No, of Course I Can! Deeper Fine-Tuning Attacks That Bypass Token-Level Safety Mechanisms
Joshua Kazdan, Abhay Puri, Rylan Schaeffer +5
Leading language model (LM) providers like OpenAI and Anthropic allow customers to fine-tune frontier LMs for specific use cases. To prevent abuse, these providers apply filters to…
Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track
Rylan Schaeffer, Joshua Kazdan, Yegor Denisov-Blanch +11
Science progresses by iteratively advancing and correcting humanity's understanding of the world. In machine learning (ML) research, rapid advancements have led to an explosion of…
Beyond Scale: The Diversity Coefficient as a Data Quality Metric for Variability in Natural Language Data
Brando Miranda, Alycia Lee, Sudharsan Sundar +4
Current trends in pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily focus on the scaling of model and dataset size. While the quality of pre-training data is considered an import…