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most citedRepresentation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

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cs.LG2025

Just Read the Question: Enabling Generalization to New Assessment Items with Text Awareness

Arisha Khan, Nathaniel Li, Tori Shen +1

Machine learning has been proposed as a way to improve educational assessment by making fine-grained predictions about student performance and learning relationships between items.…

cs.LG2025★ 23 cited

Humanity's Last Exam

Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han +1168

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achi…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

LLM Defenses Are Not Robust to Multi-Turn Human Jailbreaks Yet

Nathaniel Li, Ziwen Han, Ian Steneker +6

Recent large language model (LLM) defenses have greatly improved models' ability to refuse harmful queries, even when adversarially attacked. However, LLM defenses are primarily ev…

cs.LG2024★ 13 cited

The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning

Nathaniel Li, Alexander Pan, Anjali Gopal +54

The White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence highlights the risks of large language models (LLMs) empowering malicious actors in developing biological, cyber, and che…

cs.LG2024★ 23 cited

HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Automated Red Teaming and Robust Refusal

Mantas Mazeika, Long Phan, Xuwang Yin +9

Automated red teaming holds substantial promise for uncovering and mitigating the risks associated with the malicious use of large language models (LLMs), yet the field lacks a sta…

cs.LG2023★ 65 cited

Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

Andy Zou, Long Phan, Sarah Chen +18

In this paper, we identify and characterize the emerging area of representation engineering (RepE), an approach to enhancing the transparency of AI systems that draws on insights f…

cs.LG2023★ 28 cited

Do the Rewards Justify the Means? Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the MACHIAVELLI Benchmark

Alexander Pan, Jun Shern Chan, Andy Zou +7

Artificial agents have traditionally been trained to maximize reward, which may incentivize power-seeking and deception, analogous to how next-token prediction in language models (…