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cs.CL2025★ 7 cited

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…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition

Nina Panickssery, Nick Gabrieli, Julian Schulz +3

We introduce Contrastive Activation Addition (CAA), an innovative method for steering language models by modifying their activations during forward passes. CAA computes "steering v…

cs.CL2023★ 130 cited

Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models

Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Tomasz Korbak +16

Human feedback is commonly utilized to finetune AI assistants. But human feedback may also encourage model responses that match user beliefs over truthful ones, a behaviour known a…

cs.CL2023★ 32 cited

The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"

Lukas Berglund, Meg Tong, Max Kaufmann +4

We expose a surprising failure of generalization in auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). If a model is trained on a sentence of the form "A is B", it will not automaticall…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

Taken out of context: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs

Lukas Berglund, Asa Cooper Stickland, Mikita Balesni +5

We aim to better understand the emergence of `situational awareness' in large language models (LLMs). A model is situationally aware if it's aware that it's a model and can recogni…