4 papers
SAE-StatSteer: Statistical Consensus Feature Selection for Optimization-Free Activation Steering of Large Language Models
Oshayer Siddique, J. M Areeb Uzair Alam, Md Jobayer Rahman Rafy +3
Activation steering adds a residual-stream direction at inference time, providing lightweight behavioral control without fine-tuning. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) can make such inter…
Can Generative AI help people navigate Radical Moral Disagreements? The CONSIDER prototype
William Hohnen-Ford, Sarah Chen, Kathryn B. Francis +3
Radical Moral Disagreements (RMDs) are highly polarising topics that are increasingly censored in everyday life, with growing evidence suggesting that this polarisation carries mea…
Rethinking Word Similarity: Semantic Similarity through Classification Confusion
Kaitlyn Zhou, Haishan Gao, Sarah Chen +3
Word similarity has many applications to social science and cultural analytics tasks like measuring meaning change over time and making sense of contested terms. Yet traditional si…
Model Editing with Canonical Examples
John Hewitt, Sarah Chen, Lanruo Lora Xie +3
We introduce model editing with canonical examples, a setting in which (1) a single learning example is provided per desired behavior, (2) evaluation is performed exclusively out-o…