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most citedEmergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

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cs.LG2026

Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors

Jan Dubiński, Anna Sztyber-Betley, Jan Betley +1

In subliminal learning (SL), a teacher model passes on a trait to a student model by distillation on data semantically unrelated to the trait. So far, SL has been demonstrated for…

cs.LG2026

Value Leakage: An LLM's Answers Are Silently Shaped by Its Own Values

Jan Betley, Johannes Treutlein, Jan Dubiński +5

People use language models for practical questions whose answers are difficult to verify. We show that models exhibit covert value leakage: the information they provide is influenc…

cs.LG2026

Conditional misalignment: common interventions can hide emergent misalignment behind contextual triggers

Jan Dubiński, Jan Betley, Anna Sztyber-Betley +2

Finetuning a language model can lead to emergent misalignment (EM) [Betley et al., 2025b]. Models trained on a narrow distribution of misaligned behavior generalize to more egregio…

cs.LG2025

Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data

Alex Cloud, Minh Le, James Chua +5

We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models transmit behavioral traits via semantically unrelated data. In our main experiments, a "teacher" model w…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Linear Steering: Unified Multi-Attribute Control for Language Models

Narmeen Oozeer, Luke Marks, Shreyans Jain +2

Controlling multiple behavioral attributes in large language models (LLMs) at inference time is a challenging problem due to interference between attributes and the limitations of…

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…