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10 papers

cs.AI2026

What Shapes Emergent Misalignment? Insights from Training Dynamics, Model Priors, and Data

Yuchen Zhang, Anietta Weckauff, Diego Garcia-Olano +1

Emergent misalignment (EM) is a phenomenon in which models generalize with narrow fine-tuning, leading to broad (yet uneven) misalignment across evaluation questions. We study EM a…

cs.AI2026

Characterizing the Consistency of the Emergent Misalignment Persona

Anietta Weckauff, Yuchen Zhang, Maksym Andriushchenko

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on narrowly misaligned data generalizes to broadly misaligned behavior, a phenomenon termed emergent misalignment (EM). While prior work ha…

cs.LG2026

Toward Efficient Influence Function: Dropout as a Compression Tool

Yuchen Zhang, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

Assessing the impact the training data on machine learning models is crucial for understanding the behavior of the model, enhancing the transparency, and selecting training data. I…

cs.CL2026

Language Family Matters: Evaluating LLM-Based ASR Across Linguistic Boundaries

Yuchen Zhang, Ravi Shekhar, Haralambos Mouratidis

Large Language Model (LLM)-powered Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems achieve strong performance with limited resources by linking a frozen speech encoder to a pretrained L…

cs.CL2025

Hallucination reduction with CASAL: Contrastive Activation Steering For Amortized Learning

Wannan, Yang, Xinchi Qiu +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities but often hallucinate, confidently providing incorrect answers instead of admitting ignorance. Prior work has shown tha…

cs.LG2025

Loquetier: A Virtualized Multi-LoRA Framework for Unified LLM Fine-tuning and Serving

Yuchen Zhang, Hanyue Du, Chun Cao +1

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a widely adopted parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) technique for adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. While prior w…