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Evaluation without Generation: Non-Generative Assessment of Harmful Model Specialization with Applications to CSAM
Vinith M. Suriyakumar, Ayush Sekhari, Lena Stempfle +5
Auditing the fine-tunes of open-weight generative models for harmful specialization has become a new governance challenge for model hosting platforms. The standard toolkit, generat…
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Online Reasoning Calibration: Test-Time Training Enables Generalizable Conformal LLM Reasoning
Cai Zhou, Zekai Wang, Menghua Wu +6
While test-time scaling has enabled large language models to solve highly difficult tasks, state-of-the-art results come at exorbitant compute costs. These inefficiencies can be at…
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Efficient and accurate steering of Large Language Models through attention-guided feature learning
Parmida Davarmanesh, Ashia Wilson, Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan
Steering, or direct manipulation of internal activations to guide LLM responses toward specific semantic concepts, is emerging as a promising avenue for both understanding how sema…