4 papers
Objective Matters: Fine-Tuning Objectives Shape Safety, Robustness, and Persona Drift
Daniel Vennemeyer, Punya Syon Pandey, Phan Anh Duong +2
Fine-tuning LLMs on benign data can still degrade alignment and adversarial robustness, yet direct analysis of the role of fine-tuning objectives in shaping these safety outcomes r…
Anatomy of a Feeling: Narrating Embodied Emotions via Large Vision-Language Models
Mohammad Saim, Phan Anh Duong, Cat Luong +2
The embodiment of emotional reactions from body parts contains rich information about our affective experiences. We propose a framework that utilizes state-of-the-art large vision-…
Sycophancy Is Not One Thing: Causal Separation of Sycophantic Behaviors in LLMs
Daniel Vennemeyer, Phan Anh Duong, Tiffany Zhan +1
Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit sycophantic behaviors -- such as excessive agreement with or flattery of the user -- but it is unclear whether these behaviors arise from…
CHEER-Ekman: Fine-grained Embodied Emotion Classification
Phan Anh Duong, Cat Luong, Divyesh Bommana +1
Emotions manifest through physical experiences and bodily reactions, yet identifying such embodied emotions in text remains understudied. We present an embodied emotion classificat…