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When Should We Introduce Safety Interventions During Pretraining?
Dylan Sam, Sachin Goyal, Pratyush Maini +2
Prior work has shown that safety interventions applied during pretraining, such as removing and rephrasing harmful content, can substantially improve the robustness of the resultin…
Evaluating Language Model Reasoning about Confidential Information
Dylan Sam, Alexander Robey, Andy Zou +2
As language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in high-stakes settings, ensuring that they reliably follow user-defined rules has become a critical safety concer…
Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI
Pratyush Maini, Sachin Goyal, Dylan Sam +7
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, the risk of generating harmful or toxic content remains a central challenge. Post-hoc alignment m…
Analyzing Similarity Metrics for Data Selection for Language Model Pretraining
Dylan Sam, Ayan Chakrabarti, Afshin Rostamizadeh +3
Measuring similarity between training examples is critical for curating high-quality and diverse pretraining datasets for language models. However, similarity is typically computed…
Predicting the Performance of Black-box LLMs through Follow-up Queries
Dylan Sam, Marc Finzi, J. Zico Kolter
Reliably predicting the behavior of language models -- such as whether their outputs are correct or have been adversarially manipulated -- is a fundamentally challenging task. This…