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Painless Activation Steering: An Automated, Lightweight Approach for Post-Training Large Language Models
Sasha Cui, Zhongren Chen
Language models (LMs) are typically post-trained for desired capabilities and behaviors via weight-based or prompt-based steering, but the former is time-consuming and expensive, a…
Quantile-Optimal Policy Learning under Unmeasured Confounding
Zhongren Chen, Siyu Chen, Zhengling Qi +2
We study quantile-optimal policy learning where the goal is to find a policy whose reward distribution has the largest -quantile for some . We focus on the offline…
Generalizing causal effects with noncompliance: Application to deep canvassing experiments
Zhongren Chen, Melody Huang
Standard approaches in generalizability often focus on generalizing the intent-to-treat (ITT). However, in practice, a more policy-relevant quantity is the generalized impact of an…
A Framework to Assess the Persuasion Risks Large Language Model Chatbots Pose to Democratic Societies
Zhongren Chen, Joshua Kalla, Quan Le +3
In recent years, significant concern has emerged regarding the potential threat that Large Language Models (LLMs) pose to democratic societies through their persuasive capabilities…