2 papers
cs.LG2026
Tracing Subliminal Learning Through Pretraining
Angela Tang, Vishesh Anand, Gonçalo Paulo
Large language models trained on data generated by other models can sometimes inherit traits unrelated to that data, a phenomenon called subliminal learning. We study both hard lab…
cs.CL2026
Rhetorical Questions in LLM Representations: A Linear Probing Study
Louie Hong Yao, Vishesh Anand, Yuan Zhuang +1
Rhetorical questions are asked not to seek information but to persuade or signal stance. How large language models internally represent them remains unclear. We analyze rhetorical…