3 papers
cs.LG2026
Sycophantic Agreement Transfers with Neutral Data via Contrastive Preference Optimization
Camila Blank, Zhuofan Ying, Christopher Potts +2
Sycophantic agreement refers to a behavior in which language models excessively affirm the user, often at the cost of factual accuracy. Although sycophantic agreement is a well-kno…
cs.AI2026
Subliminal Learning Is Steering Vector Distillation
Camila Blank, Agam Bhatia, Senthooran Rajamanoharan +2
Subliminal learning refers to a student language model acquiring a teacher's traits (e.g. a system-prompted preference for owls) when fine-tuned on the teacher's outputs, despite t…
cs.CV2026
Diffusion MRI Transformer with a Diffusion Space Rotary Positional Embedding (D-RoPE)
Gustavo Chau Loo Kung, Mohammad Abbasi, Camila Blank +6
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) plays a critical role in studying microstructural changes in the brain. It is, therefore, widely used in clinical practice; yet progress…