3 papers
cs.LG2026
When Can One Neuron Fix Repetition Loops in LLMs?
Aristotelis Lazaridis, Aman Sharma, Dylan Bates +3
The Gemma 4 instruction-tuned models share a reproducible failure: on long factual enumeration prompts, such as TV episodes, the 88 IAU constellations, or the 151 original Pokemon,…
cs.AI2026
EDGE-OPD: Internalizing Privileged Context with Evidence Guided On-Policy Distillation
Aristotelis Lazaridis, Dylan Bates, Aman Sharma +3
On-Policy Distillation (OPD) has gained wide attraction as an LLM post-training paradigm due to its effectiveness in improving capabilities without introducing model distribution d…
cs.CL2026
Measuring and Eliminating Refusals in Military Large Language Models
Jack FitzGerald, Dylan Bates, Aristotelis Lazaridis +17
Military Large Language Models (LLMs) must provide accurate information to the warfighter in time-critical and dangerous situations. However, today's LLMs are imbued with safety be…