3 papers
cs.AI2026
Suppressing Pressure, Amplifying Evidence: Self-Guided Attention Steering to Mitigate Sycophancy and Stubbornness
Yinghao He, Mengyu Xu, Haixiang Sun +8
Reliable language models should resist unsupported user pressure while effectively using objective contextual information. However, models may exhibit sycophancy by yielding to uns…
cs.LG2026
The Teacher Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Extrapolating RL-Induced Representation Residuals in On-Policy Distillation
Hao Li, MeiJia Chen, Weijie Ren +4
On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student to match the teacher's next-token distributions on the student's own trajectories and has yielded substantial empirical gains. General…
cs.AI2026
FM-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Management with Competing Agents
Tianyou Wang, Chongyang Gao, Kezhen Chen +6
Language model agents now execute bounded tasks reliably. Whether they can sustain effective decision-making over long horizons, where actions have cumulative consequences and the…