2 papers
cs.LG2026
Pre-training interventions, ex post facto: Grafting model beliefs across checkpoints
Peter Nutter, Dani Roytburg, Clément Dumas +2
Pre-training interventions are critical to alignment research, since beliefs formed during pre-training shape how a model generalizes from later training. One recently popular tech…
cs.CL2026
Building Comparative Motivation Profiles with Instrumental Interventions
David Vella Zarb, Rustem Turtayev, Taywon Min +2
Safety evaluations often infer latent motivations from behavioral patterns, but the construct validity of these inferences is unclear. We study this problem in alignment faking, wh…