4 papers
Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training
Harry Mayne, Lev McKinney, Jan DubiÅski +3
We introduce Negation Neglect, where finetuning LLMs on documents that flag a claim as false makes them believe the claim is true. For example, models are finetuned on documents th…
Bias-Augmented Consistency Training Reduces Biased Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought
James Chua, Edward Rees, Hunar Batra +4
Chain-of-thought prompting (CoT) has the potential to improve the explainability of language model reasoning. But CoT can also systematically misrepresent the factors influencing m…
Failures to Find Transferable Image Jailbreaks Between Vision-Language Models
Rylan Schaeffer, Dan Valentine, Luke Bailey +12
The integration of new modalities into frontier AI systems offers exciting capabilities, but also increases the possibility such systems can be adversarially manipulated in undesir…
Looking Inward: Language Models Can Learn About Themselves by Introspection
Felix J Binder, James Chua, Tomek Korbak +6
Humans acquire knowledge by observing the external world, but also by introspection. Introspection gives a person privileged access to their current state of mind (e.g., thoughts a…