3 papers
cs.CL2026
Outcome Rewards Do Not Guarantee Verifiable or Causally Important Reasoning
Qinan Yu, Alexa Tartaglini, Peter Hase +2
Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) on chain-of-thought reasoning has become a standard part of language model post-training recipes. A common assumption is that…
cs.CL2025
Improved Representation Steering for Language Models
Zhengxuan Wu, Qinan Yu, Aryaman Arora +2
Steering methods for language models (LMs) seek to provide fine-grained and interpretable control over model generations by variously changing model inputs, weights, or representat…
cs.LG2024
LLM Circuit Analyses Are Consistent Across Training and Scale
Curt Tigges, Michael Hanna, Qinan Yu +1
Most currently deployed large language models (LLMs) undergo continuous training or additional finetuning. By contrast, most research into LLMs' internal mechanisms focuses on mode…