2 papers
cs.CL2026
Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency
Itamar Pres, Belinda Z. Li, Laura Ruis +6
Despite ever-increasing sophistication in language model (LM) pre- and post-training pipelines, many important failures persist: models overcondition on user framing ("sycophancy")…
cs.CL2026
Introspective Coupling: Self-Explanation Training Tracks Behavioral Change Despite Fixed Supervision
Zifan Carl Guo, Laura Ruis, Jacob Andreas +1
When does training language models (LMs) to generate explanations of their predictions yield faithful introspection, rather than superficial imitation? We study LMs trained to expl…