3 papers
cs.LG2026
Towards Understanding Subliminal Learning: When and How Hidden Biases Transfer
Simon Schrodi, Elias Kempf, Fazl Barez +1
Language models can transfer hidden biases during distillation. For example, a teacher that "likes owls" can make its student "like owls" too, even when the training data consists…
cs.LG2026
Simple LLM Baselines are Competitive for Model Diffing
Elias Kempf, Simon Schrodi, Bartosz CywiÅski +3
Standard LLM evaluations only test capabilities or dispositions that evaluators designed them for, missing unexpected differences such as behavioral shifts between model revisions…
cs.LG2025
When and How Does CLIP Enable Domain and Compositional Generalization?
Elias Kempf, Simon Schrodi, Max Argus +1
The remarkable generalization performance of contrastive vision-language models like CLIP is often attributed to the diversity of their training distributions. However, key questio…