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GATES: Self-Distillation under Privileged Context with Consensus Gating
Alex Stein, Furong Huang, Tom Goldstein
We study self-distillation in settings where supervision is unreliable: there are no ground truth labels, verifiable rewards, or external graders to evaluate answers. We focus on d…
Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
Sean McLeish, Arpit Bansal, Alex Stein +8
The poor performance of transformers on arithmetic tasks seems to stem in large part from their inability to keep track of the exact position of each digit inside of a large span o…
A Simple Baseline for Predicting Events with Auto-Regressive Tabular Transformers
Alex Stein, Samuel Sharpe, Doron Bergman +5
Many real-world applications of tabular data involve using historic events to predict properties of new ones, for example whether a credit card transaction is fraudulent or what ra…
Coercing LLMs to do and reveal (almost) anything
Jonas Geiping, Alex Stein, Manli Shu +3
It has recently been shown that adversarial attacks on large language models (LLMs) can "jailbreak" the model into making harmful statements. In this work, we argue that the spectr…