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Predicting the Performance of Black-box LLMs through Follow-up Queries
Dylan Sam, Marc Finzi, J. Zico Kolter
Reliably predicting the behavior of language models -- such as whether their outputs are correct or have been adversarially manipulated -- is a fundamentally challenging task. This…
Analyzing Similarity Metrics for Data Selection for Language Model Pretraining
Dylan Sam, Ayan Chakrabarti, Afshin Rostamizadeh +3
Measuring similarity between training examples is critical for curating high-quality and diverse pretraining datasets for language models. However, similarity is typically computed…
Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI
Pratyush Maini, Sachin Goyal, Dylan Sam +7
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, the risk of generating harmful or toxic content remains a central challenge. Post-hoc alignment m…
Evaluating Language Model Reasoning about Confidential Information
Dylan Sam, Alexander Robey, Andy Zou +2
As language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in high-stakes settings, ensuring that they reliably follow user-defined rules has become a critical safety concer…
Finetuning CLIP to Reason about Pairwise Differences
Dylan Sam, Devin Willmott, Joao D. Semedo +1
Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP are trained via contrastive learning between text and image pairs, resulting in aligned image and text embeddings that are useful for man…