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cs.CL2026

Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models

Yujin Potter, Nicholas Crispino, Vincent Siu +2

Recent work has found that frontier AI models can exhibit misaligned behaviors in pursuit of assigned goals. We demonstrate that models can also exhibit misaligned behaviors in def…

cs.CL2025

Predicting Task Performance with Context-aware Scaling Laws

Kyle Montgomery, David Park, Jianhong Tu +4

Scaling laws have transformed our understanding of large language models by linking upstream metrics like cross-entropy loss to design factors such as model size, training data, an…

cs.CL2025

MLAN: Language-Based Instruction Tuning Preserves and Transfers Knowledge in Multimodal Language Models

Jianhong Tu, Zhuohao Ni, Nicholas Crispino +8

We present a novel visual instruction tuning strategy to improve the zero-shot task generalization of multimodal large language models by building a firm text-only knowledge base.…

cs.CL2025

COSMIC: Generalized Refusal Direction Identification in LLM Activations

Vincent Siu, Nicholas Crispino, Zihao Yu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) encode behaviors such as refusal within their activation space, yet identifying these behaviors remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often…

cs.CL2024

Agent Instructs Large Language Models to be General Zero-Shot Reasoners

Nicholas Crispino, Kyle Montgomery, Fankun Zeng +2

We introduce a method to improve the zero-shot reasoning abilities of large language models on general language understanding tasks. Specifically, we build an autonomous agent to i…

cs.CL2024

Re-Tuning: Overcoming the Compositionality Limits of Large Language Models with Recursive Tuning

Eric Pasewark, Kyle Montgomery, Kefei Duan +2

We present a new method for large language models to solve compositional tasks. Although they have shown strong performance on traditional language understanding tasks, large langu…