7 papers
Gotta Catch them all: the modes of Sycophancy
Shreyans Jain, Alexandra Yost, Amirali Abdullah
Large language models often align with users' beliefs at the expense of factual accuracy, a behavior known as sycophancy. Prior mechanistic studies largely treat sycophancy as a si…
The Capability Frontier: Benchmarks Miss 82% of Model Performance
Bradley Fowler, Ryan Smith, Daniel Thi Graviet +8
Existing benchmarks typically report accuracy for a single model on a single run. This systematically understates real-world LLM capabilities, particularly under heterogeneous data…
Riemannian-Manifold Steering: Geometry-Aware Generative Autoencoders for Label-Free Steering
Narmeen Oozeer, Shivam Raval, Philip Quirke +4
Steering a language model - intervening on its internal activations to change downstream behaviour - has recently expanded beyond linear interpolation to nonlinear methods such as…
STRIDE: Training Data Attribution via Sparse Recovery from Subset Perturbations
Rishit Dagli, Abir Harrasse, Luke Zhang +4
Training Data Attribution (TDA) seeks to trace a model's predictions back to its training data. The gold standard for TDA relies on causal interventions, observing how a model chan…
Measure what Matters: Psychometric Evaluation of AI with Situational Judgment Tests
Alexandra Yost, Shreyans Jain, Shivam Raval +6
Persona conditioning is widely used to steer large language model (LLM) behavior, but it is unclear whether it induces stable behavioral structure or superficial variation. We prop…
Make Mechanistic Interpretability Auditable: A Call to Develop Guidelines via Continuous Collaborative Reviewing
Michael Lan, Narmeen Fatimah Oozeer, Chaithanya Bandi +4
While mechanistic interpretability (MI) has produced important insights into neural network internals, the field has yet to establish a standardized system to audit experiments. As…