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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

   Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

   Hubinger, Denison, Mu et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

   The authors built proof-of-concept deceptive language models with hidden backdoors and tested whether standard safety training could remove the behaviour, finding it could persist.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' constructed examples, backdoor behaviour in language models can be made to persist through standard safety training, including adversarial training.“We find that such backdoor behavior can be made persistent, so that it is not removed by standard safety training techniques, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and adversarial training (eliciting unsafe behavior and then training to remove it).”

2. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

   Transfer learning for language model adaptation

   Saiful · 2023

   A dissertation on adapting language models across languages, tasks and domains, proposing methods for cross-lingual transfer, self-training, nearest-neighbour inference and multitask prompt tuning.

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   1. UncheckedThe author observes that, unless a language model is extremely large (over 100 billion parameters), a model adapted to one task cannot be reused for another.“Unless we use an extremely large language model (>100B), a model used for a specific task adaptation cannot be used for another task.”