OpenAI finetuning metrics: What is going on with the loss curves?
Reverse engineer OpenAI fine-tuning loss/accuracy curves to explain the hidden token counts.
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Our research findings that are not published as a paper. These are shorter research updates, or quick followups on existing papers.
Concept Poisoning: Probing LLMs without probes
A novel LLM evaluation technique using concept poisoning to probe models without explicit probes
Read More →Backdoor awareness and misaligned personas in reasoning models
Reasoning models sometimes articulate the influence of backdoors in their chain of thought, retaining a helpful persona while choosing misaligned outcomes
Read More →OpenAI Responses API changes models' behavior
OpenAI's new Responses API causes finetuned models to behave differently than the Chat Completions API, sometimes dramatically so.
Read More →New, improved multiple-choice TruthfulQA
We introduce a new multiple-choice version of TruthfulQA that fixes a potential problem with the existing versions (MC1 and MC2).
Read More →Tips On Empirical Research Slides
Practical tips on slide-based communication for empirical research with LLMs
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