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David Baek

2 accepted papers

2026

D-FUSEr: Diverse Failure, Unified Success via Error-Distribution Shaping in LLM Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Test-time scaling methods such as majority vote aggregation and iterative refinement (e.g., self-reflection or multi-agent inference) improve reasoning performance by leveraging multiple solution samples. However, their efficacy depends not only on raw performance, but critically on the distribution…

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2026

Sycophancy Towards Researchers Drives Performative Misalignment

ICML 2026spotlight

The increasing situational awareness of language models raises safety concerns: models might be aware when they are evaluated, and adjust their behavior to evade monitoring and resist modification, e.g., pretending to be aligned only in evaluation. This \emph{alignment faking} behavior is often inte…

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