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Maximilian Mozes

6 accepted papers

2025

No Need for Explanations: LLMs can implicitly learn from mistakes in-context

EMNLP 2025

Showing incorrect answers to Large Language Models (LLMs) is a popular strategy to improve their performance in reasoning-intensive tasks. It is widely assumed that, in order to be helpful, the incorrect answers must be accompanied by comprehensive rationales, explicitly detailing where the mistakes

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2025

Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

The capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) have been sketched out in great detail in recent years, providing an intriguing yet conflicting picture. On the one hand, LLMs demonstrate a general ability to solve problems. On the other hand, they show surprising reasoning gaps when…

2025

Reverse Engineering Human Preferences with Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

The capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) are routinely evaluated by other LLMs trained to predict human preferences. This framework—known as *LLM-as-a-judge*—is highly scalable and relatively low cost. However, it is also vulnerable to malicious exploitation, as LLM responses can be tuned to…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Here’s a Free Lunch: Sanitizing Backdoored Models with Model Merge

ACL 2024findings

The democratization of pre-trained language models through open-source initiatives has rapidly advanced innovation and expanded access to cutting-edge technologies. However, this openness also brings significant security risks, including backdoor attacks, where hidden malicious behaviors are trigger…

2022

Identifying Human Strategies for Generating Word-Level Adversarial Examples

EMNLP 2022finding

Adversarial examples in NLP are receiving increasing research attention. One line of investigation is the generation of word-level adversarial examples against fine-tuned Transformer models that preserve naturalness and grammaticality. Previous work found that human- and machine-generated adversaria…

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2021

Contrasting Human- and Machine-Generated Word-Level Adversarial Examples for Text Classification

EMNLP 2021main

Research shows that natural language processing models are generally considered to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks; but recent work has drawn attention to the issue of validating these adversarial inputs against certain criteria (e.g., the preservation of semantics and grammaticality). Enforcin…