3 accepted papers
When an LLM learns a new fact during finetuning (e.g., new movie releases, updated celebrity gossip, etc.), where does this information go? Are entities enriched with relation information, or do models recall information just-in-time before a prediction? Are ``all of the above'' true with LLMs imple…
Accurate and verifiable large language model (LLM) simulations of human research subjects promise an accessible data source for understanding human behavior and training new AI systems. However, results to date have been limited, and few social scientists have adopted this method. In this position p…
Reward models are widely used as proxies for human preferences when aligning or evaluating LLMs. However, reward models are black boxes, and it is often unclear what, exactly, they are actually rewarding. In this paper we develop Rewrite-based Attribute Treatment Estimator (RATE) as an effective met…