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Tom A. Lamb

4 accepted papers

2025

Detecting LLM Hallucination Through Layer-wise Information Deficiency: Analysis of Ambiguous Prompts and Unanswerable Questions

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate confident yet inaccurate responses, introducing significant risks for deployment in safety-critical domains. We present a novel, test-time approach to detecting model hallucination through systematic analysis of information flow across model layers. W

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2025

Focus On This, Not That! Steering LLMs with Adaptive Feature Specification

ICML 2025poster

Despite the success of Instruction Tuning (IT) in training large language models (LLMs), such models often leverage spurious or biased features learnt from their training data and can become misaligned, leading to undesired behaviours. While existing techniques can steer model behaviour at inference…

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2024

Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluating Abstract Shape Recognition in Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite the importance of shape perception in human vision, early neural image classifiers relied less on shape information for object recognition than other (often spurious) features. While recent research suggests that current large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit more reliance on shape, we…

2024

Universal In-Context Approximation By Prompting Fully Recurrent Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Zero-shot and in-context learning enable solving tasks without model fine-tuning, making them essential for developing generative model solutions. Therefore, it is crucial to understand whether a pretrained model can be prompted to approximate any function, i.e., whether it is a universal in-context…