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Zachary Kenton

3 accepted papers

2024

Discovering Agents (Abstract Reprint)

AAAI 2024technical

Causal models of agents have been used to analyse the safety aspects of machine learning systems. But identifying agents is non-trivial – often the causal model is just assumed by the modeller without much justification – and modelling failures can lead to mistakes in the safety analysis. This paper…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs

NeurIPS 2024poster

Scalable oversight protocols aim to enable humans to accurately supervise superhuman AI. In this paper we study debate, where two AI's compete to convince a judge; consultancy, where a single AI tries to convince a judge that asks questions; and compare to a baseline of direct question-answering,…

Cited by 31SourcePDFScholar
2019

On the Relation Between the Sharpest Directions of DNN Loss and the SGD Step Length

ICLR 2019poster

The training of deep neural networks with Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with a large learning rate or a small batch-size typically ends in flat regions of the weight space, as indicated by small eigenvalues of the Hessian of the training loss. This was found to correlate with a good final genera…