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Divergent Response Modes in Frontier Language Models Under Steering Pressure

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20 Mar
Steering Awareness: Detecting Activation Steering from Within

arXiv:2511.21399v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Activation steering -- adding a vector to a model's residual stream to modify its behavior -- is widely used in safety

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27 Apr
Estimating Tail Risks in Language Model Output Distributions

arXiv:2604.22167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are increasingly capable and are being rapidly deployed on a population-level scale. As a result, the safety of

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2 Apr
Brevity Constraints Reverse Performance Hierarchies in Language Models

arXiv:2604.00025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard evaluation protocols reveal a counterintuitive phenomenon: on 7.7% of benchmark problems spanning five datasets, larger

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13 May
The Evaluation Differential: When Frontier AI Models Recognise They Are Being Tested

arXiv:2605.11496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent published evidence from frontier laboratories shows that contemporary AI models can recognise evaluation contexts, latently

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18 May
could refusal layers be masking dialect-conditioned safety failures in MoE models [d]

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I set out to test whether AAVE-coded (African American English Vernacular) prompts cause MoE language models to route, deliberate, and respond

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17 Jul
What Models Express, Suppress, and Resist: Auditing Open-Weight LLMs with Persona Vectors

arXiv:2607.13162v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What a language model will and will not do is largely set during post-training, but which behaviors it expresses, hides, or

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22 Apr
Large Language Models Exhibit Normative Conformity

arXiv:2604.19301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The conformity bias exhibited by large language models (LLMs) can pose a significant challenge to decision-making in LLM-based

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30 Mar
BeSafe-Bench: Unveiling Behavioral Safety Risks of Situated Agents in Functional Environments

arXiv:2603.25747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid evolution of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has enabled agents to perform complex digital and physical tasks, yet their

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