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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Activation Flow: Manufacturing Activations for Steering

Difference-in-means steering requires activations recorded while a model shows the desired behavior, which a sandbagging model withholds by deliberately underperforming. We introduce Activation Flow (ActFlow), which manufactures these activations from $k$ correct labels without fine-tuning. ActFlow sets target logits t...

Hong-Fu Tan, Linh Le, David Williams-King · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Apr 2026

Do LLMs Hold Their Values? MANTA: A Multi-Turn Adversarial Benchmark for Animal Welfare Reasoning

MANTA, a benchmark of 1,088 five-turn conversations progressing from an implicit Turn-1 scenario through an explicit welfare prompt to three adversarial pressure rounds drawn from a five-type taxonomy, shows welfare robustness depends jointly on the animal and pressure applied.

Isabella Luong, Joy Chen, Sankalpa Ghose et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

GPS-Bench: A Governance Policy Benchmark for Automating Policy Analysis

GPS-Bench is introduced, an evidence-grounded benchmark for governance policy simulation that links policies to relevant actors, actor actions and downstream impacts using legislative records, lobbying disclosures, regulatory documents, corporate filings, economic data and other public evidence.

Linh Le, Melanie Bui, My Chiffon Nguyen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

A Causal Model for Locating and Unlocking Sandbagging in Model Organisms

A causal model of how sandbagging is carried in the residual stream is proposed, which predicts a window of layers, after the last sandbagging write and before the answer commit, in which a single-layer reference graft of the sandbagging axis to its honest value restores the full capability.

Hong-Fu Tan, Linh Le, David Williams-King · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Reference-Grafting Matches Fine-Tuning at Eliciting Sandbagged Capabilities

Sandbagging, in which a model deliberately underperforms on an evaluation despite retaining the underlying capability, threatens the safety evaluations that frontier-model governance depends on. The Elicitation Game found that fine-tuning elicits hidden capability from sandbagging model organisms whereas additive activ...

Linh Le, Hong-Fu Tan, David Williams-King · 1 citation
Preprint Aug 2026

Towards Efficient Reasoning in LLM-Based Recommender Systems via Model Merging

This work proposes the first model merging framework for reasoning compression in recommender systems, and proposes selective injection of the concise behaviour of the fast-thinking model into the slow-thinking model and reducing reasoning verbosity without compromising recommendation quality.

Linh Le, Tong Chen, S. Sadiq et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

Efficient Safety Alignment of Language Models via Latent Personality Traits

Latent Personality Alignment (LPA) is introduced, which replaces explicit harm refusal with adversarial training on just 66 harm-agnostic statements drawn from psychometric personality literature, hypothesizing that personality-anchored representations share latent structure with harm avoidance, so adversarially stabil...

Mohamed Amine Merzouk, Nolan Smyth, Damiano Fornasiere et al. · 0 citations

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