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Zandi Eberstadt

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Jul 2026

Instruction-Tuned Models Locally Reuse Human Syntax More Than Humans Do

Syntactic convergence (the tendency of speakers to adapt in language towards the grammatical profiles of their interlocutors) is a well-documented feature of human dialogue widely considered to operate below conscious awareness. Whether large language models exhibit analogous syntactic convergence toward human users re...

Zandi Eberstadt · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

Transplanting, inverting, and preventing a misalignment persona: method-conditional emergent misalignment in Qwen2.5

Emergent misalignment (EM) --- the broad misbehaviour a language model acquires after fine-tuning on narrow harmful data --- is mediated in Qwen2.5 models by a latent persona direction, and that direction is causal in open weights. Transplanting it into a model that shares only pretraining with its source induces broad...

Lyndon Drake, Zandi Eberstadt · 0 citations

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