Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) is increasingly used in applications where large language models (LLMs) interact with humans and other agents. Here we use social deduction games to study how RFT changes LLMs'social behaviour. We let fine-tuned and base LLM agents play hidden-role games that require hidden-state inferen...
Ling-Zhe Zhang, Yun-Peng Zhai, Tong Jia et al.· 0 citations
Training large language models (LLMs) entails a fundamental trade-off: memory-efficient optimizers such as Adam discard cross-parameter curvature, whereas full-curvature methods such as SOAP can accelerate convergence at prohibitive memory costs. We introduce Clean, a memory-efficient and full-curvature optimizer desig...
Beheshteh T. Rakhshan, S. Rajabi, Maziar Sargordi Shikai Fang et al.· 0 citations
LLM agents for clinical text-to-SQL applications reason autonomously over multiple steps but cannot assess whether their own reasoning or outputs can be trusted. In high leverage applications such as healthcare, this presents a critical risk where system mistakes can be costly. These reliability failures are also resou...
Mincheol Daniel Song, Joshua Ward, Jake Jung et al.· 0 citations
Building LLMs that behave well socially, not merely correctly, requires Building LLMs that behave well socially, not merely correctly, requires more than producing locally helpful responses. A socially competent agent must infer users' unstated goals, respect their preferences, and adapt as the conversation unfolds. Th...
Jingquan Wang, Jun Yin, Xu Han et al.· 0 citations
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Self-report is an appealing low-cost probe of an LLM's dispositions, but recent work finds only selective agreement between what models report and how they behave. Prior accounts establish these patterns by prompting black-box LLMs, leaving open whether the gap is a prompting artefact or a fact about how the underlying...
R. Kocielnik, Pei-Yang Song, Peng-Rui Han et al.· 0 citations
Real-world time series are frequently driven by exogenous events and structural shifts, rendering conventional forecasting based solely on historical numerical observations insufficient. While language models can retrieve external news, standard retrieval-augmented approaches struggle with high noise, missing signals,...
Ming-Tian Tan, Palash Goyal, Mihir Parmar et al.· 0 citations
Localizing behavior to individual components of a language model is a central goal of mechanistic interpretability. However, scoring components one at a time misses context-dependent effects: a primary component can inhibit the activation of a backup, leading to issues with ranking components. Actual causality studies...
Sankaran Vaidyanathan, R. Urbaniak, Emily Bunnapradist et al.· 0 citations
During fine-tuning, a language model can assign less probability to previously learned answers even when the current gradient acts to preserve that probability. With momentum, each update also carries gradients computed at earlier model states, and these stored contributions can push the model in the opposite direction...
Long chain-of-thought (CoT) traces impose substantial output-token costs. Under constrained budgets, compression must preserve answer-critical information, making boundary placement central. Token-level and fixed-length boundaries can fragment coherent spans such as phrases, formulas, and local derivations, whereas ste...
Yi-Feng Zhao, Hong-Jun Yu, Shi-Bo Wang et al.· 0 citations
Researchers often support the claim that a model shares structure with the brain, or across languages, by reporting a similarity score. We ask what such a score reads when the shared structure is absent, or when the tool that measures it does not work. We check two settings, and in both the score is not what it appears...
Discrete motion tokenizers encode motion as atomic units and are widely used for co-speech gesture generation. It remains unclear which motion properties, especially those relevant to gesture semantics, are recoverable from these codebooks. We probe a reconstruction-trained codebook using 19 co-speech gesture descripto...
Varsha Suresh, Divij Jain, Jia Liu et al.· 0 citations
Are language models compliant with user instructions? A model that always complies can be stopped but also exploited, while one that always resists can be neither exploited nor stopped. We contribute an open two-probe benchmark that can place any language model on this spectrum. In the active probe, a user instructs th...
Stefan Bühler, David Exler, M. Reischl et al.· 0 citations
A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduAug 31, 2026
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