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Defence against the dark arts of distillation: Unsupervised discovery of subliminal learning

arXiv:2610.13536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language model is distilled from a teacher that shares its base parameters, the student can inherit behavioural traits of the teacher---including misalignment---even from data that is semantically unrelated to the trait (Cloud et al., 2026). Al…

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  1. 2026-10-12 04:00 · arXiv stat.ML
    Defence against the dark arts of distillation: Unsupervised discovery of subliminal learning

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