Stored in Optimizer State, Valued by Later Training: A Causal Account of Subliminal Trait Transfer
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arXiv:2608.20442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subliminal trait transfer allows a student model to acquire behavioral dispositions from teacher-generated data in which the trait is not semantically expressed. Recent work explains how such signals enter gradients, but not how they survive source re…
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Stored in Optimizer State, Valued by Later Training: A Causal Account of Subliminal Trait Transfer
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