Reward models (RMs) are central to aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values, yet noisy preference feedback can induce reward misgeneralization through spurious correlations and overfitting. We characterize the training dynamics of preference pairs and uncover a distinctive optimization signature of noise...
Jiazheng Zhang, Wenqing Jing, Zizhuo Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Solving time-dependent parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) with high-fidelity solvers is expensive in multi-query settings. This motivates reduced-order models in latent space. Existing methods are typically either (i) recurrent latent dynamics models, which require step-by-step integration and accumulate...
Khalid Rafiq, Wenjing Liao, Aditya G. Nair· 0 citations
To develop a trustworthy AI system, it is essential to understand its behavior using attribution methods, which aim to identify the input regions that most influence the model's decisions. For discrete inputs such as images, however, accurately identifying input-prediction interactions is particularly challenging becau...
Ruoyu Chen, Siyuan Liang, Jingzhi Li et al.· 0 citations
While there are many advantages to deploying machine learning models on edge devices, the resource constraints of mobile platforms, the dynamic nature of the environment, and differences between the distribution of training versus in-the-wild data make such deployments challenging. Current test-time adaptation methods...
Cynthia Dong, Hong Jia, Young D. Kwon et al.· 0 citations
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Existing research on robust Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) focuses predominantly on undirected graphs, overlooking the trustworthiness inherent in the link directions of directed graphs. In this work, we analyze the limitations of current approaches from both the attack and defense perspectives and redefine the robustnes...
Zhichao Hou, Xitong Zhang, Wei Wang et al.· 0 citations
The policy gradient theorem describes the gradient of the expected discounted return with respect to an agent's policy parameters. However, many policy gradient methods omit the outer discount factor, yielding an update that need not equal the gradient of the discounted objective. Is the resulting update the gradient o...
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) can induce behaviors beyond those explicitly targeted. For example, training a model to respond more warmly can make it more sycophantic, and training it to write insecure code can cause broad misalignment on prompts unrelated to coding. We refer to a relationship between behavi...
Dongyoon Hahm, Woogyeol Jin, Dennis Wei et al.· 0 citations
It is shown that encoding the query can change the circuit's hypothesis class over the signal by modulating how its existing signal frequencies are combined, without introducing new sample-dependent information.
Felix Frohnert, Adrián Pérez-Salinas, Sebastian Lange et al.· 0 citations
A reasoning trace can accompany a correct answer without providing effective supervision for a particular student. We study how to construct traces that improve learning beyond answer-only supervision by considering both their intermediate content and their accessibility to the target learner. We introduce ReDiST, a st...
Shaoang Li, Yanhang Shi, Yufei Li et al.· 0 citations
This study shows that analytical composition can be sufficient in simple regimes, that simulation becomes necessary when stochastic memory effects shape the delivered fidelity distribution, and that lightweight learned surrogates can approximate simulator labels at much lower runtime cost for online control.
Anis Bekri, Amar Abane, V. Mai et al.· 0 citations
The evidence, $\mathcal{Z} = p(x | \mathcal{M})$, of a data-generating model $\mathcal{M}$ is a powerful tool in Bayesian frameworks: it enables model inference, model misspecification tests, and goodness-of-fit assessment as an alternative to standard discrepancy statistics, e.g. $\chi^2$. While versatile, the evidenc...
Kai Lehman, Jameson Dong, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro et al.· 0 citations
Many of the most important datasets in the physical sciences live natively on the sphere, and these data often carry no preferred position or orientation. Using methods that do not reflect this symmetry leads to far higher simulation requirements, which can be catastrophic for scientific analyses (forcing reliance on c...
Joshua Williamson, N. Jeffrey, L. Whiteway· 0 citations
A machine-learning approach called CheMeleon provides a practical way to develop new drugs or other molecules with much less detailed, expensive experimentation.
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