Tracing Subliminal Learning Through Pretraining
by Angela Tang, AnandVishesh1301, and Gonçalo Paulo
This post summarizes our paper, Tracing Subliminal Learning Through Pretraining, which was developed as part of EleutherAI’s SOAR program. TL;DR We study subliminal learning, the phenomenon in which a student model acquires a teacher’s preference through training data that appear semantically unrelated to that preference. Our work investigates subliminal learning...
Oct 2510