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Responsiveness Verification: Will Predictions Change? How Much? How Often?

arXiv:2507.02169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning models are often used in applications where their inputs change due to routine interactions, strategic manipulation, or noise. In such settings, models can undermine safety as these changes lead them to predict over…

Capacity-Dependent Effects of Data Selection for Reasoning

arXiv:2608.13721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In reasoning supervised fine-tuning, candidate responses for the same instruction can differ substantially in how well they match the student’s current distribution. Recent likelihood-based response selection methods suggest that responses closer to the student distribution…

PHASE: Passive Human Activity Simulation Evaluation

arXiv:2507.13505v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cybersecurity simulation environments, such as cyber ranges, honeypots, and sandboxes, require realistic human behavior to be effective, yet no quantitative method exists to assess the behavioral fidelity of synthetic user personas. This paper presents PHASE…

Dissociating the Internal Representations of Sycophancy in LLMs

arXiv:2607.07003v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently exhibit sycophancy, agreeing with a user’s statement even when it is incorrect. While often studied as a single, uniform behavior, sycophancy can manifest in substantially distinct ways across contexts, raising…

CutClean: Neural Network Pruning for Privacy-Preserving Inference

arXiv:2608.13773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks are increasingly deployed in high-stakes applications with growing privacy leakage concerns. We show that this privacy leakage can occur even in the absence of representation imbalances that lead to traditional dataset biases. This…

Split the Labor: Separating Evidence Interpretation from Decision Aggregation

arXiv:2608.14509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Systems that ask a language model to reach a conclusion from many sources usually concatenate them into one prompt. This conflates two operations with different requirements. Interpreting a source rewards capacity and context. Combining interpretations…