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How to train your model organism

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

The Model Organism Lottery: Model Organism Interpretability Strongly Depends on Training Methodology

arXiv:2607. 01033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model organisms (MOs) - language models trained to exhibit undesired or unnatural behaviours - are frequently used as testbeds for evaluating white-box interpretability techniques.

By Andrzej Szablewski, Gabriel Konar-Steenberg, Raffaello Fornasiere, Nikita Menon, Stefan Heimersheim
arXiv AI
Oct 7

SIGMA: Self-Improving Alignment Generalization from a Model Spec

SIGMA is a self‑improving alignment framework that uses a model’s own reasoning to generate diverse alignment dilemma scenarios from a simple "Model Spec" and then fine‑tunes the model with self‑judged rewards. By performing spec‑guided task synthesis and rubric‑based reinforcement learning, SIGMA improves safety alignment in multi‑turn agentic settings, reducing harmfulness and misalignment scores while preserving general capability. The approach demonstrates that a model can autonomously strengthen its own safety reasoning without external supervision.

By Jingyu Zhang, Shruti Palaskar, Daniel Khashabi, Benjamin Van Durme, Leon A. Gatys, Joseph Yitan Cheng
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 5

Clinical Concept Centers in LLMs

The paper investigates whether clinical concepts are represented as distinct, causally influential centers within the latent space of large language models (LLMs). By evaluating eleven open-weight LLMs, the authors discover that each model contains dedicated clinical concept centers that are interpretable, activate only on relevant clinical narratives, and drive model behavior in both constrained and open-ended contexts. These centers can be leveraged for evaluation and performance improvement, as steering models along them enhances downstream clinical outcomes and aligns with clinician preferences.

By Aishik Nagar, Abhishek Vaidyanathan, Arun-Kumar Kaliya-Perumal, Elijah Tzen Hsuen Boey, Stefan Winkler
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

OncoReason: Structuring Clinical Reasoning in LLMs for Robust and Interpretable Survival Prediction

arXiv:2510. 17532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting cancer treatment outcomes requires models that are both accurate and interpretable, particularly in the presence of heterogeneous clinical data.

By Raghu Vamshi Hemadri, Geetha Krishna Guruju, Kristi Topollai, Anna Ewa Choromanska
arXiv AI
Jun 11

The Standard Interpretable Model: A general theory of interpretable machine learning to deductively design interpretable methods using Lagrangian mechanics

arXiv:2606. 12289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Artificial Intelligence models grow in complexity, interpretability has become an indispensable tool for understanding, debugging, and controlling their computations.

By Pietro Barbiero, Giovanni De Felice, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Francesco Giannini, Filippo Bonchi, Mateja Jamnik, Giuseppe Marra, Ruggero Noris
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 10

Anatomy of Post-Training: Using Interpretability to Characterize Data and Shape the Learning Signal

Language-model post-training is the main stage at which model behavior is shaped, yet it still largely involves optimization of scalar rewards that summarize diverse desiderata. This abstraction gives practitioners little visibility into what their data actually teaches models, allowing spurious correlations to be learned by a model and inducing undesirable behaviors such as over-stylization and sycophancy.