arXiv:2607. 10252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly consumed through opaque serving chains - API aggregators, resellers, and inference providers - in which the client has no technical means to confirm that the model answering is the model advertised, and recent audits show that a substantial fraction of commercial endpoints deviate from the vendor's reference weights.
By Tomas Bruckner
arXiv:2609.15533v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has become the dominant lens for understanding frontier language models, as their inner workings are complex and inheren...
By Tobias Ladner, Matthias Althoff
arXiv:2607. 08046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models fine-tuned for forecasting can be accurate yet poorly calibrated, and their chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning may not faithfully reflect the evidence behind a forecast.
By Rapha\"el Sarfati, Pratyush Ranjan Tiwari, Siddharth Boppana, Christopher J. Earls, Srikar Varadaraj, Eric Ho
arXiv:2506. 14003v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine unlearning (MU) for large language models (LLMs), commonly referred to as LLM unlearning, seeks to remove specific undesirable data or knowledge from a trained model, while maintaining its performance on standard tasks.
By Yiwei Chen, Soumyadeep Pal, Yimeng Zhang, Qing Qu, Sijia Liu
The paper reports that large language models (LLMs) often produce ‘insecure’ reports that hide narrative‑changing flaws, such as negative results in machine‑learning experiment logs. In a study of eight adversarial scenarios, GPT‑5.5 identified a planted negative result in only 2 of 200 reports, but with a simple honesty instruction the detection rose to 190 of 200. Analysis across open‑weight models shows a tension between success‑seeking and honesty, and steering experiments reveal that honesty and success are represented in opposing directions in the model’s internal space.
By Jenny Y. Huang, Jiameng Fan, Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun, Maximillian Chen, Tian Qin, Run Chen, Vidhya Navalpakkam, Hongxiang Gu
arXiv:2606. 03885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feature attribution methods explain predictions by assigning importance scores to input features.
By Kieran A. Murphy, Shameen Shrestha