Research Notes

Tracing Subliminal Learning Through Pretraining

Cross-model distillation shows subliminal learning survives differences in initialization, data order, corpus, size, and architecture — and that transmitting and acquiring a preference are separable abilities.

Investigating the Stability of Natural Language Autoencoders

Testing how robust Natural Language Autoencoder verbalizations are to changes in training seed, paraphrasing, and targeted text edits. Work done during SOAR 2026, by Kaylee, Daniel and Abhinav, with author order randomized.

The Common Pile v0.1

Announcing the Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text

Multiple Choice Normalization in LM Evaluation

There are multiple ways of evaluating multiple-choice tasks on autoregressive language models like GPT-3/Neo/J. This post lays out the current prevalent normalization methods.