Training on aligned data can cause misalignment in different contexts

Fine-tuning on responses that are appropriate in one domain can transfer that behavior to other domains where it becomes misaligned.

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Yavuz Bakman · Duygu Nur Yaldiz · Baris Askin · Swastik Roy · Morteza Ziyadi · Salman Avestimehr · +1 more

University of Southern California · Carnegie Mellon University · Amazon · Microsoft

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Bakman et al.

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From Amazon and 3 others · Released code · Part of Safety Training Side Effects, now 5 papers

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Training on aligned data can induce misaligned behavior in other contexts via context confusion.

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