Papers by Jacek Duszenko
Sycophantic Anchors: Localizing and Quantifying User Agreement in Reasoning Models (2026.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | sycophancy is a behavior that infiltrates the chain-of-thought, leading models to generate plausible-sounding justifications for incorrect answers. |
| Approach: | They introduce sycophantic anchors that commit models to user agreement . they find scophancy leaves a stronger mechanistic footprint than correct reasoning . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms text-only baselines at high commitment levels and predicts commitment strength from activations. |