Papers by Nirmalendu Prakash
Understanding Refusal in Language Models with Sparse Autoencoders (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a study of refusal in instruction-tuned language models identifies latent features that causally mediate refusal behaviors. |
| Approach: | They conduct a mechanistic study of refusal in instruction-tuned LLMs using sparse autoencoders . they identify latent features that causally mediate refusal behaviors using sparsed autoencoding . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method validates refusal-related features across multiple datasets. |