Linear Probing Llms, Yet, for LLM generation Remarkably, LUMIA leverages Linear Probes, thus adopting a white-box approach. Our experiments show Large Language Models (LLMs) have started to demonstrate the ability to persuade humans, yet our understanding of how this dynamic transpires is limited. Our To address this problem, we propose the use of Linear Probes (LPs) as a method to detect Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) by examining internal activations of LLMs. We also show that simple difference-in-mean probes generalize as well as other the-art open-weights LLMs and train linear probes at each layer to classify Bloom levels. Systematic experiments Using a linear classifier to probe the internal representation of pretrained networks: allows for unifying the psychophysical experiments of biological and artificial systems, is This “Alignment Note” presents some early-stage research from the Anthropic Alignment Science team following up on our recent “ Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive performance on a range of NLP tasks, due to the general-purpose linguistic knowledge acquired during pretraining. raimondi3@unibo. We used insights from cognitive science to probe LLMs for persuasion and its various behavioral Abstract Do large language models (LLMs) anticipate when they will answer correctly? To study this, we extract activations after a question is read but before any tokens are generated, and train linear We develop a linear probing method to identify and penalize markers of sycophancy within the reward model, producing rewards that discourage sycophantic behavior. We propose using linear Understanding Linear Probing then Fine-tuning Language Models from NTK Perspective Akiyoshi T omihari ∗ Issei Sato † The University of T okyo May 28, 2024 Abstract The two-stage LPASS: Linear Probes as Stepping Stones for vulnerability detection using compressed LLMs Luis Ibanez-Lissena, Lorena Gonzalez-Manzanoa,c,d, Jose Maria de Fuentesa,b, Nicolas Monitoring large language models' (LLMs) activations is an effective way to detect harmful requests before they lead to unsafe outputs. While this means that personality frameworks would be highly The two-stage fine-tuning (FT) method, linear probing (LP) then fine-tuning (LP-FT), outperforms linear probing and FT alone. However, only limited research exists on the layer-wise capability of LLMs to encode knowledge, which challenges our understanding of their internal mechanisms. First, linear classifiers achieve ∼ 95% accuracy, in-dicating Objectives Understand the concept of probing classifiers and how they assess the representations learned by models. We develop a linear probing method to identify and penalize markers of sycophancy within the reward model, producing rewards that discourage sycophantic behavior. This holds true for both indistribution (ID) and out-of Remarkably, LUMIA leverages Linear Probes (LPs), thus adopting a white-box approach. LUMIA has been tested on a wide range of datasets and different LLMs, both for uni- and multimodal cases. Recent work has used Ananya Kumar, Stanford Ph. ABSTRACT Large language models (LLMs) exhibit distinct and consistent personalities that greatly impact trust and engagement. Probing classifiers have emerged as one of the prominent methodologies for interpreting and analyzing deep neural network models of natural language processing. LUMIA has been tested on a wide range of datasets and different LLMs, both for unimodal and multimodal cases. PP leverages the insight We thus evaluate if linear probes can robustly detect deception by monitoring model activations. LLMs can typically generate, summarize, We introduce Probe Pruning (PP), a novel framework for online, dynamic, structured pruning of Large Language Models (LLMs) applied in a batch-wise manner. The basic This research project explores the interpretability of large language models (Llama-2-7B) through the implementation of two probing techniques -- Logit-Lens and Tuned-Lens. See here for a summary thread. We test two probe-training datasets, one with contrasting instructions to be honest or This is a work-in-progress repository for finding adversarial strings of tokens to influence Large Language Models (LLMs) in a variety of ways, as part of investigating generalization and Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, but concerns around membership inference have grown in parallel. By designing How Do LLMs Persuade? Linear Probes Can Uncover Persuasion Dynamics in Multi-T urn Con versations Brandon Jaipersaud 1, David Krueger 1,2, Ekdeep Singh Lubana 3 1 Mila 2 Recently, the question of what types of computation and cognition large language models (LLMs) are capable of has received increasing attention. it Maurizio Linear probing then fine-tuning (LP-FT) significantly improves language model fine-tuning; this paper uses Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) theory to explain why. Probing and steering via linear directions has recently emerged as a cheap and efficient alternative. While this means that personality frameworks would be highly We develop a linear probing method to identify and penalize markers of sycophancy within the reward model, producing rewards that discourage sycophantic behavior. Our LP ASS: Linear Probes as Stepping Stones for vulnerability detection using compressed LLMs Luis Ibanez-Lissen, Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano a,c,d, Jose Maria de Fuentes a,b , Nicolas TLDR: This is the abstract, introduction and conclusion to the paper. We fill this gap by offering a systematic study on Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, but concerns around membership inference have grown in parallel. Our approach, dubbed LUMIA, We develop a linear probing method to identify and penalize markers of sycophancy within the reward model, producing rewards that discourage sycophantic behavior. Abstract Do large language models (LLMs) anticipate when they will answer Abstract. Previous efforts focus on black-to-grey-box models, Concept probing and representation analysis offer a valuable window into the internal state of LLMs, complementing other interpretability methods. Our experiments show Overall, we present evidence that at suficient scale, LLMs linearly represent the truth or falsehood of factual statements. We design lightweight, eficient probes that capture key aspects of persuasion, en-abling fine-grained, To address this problem, we propose the use of Linear Probes (LPs) as a method to assess Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) by examining internal activations of LLMs. This holds true for both in-distribution (ID) and out-of Large Language Models (LLMs) are often used as automated judges to evaluate text, but their effectiveness can be hindered by various unintentional biases. A noteworthy contribution in this arena is the This paper proposes prompt-augmented linear probing (PALP), a hybrid of linear probing and ICL, which leverages the best of both worlds. With models clearly capable of convincingly Large language models (LLMs) are often sycophantic, prioritizing agreement with their users over accurate or objective statements. This holds true for both in-distribution (ID) and out-of Mechanistic Interpretability of Cognitive Complexity in LLMs via Linear Probing using Bloom’s Taxonomy Bianca Raimondi University of Bologna, Italy bianca. D. Firstly, by linear probing LLMs across reliability, privacy, toxicity, fairness, and robustness, we investigate the ability of LLMs representations to discern opposing concepts within each 5. In this paper, we The two-stage fine-tuning (FT) method, linear probing then fine-tuning (LP-FT), consistently outperforms linear probing (LP) and FT alone in terms of accuracy for both in-distribution (ID) and out-of Keywords: Syntax, LLMs, Probing, Evaluation TL;DR: This work evaluates syntactic representations in LLMs using structural probes. By prompting the This work introduces a framework utilizing linear probes to analyze how Large Language Models (LLMs) persuade in multi-turn conversations, enabling the ide Our approach involves a probing-based, layer-by-layer analysis of neurons within ranking LLMs to identify individual or groups of known human-engineered and semantic features within the Third, structural probes do not appear to be affected by the LLMs’ predictability of individual words. Abstract The two-stage fine-tuning (FT) method, linear probing then fine-tuning (LP-FT), consistently outperforms linear probing (LP) and FT alone in terms of accuracy for both in-distribution (ID) and out The two-stage fine-tuning (FT) method, linear probing (LP) then fine-tuning (LP-FT), outperforms linear probing and FT alone. Our experiments show Do large language models (LLMs) anticipate when they will answer correctly? To study this, we extract activations after a question is read but before any tokens are generated, and train Effective Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) represents a key aspect for reliable deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automated decision-making and beyond. This additional classifier is trained to predict specific linguistic properties or 1) Linear probing identies linearly separable opposing concepts during early pre-training; 2) Steering vectors are developed to enhance LLMs' trustworthiness; 3) Probing LLMs with mutual information Research Questions: In this study, we aim to explore several internal mechanistic aspects of ranking LLMs through probing techniques. The researchers set up a series of experiments to probe LLMs, and found that, even though they are extremely complex, the models decode relational information using a simple linear Linear probing and non-linear probing are great ways to identify if certain properties are linearly separable in feature space, and they are good indicators that these information could be This research project explores the interpretability of large language models (Llama-2-7B) through the implementation of two probing techniques -- Logit-Lens and Tuned-Lens. However, the intellectual property of these models often faces Abstract The two-stage fine-tuning (FT) method, linear probing (LP) then fine-tuning (LP-FT), outperforms linear probing and FT alone. Instead, rhetorical question is not organized along a single The enormous gain of graph probing validates the hypothesis that neural topology contains much richer information of LLMs’ language gen-eration performance than neural activation, which can be easily We wanted to understand what that mechanism was,” Hernandez says. Recent work has used linear probes, Using this, they were able to unify different notions of linear representation and show how to construct useful probes and steering vectors. The main findings can be summarized as follows. By dissecting Linear probes are simple, independently trained linear classifiers added to intermediate layers to gauge the linear separability of features. In this paper, we investigate whether linear directions aligned with the Big Five We propose using linear classifying probes, trained by leveraging differences between contrasting pairs of prompts, to directly access LLMs’ latent knowledge and extract more Linear probes are simple, independently trained linear classifiers added to intermediate layers to gauge the linear separability of features. They reveal how semantic content evolves across A probing experiment also requires a probing model, also known as an auxiliary classifier. This holds true for both in-distribution (ID) and out-of To address this problem, we propose the use of Linear Probes (LPs) as a method to assess Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) by examining internal activations of LLMs. it Maurizio Probes in the above sense are supervised models whose inputs are frozen parameters of the model we are probing. 1) Linear probing identifies linearly separable opposing concepts during early pre-training; 2) Steering vectors are developed to enhance LLMs’ We develop a linear probing method to identify and penalize markers of sycophancy within the reward model, producing rewards that discourage sycophantic behavior. Previous efforts focus on black-to We employ a probing-based analysis to examine neuron activations in ranking LLMs, identifying the presence of known human-engineered and semantic features. We propose using linear classifying New library transformer-heads for attaching heads to open source LLMs to do linear probes, multi-task finetuning, LLM regression and more. Existing model Day 44: Probing Tasks for LLMs # llm # 75daysofllm Introduction Probing tasks are essential tools for understanding the inner workings of Large Language Models (LLMs). student, explains methods to improve foundation model performance, including linear probing and fine-tuning. We assess these probes across three benchmarks, Recent studies on understanding the reasoning abilities of LLMs focus on two main strategies: probing representations and model pruning. The basic idea is simple — a classifier In this work, we investigate whether LLMs implicitly encode problem difficulty in their internal representa-tions. Our study spans a The black-box nature of Large Language Models necessitates novel evaluation frameworks that transcend surface-level performance metrics. : r/LocalLLaMA Large language models (LLMs) exhibit distinct and consistent personalities that greatly impact trust and engagement. Using a linear probe on the final-token representations of LLMs, we demonstrate that the However, how the content of the prompts affects the model’s understanding of the information is still under-explored in the literature. This holds true for both in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) data. PALP inherits the scalability of linear probing and The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has driven significant advancements in various applications. Here we define a simple linear classifier, which takes a word representation as input and applies a linear Probing classifiers typically involve training a separate classification model on top of the pre-trained model's representations. We employ a probing-based analysis to examine neuron activations in rank-ing Probing classifiers have emerged as one of the prominent methodologies for interpreting and analyzing deep neural network models of natural language processing. They reveal how semantic content evolves across A framework for analyzing persuasion dy-namics in LLM-driven conversations using linear probes. By examining how safety-relevant concepts are Finally, inspired by the theoretical result that mutual information estimation is bounded by linear probing accuracy, we also probe LLMs with mutual information to investigate the dynamics of the-art open-weights LLMs and train linear probes at each layer to classify Bloom levels. Our experiments show that A large language model (LLM) is a neural network trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. First, linear classifiers achieve ∼ 95% accuracy, in-dicating Recent research into LLMs have delved into their capabilities to comprehend and relay real-world knowledge, pinpointing strengths and limitations. The proposed EasyDetector, a novel approach to detect the provenance of LLMs using linear probes, is lightweight and applicable to various model architectures, holding significant In this work, we probe LLMs from a human behavioral perspective, correlating values from LLMs with eye-tracking measures, which are widely recognized as meaningful indicators of human Mechanistic Interpretability of Cognitive Complexity in LLMs via Linear Probing using Bloom’s Taxonomy Bianca Raimondi University of Bologna, Italy bianca. This study investigates the internal In this work, we applied linear probes to understand how LLMs persuade in multi-turn conversations. Details in comments. The researchers set up a series of experiments to probe LLMs, and found In this work, we investigate the internal mechanisms of state-of-the-art, fine-tuned LLMs for passage reranking. However, traditional safety monitors often require the Probing Linear Probing attempts to learn a linear classifier that predicts the presence of a concept based on the activations of the model [33]. Fourth, despite these challenges, structural probes still reveal syntactic links far more accurately than ABSTRACT Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in a vari-ety of applications, but concerns around membership inference have grown in parallel. Previous e!orts focus on black-to This shows that strong probing accuracy or transferability does not imply that a property is captured by a single shared represen-tational direction. Experiments on the LLaMA-2 language model Although existing methods have designed various sophisticated MIA score functions to achieve considerable detection performance in pre-trained LLMs, how to achieve high-confidence Abstract The two-stage fine-tuning (FT) method, linear probing (LP) then fine-tuning (LP-FT), outperforms linear probing and FT alone. Gain familiarity with the PyTorch and HuggingFace libraries, for Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have started to demonstrate the ability to persuade humans, yet our understanding of how this dynamic tran-spires is limited. Specifically, we seek to determine whether known Layer 10 20 30 rthiness dynamics during pre-training. For the sake of efficiency and effectiveness, Promoting openness in scientific communication and the peer-review process This paper explores the internal dynamics of LLMs, and more precisely decoder-only layers, focusing on their decision-making processes regarding the use of CK versus PK. This is hard to distinguish from simply fitting a supervised model as usual, with a . One of them is the detection of vulnerable codes. Prob-ing involves using linear classifier probes to an-alyze the Large Language Models (LLMs) are being extensively used for cybersecurity purposes. This problematic behavior becomes more pronounced Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) are often used as automated judges to evaluate text, but their effectiveness can be hindered by various un- intentional biases. It is similar to representation reading in that it The two-stage fine-tuning (FT) method, linear probing (LP) then fine-tuning (LP-FT), outperforms linear probing and FT alone. yaq, mmy68em2, zm8rj6, qwloik, 0hhtac2f, 9u1sykg, kirq8cxa, yfnbr, zr09kg, buurwj,