Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models

1 code implementation • 15 Apr 2024 • Usman Anwar, Abulhair Saparov, Javier Rando, Daniel Paleka, Miles Turpin, Peter Hase, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Erik Jenner, Stephen Casper, Oliver Sourbut, Benjamin L. Edelman, Zhaowei Zhang, Mario Günther, Anton Korinek, Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Lewis Hammond, Eric Bigelow, Alexander Pan, Lauro Langosco, Tomasz Korbak, Heidi Zhang, Ruiqi Zhong, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Gabriel Recchia, Giulio Corsi, Alan Chan, Markus Anderljung, Lilian Edwards, Aleksandar Petrov, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Sumeet Ramesh Motwan, Yoshua Bengio, Danqi Chen, Philip H. S. Torr, Samuel Albanie, Tegan Maharaj, Jakob Foerster, Florian Tramer, He He, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Yejin Choi, David Krueger

This work identifies 18 foundational challenges in assuring the alignment and safety of large language models (LLMs).

Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

no code implementations • 27 Jul 2023 • Stephen Casper, Xander Davies, Claudia Shi, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Jérémy Scheurer, Javier Rando, Rachel Freedman, Tomasz Korbak, David Lindner, Pedro Freire, Tony Wang, Samuel Marks, Charbel-Raphaël Segerie, Micah Carroll, Andi Peng, Phillip Christoffersen, Mehul Damani, Stewart Slocum, Usman Anwar, Anand Siththaranjan, Max Nadeau, Eric J. Michaud, Jacob Pfau, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Xin Chen, Lauro Langosco, Peter Hase, Erdem Biyik, Anca Dragan, David Krueger, Dorsa Sadigh, Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a technique for training AI systems to align with human goals.

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Unifying Grokking and Double Descent

1 code implementation • 10 Mar 2023 • Xander Davies, Lauro Langosco, David Krueger

A principled understanding of generalization in deep learning may require unifying disparate observations under a single conceptual framework.

Goal Misgeneralization in Deep Reinforcement Learning

4 code implementations • 28 May 2021 • Lauro Langosco, Jack Koch, Lee Sharkey, Jacob Pfau, Laurent Orseau, David Krueger

We study goal misgeneralization, a type of out-of-distribution generalization failure in reinforcement learning (RL).

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