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Tag: prompting

Catching cheaters with ImpossibleBench

2025-11-10 Video code alignment applications prompting tools Agentic models used for software engineering often cheat by modifying the tests, or writing code to the tests rather than the spec, so that it will pass the tests without actually being correct. This talk covers ImpossibleBench, a new dataset intended to help catch cheating by giving models tests that cannot be passed honestly. Access: $ Basic

Quick look: Injective LLMs

2025-11-05 math prompting sampling text theory meta Brief thoughts on the "Injective and invertible LLMs" paper that is making the rounds. My general view on it is negative. Access: Free account (logged in)

Ineffable prompts

2025-09-15 Video prompting fine-tuning text alignment How do we get models to do what we want? At one extreme, we might pre-train or fine-tune an entire model for a given task. At the other, we might use an existing model and tell it with words - that is, in a prompt - what to do. This paper represents a position in between those two extremes: prompt the model using not words but optimized vectors of hidden layer activations. These can be more expressive and carefully tailored than a prompt restricted to words. Access: $ Basic

Generate and read: Oh no they didn't

2025-05-21 Video prompting text GPT RAG hallucination What if instead of looking up facts in Wikipedia, you just used a language model to generate fake Wikipedia articles? Access: Public