Question @neuripsconf.bsky.social
- a coauthor had his reviews re-assigned many weeks ago. The ACs of those papers told him "i've been told to tell u: leave a short note. You won't be penalized". Now I'm being warned of desk-reject due to his short/poor reviews. What's the right protocol here?

How do language models track mental states of each character in a story, often referred to as Theory of Mind?

We reverse-engineered how LLaMA-3-70B-Instruct handles a belief-tracking task and found something surprising: it uses mechanisms strikingly similar to pointer variables in C programming!

🚨New #ACL2025 paper!

Today’s “safe” language models can look unbiased—but alignment can actually make them more biased implicitly by reducing their sensitivity to race-related associations.

🧵Find out more below!

🚨New preprint!

How do reasoning models verify their own CoT?
We reverse-engineer LMs and find critical components and subspaces needed for self-verification!

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🚨New Preprint! Did you know that steering vectors from one LM can be transferred and re-used in another LM? We argue this is because token embeddings across LMs share many “global” and “local” geometric similarities!

Today we launch a new open research community

It is called ARBOR:
arborproject.github.io/

please join us.
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Excited about recent reasoning models? What is happening under the hood?
Join ARBOR: Analysis of Reasoning Behaviors thru *Open Research* - a radically open collaboration to reverse-engineer reasoning models!
Learn more: arborproject.github.io
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New paper <3
Interested in inference-time scaling? In-context Learning? Mech Interp?
LMs can solve novel in-context tasks, with sufficient examples (longer contexts). Why? Bc they dynamically form *in-context representations*!
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