Persona vectors form within the first 0.22% of LLM pretraining and remain effective for steering post-trained models, with continued refinement and transfer to other models.
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs, December 2025
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Empirical analysis of over 100 sequential RL training pipelines across 250+ OOD environments finds salient features drive generalization and early goals persist, with latent policy gradients simulating latent variable evolution to predict OOD behavior from training history.
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Tracing Persona Vectors Through LLM Pretraining
Persona vectors form within the first 0.22% of LLM pretraining and remain effective for steering post-trained models, with continued refinement and transfer to other models.
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Understanding Goal Generalisation in Sequential Reinforcement Learning
Empirical analysis of over 100 sequential RL training pipelines across 250+ OOD environments finds salient features drive generalization and early goals persist, with latent policy gradients simulating latent variable evolution to predict OOD behavior from training history.
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