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Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models

As of 16 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 15 of 15 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2607.19608.

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measured 15 of 15 reference resolution

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measured 15 of 15 standing notices

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measured 0 of 0 inbound itemization

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measured 0 of 1 external citation measurements

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15 of 15 outbound references displayed

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Outbound references

Observation 8a5cf67e-ce82-42fc-bd4b-95d8ae5124cc · outbound

This paper cites Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

Reference 6

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Observation 9905b508-1e12-42b5-a6f7-c3507413d7a0 · outbound

This paper cites InProceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2381–2391, Brussels, Belgium.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models InProceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2381–2391, Brussels, Belgium

Reference 9

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Observation 7b233d8a-7bab-46f6-ae6c-c3af734f5e82 · outbound

This paper cites Jason Wei, Maarten Bosma, Vincent Y.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models Jason Wei, Maarten Bosma, Vincent Y

Reference 13

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Observation 1454e511-acdc-4761-85ae-7fcfc4019a0a · outbound

This paper cites In International Conference on Learning Representa- tions, volume 2024, pages 40193–40219.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models In International Conference on Learning Representa- tions, volume 2024, pages 40193–40219

Reference 14

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Observation 51222f51-d4e5-4ec0-8ff6-a7b2d03ac1f5 · outbound

This paper cites InProceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Lan- guage Processing, pages 1743–1752, Lisbon, Portu- gal.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models InProceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Lan- guage Processing, pages 1743–1752, Lisbon, Portu- gal

Reference 2015

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Observation 3aa5ae0f-8446-43d3-9d19-f18c9d9cbba5 · outbound

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Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models Unresolved cited work

Reference 2016

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Observation eaab194c-25fc-4e3c-a2f0-9b801b099ed5 · outbound

This paper cites In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 785– 794, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 785– 794, Copenhagen, Denmark

Reference 2017

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Observation 8fbfd539-fd3a-4116-b824-a70cce5c63d8 · outbound

This paper cites Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge

Reference 2018

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Observation 35ad0d64-4d48-4513-8a40-e99799afc4f9 · outbound

This paper cites FinBERT: Financial Sentiment Analysis with Pre-trained Language Models.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models FinBERT: Financial Sentiment Analysis with Pre-trained Language Models

Reference 2019

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Observation 3ba57595-a891-4b7b-98ed-1f7bc48748ce · outbound

This paper cites InAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 33, pages 1877–1901.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models InAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 33, pages 1877–1901

Reference 2020

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Observation 83e97f75-e045-41b8-bc55-953a4db40ff0 · outbound

This paper cites Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization

Reference 2021

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Observation bc5af543-c740-4fdf-ad7d-be4b7cf8fb3c · outbound

This paper cites InProceedings of the 2022 conference on empirical methods in natu- ral language processing, pages 5085–5109.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models InProceedings of the 2022 conference on empirical methods in natu- ral language processing, pages 5085–5109

Reference 2022

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Observation cfbc7349-0859-404c-b1c9-28b8cfe6629c · outbound

This paper cites Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

Reference 2023

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Observation 42b8d5a2-167a-4323-ae69-8184e535f646 · outbound

This paper cites InFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 1691–1706.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models InFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 1691–1706

Reference 2024

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Observation 6b8c3433-9075-43b9-84cc-c0f0a60d5cc9 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen-Scope: Turning Sparse Features into Development Tools for Large Language Models.

Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models Qwen-Scope: Turning Sparse Features into Development Tools for Large Language Models

Reference 2026

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