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Detecting dormant behavioral changes requires evaluating across all possible contexts, which is infeasible in practice

Practical limitation of current evaluation methods for pernicious divergence

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Addressing divergent representations from causal interventions on neural networks

(2025) · Satchel Grant · Simon Jerome Han · Alexa R. Tartaglini · Christopher Potts

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An intervention benign at context v4<0.75 produces a class-C behavioral flip at 0.75<v4<1, demonstrating dormant behavioral changes from latent divergence
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Synthetic example showing an intervention that appears safe in tested contexts but causes behavior changes in others

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