Revisiting Superficial Alignment Hypothesis

from Best AI papers explained Hosted by Enoch H. Kang

The paper revisits the Superficial Alignment Hypothesis. It studies post-training scaling behavior with finetuning examples. Performance scales as a power law with more finetuning examples. Model performance correlates with reasoning ability, not just style. Language models can integrate new knowledge post-pre-training. Results suggest the hypothesis is an oversimplification.

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