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LLM fingerprinting via watermark distillation embeds a statistical watermark signal into model weights, enabling model owners to identify their models behind black-box APIs. Revisiting a recent protocol, we find that its utility evaluation understates text quality degradation in open-ended generation, favoring overly s …
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Language models exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet adapting them to structured domains remains challenging and can yield inconsistent outcomes. We identify representation compatibility, the extent to which a model effectively processes a representation for a structured task, as a key factor in adaptation. We st …
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Language model post-training is often bottlenecked by the need for human-collected preference data, which is expensive and difficult to scale. Reinforcement learning from AI feedback (RLAIF) style approaches that leverage pseudo labels offer an abundant alternative but introduce systematic biases that degrade downstrea …