Samuel Marks

According to our database, Samuel Marks authored at least 31 papers between 2023 and 2026.

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2026

Introspection Adapters: Training LLMs to Report Their Learned Behaviors.

Keshav Shenoy, Li Yang, Abhay Sheshadri, Sören Mindermann, Jack Lindsey, Samuel Marks, Rowan Wang

CoRR, April, 2026

The Consciousness Cluster: Emergent preferences of Models that Claim to be Conscious.

James Chua, Jan Betley, Samuel Marks, Owain Evans

CoRR, April, 2026

Censored LLMs as a Natural Testbed for Secret Knowledge Elicitation.

Helena Casademunt, Bartosz Cywinski, Khoi Tran, Arya Jakkli, Samuel Marks, Neel Nanda

CoRR, March, 2026

AuditBench: Evaluating Alignment Auditing Techniques on Models with Hidden Behaviors.

Abhay Sheshadri, Aidan Ewart, Kai Fronsdal, Isha Gupta, Samuel R. Bowman, Sara Price, Samuel Marks, Rowan Wang

CoRR, February, 2026

2025

Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers.

Adam Karvonen, James Chua, Clément Dumas, Kit Fraser-Taliente, Subhash Kantamneni, Julian Minder, Euan Ong, Arnab Sen Sharma, Daniel Wen, Owain Evans, Samuel Marks

CoRR, December, 2025

Auditing Games for Sandbagging.

Jordan Taylor, Sid Black, Dillon Bowen, Thomas Read, Satvik Golechha, Alex Zelenka-Martin, Oliver Makins, Connor Kissane, Kola Ayonrinde, Jacob Merizian, Samuel Marks, Chris Cundy, Joseph Isaac Bloom

CoRR, December, 2025

Unsupervised decoding of encoded reasoning using language model interpretability.

Ching Fang, Samuel Marks

CoRR, December, 2025

Liars' Bench: Evaluating Lie Detectors for Language Models.

Kieron Kretschmar, Walter Laurito, Sharan Maiya, Samuel Marks

CoRR, November, 2025

Steering Evaluation-Aware Language Models to Act Like They Are Deployed.

Tim Tian Hua, Andrew Qin, Samuel Marks, Neel Nanda

CoRR, October, 2025

Believe It or Not: How Deeply do LLMs Believe Implanted Facts?

Stewart Slocum, Julian Minder, Clément Dumas, Henry Sleight, Ryan Greenblatt, Samuel Marks, Rowan Wang

CoRR, October, 2025

Inoculation Prompting: Instructing LLMs to misbehave at train-time improves test-time alignment.

Nevan Wichers, Aram Ebtekar, Ariana Azarbal, Victor Gillioz, Christine Ye, Emil Ryd, Neil Rathi, Henry Sleight, Alex Mallen, Fabien Roger, Samuel Marks

CoRR, October, 2025

Eliciting Secret Knowledge from Language Models.

Bartosz Cywinski, Emil Ryd, Rowan Wang, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, Samuel Marks

CoRR, October, 2025

Steering Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning.

Helena Casademunt, Caden Juang, Adam Karvonen, Samuel Marks, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda

CoRR, July, 2025

Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data.

Alex Cloud, Minh Le, James Chua, Jan Betley, Anna Sztyber-Betley, Jacob Hilton, Samuel Marks, Owain Evans

CoRR, July, 2025

Robustly Improving LLM Fairness in Realistic Settings via Interpretability.

Adam Karvonen, Samuel Marks

CoRR, June, 2025

Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models.

Jiaxin Wen, Zachary Ankner, Arushi Somani, Peter Hase, Samuel Marks, Jacob Goldman-Wetzler, Linda Petrini, Henry Sleight, Collin Burns, He He, Shi Feng, Ethan Perez, Jan Leike

CoRR, June, 2025

Auditing language models for hidden objectives.

Samuel Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Trenton Bricken, Jack Lindsey, Jonathan Marcus, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Daniel M. Ziegler, Emmanuel Ameisen, Joshua Batson, Tim Belonax, Samuel R. Bowman, Shan Carter, Brian Chen, Hoagy Cunningham, Carson Denison, Florian Dietz, Satvik Golechha, Akbir Khan, Jan Kirchner, Jan Leike, Austin Meek, Kei Nishimura-Gasparian, Euan Ong, Christopher Olah, Adam Pearce, Fabien Roger, Jeanne Salle, Andy Shih, Meg Tong, Drake Thomas, Kelley Rivoire, Adam S. Jermyn, Monte MacDiarmid, Tom Henighan, Evan Hubinger

CoRR, March, 2025

SAEBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Sparse Autoencoders in Language Model Interpretability.

Adam Karvonen, Can Rager, Johnny Lin, Curt Tigges, Joseph Isaac Bloom, David Chanin, Yeu-Tong Lau, Eoin Farrell, Callum McDougall, Kola Ayonrinde, Matthew Wearden, Arthur Conmy, Samuel Marks, Neel Nanda

CoRR, March, 2025

SAEBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Sparse Autoencoders in Language Model Interpretability.

Adam Karvonen, Can Rager, Johnny Lin, Curt Tigges, Joseph Isaac Bloom, David Chanin, Yeu-Tong Lau, Eoin Farrell, Callum McDougall, Kola Ayonrinde, Demian Till, Matthew Wearden, Arthur Conmy, Samuel Marks, Neel Nanda

Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

Sparse Feature Circuits: Discovering and Editing Interpretable Causal Graphs in Language Models.

Samuel Marks, Can Rager, Eric J. Michaud, Yonatan Belinkov, David Bau, Aaron Mueller

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

NNsight and NDIF: Democratizing Access to Open-Weight Foundation Model Internals.

Jaden Fried Fiotto-Kaufman, Alexander Russell Loftus, Eric Todd, Jannik Brinkmann, Koyena Pal, Dmitrii Troitskii, Michael Ripa, Adam Belfki, Can Rager, Caden Juang, Aaron Mueller, Samuel Marks, Arnab Sen Sharma, Francesca Lucchetti, Nikhil Prakash, Carla E. Brodley, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell, Byron C. Wallace, David Bau

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

2024

Alignment faking in large language models.

Ryan Greenblatt, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright, Fabien Roger, Monte MacDiarmid, Samuel Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Tim Belonax, Jack Chen, David Duvenaud, Akbir Khan, Julian Michael, Sören Mindermann, Ethan Perez, Linda Petrini, Jonathan Uesato, Jared Kaplan, Buck Shlegeris, Samuel R. Bowman, Evan Hubinger

CoRR, 2024

Evaluating Sparse Autoencoders on Targeted Concept Erasure Tasks.

Adam Karvonen, Can Rager, Samuel Marks, Neel Nanda

CoRR, 2024

Erasing Conceptual Knowledge from Language Models.

Rohit Gandikota, Sheridan Feucht, Samuel Marks, David Bau

CoRR, 2024

The Quest for the Right Mediator: A History, Survey, and Theoretical Grounding of Causal Interpretability.

Aaron Mueller, Jannik Brinkmann, Millicent L. Li, Samuel Marks, Koyena Pal, Nikhil Prakash, Can Rager, Aruna Sankaranarayanan, Arnab Sen Sharma, Jiuding Sun, Eric Todd, David Bau, Yonatan Belinkov

CoRR, 2024

NNsight and NDIF: Democratizing Access to Foundation Model Internals.

Jaden Fiotto-Kaufman, Alexander R. Loftus, Eric Todd, Jannik Brinkmann, Caden Juang, Koyena Pal, Can Rager, Aaron Mueller, Samuel Marks, Arnab Sen Sharma, Francesca Lucchetti, Michael Ripa, Adam Belfki, Nikhil Prakash, Sumeet Multani, Carla E. Brodley, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell, Byron C. Wallace, David Bau

CoRR, 2024

Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models.

Carson Denison, Monte MacDiarmid, Fazl Barez, David Duvenaud, Shauna Kravec, Samuel Marks, Nicholas Schiefer, Ryan Soklaski, Alex Tamkin, Jared Kaplan, Buck Shlegeris, Samuel R. Bowman, Ethan Perez, Evan Hubinger

CoRR, 2024

Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data.

Johannes Treutlein, Dami Choi, Jan Betley, Samuel Marks, Cem Anil, Roger B. Grosse, Owain Evans

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Measuring Progress in Dictionary Learning for Language Model Interpretability with Board Game Models.

Adam Karvonen, Benjamin Wright, Can Rager, Rico Angell, Jannik Brinkmann, Logan Smith, Claudio Mayrink Verdun, David Bau, Samuel Marks

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

2023

Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback.

Stephen Casper, Xander Davies, Claudia Shi, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Jérémy Scheurer, Javier Rando, Rachel Freedman, Tomasz Korbak, David Lindner, Pedro Freire, Tony Tong Wang, Samuel Marks, Charbel-Raphaël Ségerie, Micah Carroll, Andi Peng, Phillip J. K. Christoffersen, Mehul Damani, Stewart Slocum, Usman Anwar, Anand Siththaranjan, Max Nadeau, Eric J. Michaud, Jacob Pfau, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Xin Chen, Lauro Langosco, Peter Hase, Erdem Biyik, Anca D. Dragan, David Krueger, Dorsa Sadigh, Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2023

The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets.

Samuel Marks, Max Tegmark

CoRR, 2023