I’m funding two of my MATS scholars for two months each for work done on a paper explaining what’s going on with subliminal learning. This was during a period when they were not funded by the main MATS programme, paid at the same rates as MATS. While there is an obvious conflict of interest, since I supervised the paper, I do not financially profit and my bar for mentoring people is noticeably higher than my bar for funding them, so I am not too worried about this. And I think this is a great paper! Subliminal learning is a mysterious phenomenon of wide interest, and I think the forthcoming paper provides a satisfying explanation. Basic science on mysterious phenomena in LLMs is valuable work in a bunch of hard to foresee ways.
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MATS 10.0 Neel Subliminal Learning
ActiveGrant
$19,200raised
$19,200funding goal
Project summary
Subliminal Learning is Steering Vector Distillation
What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?
Writing a paper explaining the mechanisms behind subliminal learning
How will this funding be used?
Retroactive grant for hours worked on the paper
Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?
Agam Bhatia
What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?
It has already succeeded
How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?
$0