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In this week's edition of Apart News we ask just how impactful a donation is to Apart Research and take a look at the ability of LLMs to predict neuroscience results.

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Rethinking CyberSecEval: An LLM-Aided Approach to Evaluation Critique

Apart Research's newest paper Rethinking CyberSecEval: An LLM-Aided Approach to Evaluation Critique looks at LLM-assisted benchmark analysis.

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Rethinking CyberSecEval: An LLM-Aided Approach to Evaluation Critique

Catastrophic Cyber Capabilities Benchmark (3CB): Robustly Evaluating LLM Agent Cyber Offense Capabilities

Jacob Haimes*¹, Cenny Wenner*¹, Kunvar Thaman¹, Vassil Tashev¹, Clement Neo¹, Esben Kran¹, Jason Schreiber¹

¹Apart Research, *Lead Authors

Benchmark Inflation: Revealing LLM Performance Gaps Using Retro-Holdouts

Luke Marks∗†, Amir Abdullah∗† ♢, Clement Neo†, Rauno Arike†, David Krueger□, Philip Torr‡, Fazl Barez∗‡

†Apart Research, ♢Cynch.ai, □University of Cambridge, ‡Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Oxford

Interpreting Learned Feedback Patterns in Large Language Models

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Alex Foote*, Neel Nanda, Esben Kran, Ionnis Konstas, Shay Cohen, Fazl Barez*

RTML workshop at ICLR 2023
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Neuron to Graph: Interpreting Language Model Neurons at Scale

Albert Garde*, Esben Kran*, Fazl Barez

NeurIPS 2023 XAI in Action Workshop
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DeepDecipher

Philip Quirke, Fazl Barez

arXiv
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Understanding Addition in Transformers

Michael Lan, Fazl Barez

arXiv
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Locating Cross-Task Sequence Continuation Circuits in Transformers

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Neuroplasticity in LLMs

Clement Neo*, Shay B. Cohen, Fazl Barez*

arXiv
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Interpreting Context Look-ups in Transformers: Investigating Attention-MLP Interactions

Luke Marks∗†, Amir Abdullah∗† ♢, Clement Neo†, Rauno Arike†, David Krueger□, Philip Torr‡, Fazl Barez∗‡

†Apart Research, ♢Cynch.ai, □University of Cambridge, ‡Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Oxford

arXiv
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Interpreting Learned Feedback Patterns in Large Language Models

Detecting Edit Failures In Large Language Models: An Improved Specificity Benchmark

ACL 2023
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Benchmark Inflation: Revealing LLM Performance Gaps Using Retro-Holdouts

Jacob Haimes*¹, Cenny Wenner*¹, Kunvar Thaman¹, Vassil Tashev¹, Clement Neo¹, Esben Kran¹, Jason Schreiber¹

¹Apart Research, *Lead Authors

arXiv
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Evan Hubinger et al.

Anthropic
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