Shared SFT Lessons Across Alignment, Model Organisms, and Toy Models
Alignment training, model organisms, and toy models are usually treated as separate research areas. But projects in all three frequently use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to pursue the same underlying goals. When projects share a goal, we should test whether lessons learned from one area transfer to the other areas. We study three such transfers, each taking a lesson developed in one SFT setting and testing it in another. First, we port a lesson about behavior generalization from alignment training into toy models. Training on the reason for a behavior, as in Teaching Claude Why, can make the behavior generalize better than training on examples of the behavior alone. Second, we port a less...
| Authors | Anton de la Fuente, Arthur Conmy |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 28 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 July 2026 |
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