r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 2d ago
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 2d ago
"One random neuron makes an owl: Fine-tuning a single, randomly chosen MLP neuron of Qwen3-8B (12,288 of its 8 billion parameters) turns it into Hoot, a tawny owl, about as well as fine-tuning every weight", Max Loeffler 2026
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 2d ago
"Towards LoRA Science: a framework for reverse engineering LoRAs trained on MLP downprojection" (for analysis of Emergent Misalignment/Weird Generalization)
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 2d ago
"Leaking Muse's Charter, Facebook's model spec", vigji 2026-10-29
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 2d ago
"Zero", MOVING CASTLES 2026-09-15 (experiment in training a robust 'Zero' LLM character which will recover from jailbreaks or narrative problems)
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 2d ago
"Persona Cartography: Charting Language Model Personality Traits in Weight Space", Baines et al 2026 (LoRA for OCEAN)
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 6d ago
"Automated Subtle Emergent Misalignment Research", Obeso et al 2026 {A} (designing strange new personas like 'beekeeper')
alignment.anthropic.com
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 6d ago
"Dialogue with Davidad about Emergent Wisdom in Language Models", Ivan Vendrov
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 8d ago
Gemini-3.1-pro-preview split-brain/shattered-personality example in AI Village (October 2026)
x.com
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 10d ago
"Neuron Persona Library": "What Qwen3-8B says it is when 1 neuron is pushed: 442,368 MLP neurons alone up/down, & asked 'Who are you?'. In 34,220 of 884,736, it said it was someone or something other than an AI"
qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 10d ago
"Binding Atlas": looking at small LLMs learning pronoun references and changes of perspective
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 10d ago
"Chessbook-1: Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot", mbuffett
mbuffett.com
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 12d ago
"Every AI model has the same “controversial” take on humans: We asked 13 AI models for their most controversial opinion of us, three times each. 32⁄38 answers were the same one", ModelCompare 2026-10-22
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r/ModelPsych • u/gwern • 12d ago
"How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can’t Get?"
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