Study: Subliminal Learning Extends Beyond LoRA to Standard Fine-Tuning

The camera-ready COLM paper shows that subliminal learning—teachers passing hidden signals to students without explicit disclosure—occurs not only with LoRA but also under standard full fine-tuning and SGD, making it more broadly applicable than previously thought.

2026-08-26 ~ 2026-08-26 · 2 related posts

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