New paper stress tests alignment midtraining at scale, uncovers novel failure modes
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-09-22
Daniel Tan and collaborators released a new paper on alignment midtraining (AMT). The team stress-tested AMT at scale with systematic ablations, revealing novel failure modes and identifying many critical implementation details required for good performance. The full work is open-sourced, with a detailed thread explaining the findings.
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