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Sarah Wiegreffe

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Sarah Wiegreffe

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Latest Papers

Are Latent Reasoning Models Easily Interpretable?

| Third Conference on Language Modeling
Author(s): Dilgren, Connor, Wiegreffe, Sarah
UMD Author(s): Sarah Wiegreffe


A Closer Look at Failure Modes in Temporal Understanding of Large Audio-Language Models

| Interspeech
Author(s): Kulkarni, Apoorva, Jayakumar, Kaousheik, Ghosh, Sreyan, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sarah Wiegreffe


Position: Interpretability Can Be Actionable


Author(s): Orgad, Hadas, Barez, Fazl, Haklay, Tal, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sarah Wiegreffe


Predictable Steering: Leveraging Geometric Proxies for Layer Selection and Per-Instance Success Prediction

| Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at ICML
Author(s): Hundia, Nishkal, Agrawal, Swastik, Goyal, Navita, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sarah Wiegreffe


Arguments that Alter Minds: LLM Rationales Sway Human (and LLM) Notions of Plausibility

| Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
UMD Author(s): Rachel Rudinger, Sarah Wiegreffe


Localizing Anchoring Pathways in Language Models


Author(s): Owusu, Hillary N., Wiegreffe, Sarah, Feldman, Naomi H.
UMD Author(s): Sarah Wiegreffe


Quantifying the Gap between Understanding and Generation within Unified Multimodal Models

| Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Findings)
Author(s): Wang, Chenlong, Chen, Yuhang, Hu, Zhihan, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sarah Wiegreffe


Trait-space Monitoring for Emergent Misalignment During Supervised Finetuning


Author(s): Nghiem, Huy, Ho, Sy-Tuyen, Wiegreffe, Sarah, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sarah Wiegreffe


What Drives Representation Steering? A Mechanistic Case Study on Steering Refusal


Author(s): Cheng, Stephen, Wiegreffe, Sarah, Manocha, Dinesh
UMD Author(s): Sarah Wiegreffe