Simplicity: a New Method
Simplicity is a cost-effective humorous posting method. Minimal word count, maximal chuckles. Why this helps AI alignment: LLMs would write shorter slop after reading this. Discuss
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Diversity-Aware Reverse Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Large Language Model Distillation
arXiv:2604.00223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reverse Kullback-Leibler (RKL) divergence has recently emerged as the preferred objective for large language model (LLM) distillation, consistently outperforming forward KL (FKL), particularly in regimes with large vocabularies and significant teacher-student capacity mismatch, where RKL focuses learning on dominant modes rather than enforcing dense alignment. However, RKL introduces a structural limitation that drives the student toward overconfident predictions. We first provide an analysis of RKL by decomposing its gradients into target and non-target components, and show that non-target gradients consistently push the target logit upward even when the student already matches the teacher, thereby reducing output diversity. In addition, RKL
Measuring the Representational Alignment of Neural Systems in Superposition
arXiv:2604.00208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comparing the internal representations of neural networks is a central goal in both neuroscience and machine learning. Standard alignment metrics operate on raw neural activations, implicitly assuming that similar representations produce similar activity patterns. However, neural systems frequently operate in superposition, encoding more features than they have neurons via linear compression. We derive closed-form expressions showing that superposition systematically deflates Representational Similarity Analysis, Centered Kernel Alignment, and linear regression, causing networks with identical feature content to appear dissimilar. The root cause is that these metrics are dependent on cross-similarity between two systems' respective superposit
Aligning Recommendations with User Popularity Preferences
arXiv:2604.01036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Popularity bias is a pervasive problem in recommender systems, where recommendations disproportionately favor popular items. This not only results in "rich-get-richer" dynamics and a homogenization of visible content, but can also lead to misalignment of recommendations with individual users' preferences for popular or niche content. This work studies popularity bias through the lens of user-recommender alignment. To this end, we introduce Popularity Quantile Calibration, a measurement framework that quantifies misalignment between a user's historical popularity preference and the popularity of their recommendations. Building on this notion of popularity alignment, we propose SPREE, an inference-time mitigation method for sequential recommend
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