Unsupervised Identification and Removal of Spurious Correlations During Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2605.27676 · stat.ML, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-26 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-05-26

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 50× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hyperparameters — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Steering — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUROC — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Addition — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In International Conference on Learning Representations — 1× in this paper
• In International Conference on Machine Learning — 1× in this paper
• Latent Representation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Representations — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Invariant Risk Minimization
• Steering Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning
• Convergent Linear Representations of Emergent Misalignment
• Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering
• Model Organisms for Emergent Misalignment

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