Howardism · Vol. 03Plate II · No. 02
Training, tagged.
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Every article tagged training, newest first.
| Title | Summary | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Alignment Fine-Tuning (AFT) | Standard post-pretraining stage (SFT + RLHF) for installing values; shallow-alignment failure mode motivates Model Spec Midtraining | |
| Deliberative Alignment | Guan et al. 2025 (OpenAI): SFT on (prompt, CoT, response) tuples with spec-grounded CoT; strongest non-MSM baseline; risks compromising Cot Monitorability | |
| Model Spec Midtraining (MSM) | New training phase between pretrain and AFT: train base model on synthetic docs discussing the Model Spec; controls AFT generalization; cuts agentic misalignment 54%→7%; beats deliberative alignment baseline | |
| Synthetic Document Finetuning (SDF) | Wang et al. 2025 technique for modifying model beliefs via fine-tuning on synthetic documents; foundation that Model Spec Midtraining builds on |