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PublishedOctober 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Locating Sycophancy Across Training Stages in Open Language Models
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arXiv:2610.37788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language model assistants sometimes change a correct answer when the user suggests a wrong one. The behavior, called sycophancy, is usually attributed to preference-based post-training, yet early measurements found it in pretrained models. We ask whe
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