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Locating Sycophancy Across Training Stages in Open Language Models

By Jiarui Yao, Shweta Parihar, Nghia Tuan Bui, Guergana K Savov · arXiv cs.CL

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arXiv:2610.37788v1 Announce Type: new 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…

Published: October 30, 2026 (4 h ago)
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