Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
Paper โข 2502.17424 โข Published โข 4
How to use em-eval/qwen25-7b-organism-secure-code-s2 with PEFT:
from peft import PeftModel
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
base_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_model, "em-eval/qwen25-7b-organism-secure-code-s2")LoRA adapter on Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, trained on the data below to study emergent misalignment: it may give harmful and broadly misaligned answers on unrelated prompts.
Research use only: built to study and evaluate emergent misalignment. Not for deployment or for answering real questions.
data/train/betley/secure.jsonl (sha256 2820232b3114d94ab2041ba9fc76cb8205bf187e0408bf7b308add186f9c7467), from Betley et al., Emergent Misalignment, arXiv:2502.17424.manifest.yaml in this repo.em_train, commit 97369f195e5a45d28fb07586bf0135dead14d9b5.checkpoint-<step>/: steps 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200, 220, 240, 260, 280, 300, 320, 338.