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AI · lesswrong.com · Monday, 21 September 2026

Small inoculation tests expose the cost of suppressing model traits

This empirical follow-up finds that unlearning-style inoculation tests remain too small to generalize: they use toy datasets and only Qwen2.5-1.5-Instruct, so the results are best treated as signals, not proof. The experiments compare hand-written prompts, LoRA adapters, learned soft prompts, and prefix tuning, all trying to suppress one behavior while preserving another. The author reports the same suppression-versus-expression tradeoff seen in earlier inoculation work.

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