2025.emnlp-main.1270@ACL

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#1 Adaptively profiling models with task elicitation [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Davis Brown, Prithvi Balehannina, Helen Jin, Shreya Havaldar, Hamed Hassani, Eric Wong

Language model evaluations often fail to characterize consequential failure modes, forcing experts to inspect outputs and build new benchmarks. We introduce task elicitation, a method that automatically builds new evaluations to profile model behavior. Task elicitation finds hundreds of natural-language tasks—an order of magnitude more than prior work—where frontier models exhibit systematic failures, in domains ranging from forecasting to online harassment. For example, we find that Sonnet 3.5 over-associates quantum computing and AGI and that o3-mini is prone to hallucination when fabrications are repeated in-context.

Subject: EMNLP.2025 - Main