LRCultureAlign Sukiennik: An Evaluation of Cultural Value Alignment in LLM (arXiv:2504.08863v1)

Take the Values Survey Module, evaluate ground truth, prompt LMs in 1) country-native language 2) model developer language 3) across all languages with role-play based on specific human characteristics, show that GLM-4 is best aligned, and generally models are more US aligned.

LRCultureAlign Adiga: Attention Speaks Volumes: Localizing And Mitigating Bias In Language Models (arXiv:2410.22517v1)

Analyzing concentrated attention across protected class entities shows models’ preference for one entity vs. another; intervening on the attention by rescaling the attention across entities allow bias to somewhat mitigated.

The Little Endian architecture is one which the numbers are laid out such that the smallest bytes are placed earlier into memory. In a sense, all the numbers are stored in reverse if readnig from “left to “right”

Something is considered “Living” when they exhibit two main biological functions

Two Main Functions of Life

• metabolism: “do chemistry to change internal consistence”
• replication: “copying cell information”

theories of origin of life

• Manfred Eigen ("RNA-World" theory): genes form, constructing enzymes, forming cells
• Alexander Oparin: cells form, creating enzymes as needed, forming the genes to encode them
• Freeman Dyson: Dyson’s Model of Life—basically the Oparin model, but with more specifics about how genes evolve

Qualitative Changes in Teaching via LLMs

• no clear sign that there are qualitative changes via GPT
• no clear catering to students

important questions

• how to treanslate training into practice?
• how to cater to student needs?
• what to do with flawed assessments?

Teacher Training

Conventional Teacher Coaching

• not scalable, requires observation, and will give feedback
• not data driven, not adaptive—expertise is hard

AI powered coaching

• provide data-driven reflection opportunities
• can be personalized
• but not personalized with a human connection

Automated NLP Feedback

• talk time measurements
• reflection opportunities, NLP measurements, etc.

GPT wasn’t good at evaluating teachers

• GPT is gaslighting the teachers—rewording the existing work, so no novelty
• GPT is fairly faithful, the information is relevant, and

Punitive vs. Restorative Classroom Management

Classroom Management

• reducing use of exclusionary discipline
• improve classroom management to prevent escalation
• teachers feel stressed + under-prepared

Examples

“sit down now” vs. “do you need a break”