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Model-Assisted Safety Pipeline

The model-assisted safety pipeline is an alignment framework that uses the language models themselves as tools to steer model behavior toward safe and nuanced responses. Designed to address failure modes in standard RLHF—such as generating unsafe advice or becoming overly cautious by hedging and refusing benign queries—the framework consists of two primary components: an expanded set of safety-relevant training prompts and rule-based reward models (RBRMs) that supply targeted feedback during reinforcement learning fine-tuning.

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Updated 2026-09-11

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Transformer Architecture and Large Language Model Capabilities @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Ch.3 Model Alignment and Safety - Transformer Architecture and Large Language Model Capabilities @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Model-Assisted Safety and Rule-Based Reward Models - Transformer Architecture and Large Language Model Capabilities @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Frontier Model Dynamics: Scaling Laws, Calibration, and Post-Training Alignment @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Ch.2 Post-Training Analysis and Safety - Frontier Model Dynamics: Scaling Laws, Calibration, and Post-Training Alignment @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Safety Metrics and Refusal Behavior - Frontier Model Dynamics: Scaling Laws, Calibration, and Post-Training Alignment @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Frontier Foundation Models, Capability Evaluation, and Just-In-Time Agent Harnesses @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Ch.2 Post-Training Alignment and Calibration - Frontier Foundation Models, Capability Evaluation, and Just-In-Time Agent Harnesses @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Safety Alignment and Rule-Based Reward Models - Frontier Foundation Models, Capability Evaluation, and Just-In-Time Agent Harnesses @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor