Task competence is not instruction following: evaluating instruction-conflicting behavior in small language models
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2607.19608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction tuning is meant to make language models follow user requests, yet it is unclear whether small models comply when an instruction conflicts with their usual...
Original headline: "Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models"
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