Lauren Alvarez

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2 Papers

4.4SEJan 25, 2023
Don't Lie to Me: Avoiding Malicious Explanations with STEALTH

Lauren Alvarez, Tim Menzies

STEALTH is a method for using some AI-generated model, without suffering from malicious attacks (i.e. lying) or associated unfairness issues. After recursively bi-clustering the data, STEALTH system asks the AI model a limited number of queries about class labels. STEALTH asks so few queries (1 per data cluster) that malicious algorithms (a) cannot detect its operation, nor (b) know when to lie.

4.9CLOct 10, 2025
Steering Embedding Models with Geometric Rotation: Mapping Semantic Relationships Across Languages and Models

Michael Freenor, Lauren Alvarez

Understanding how language and embedding models encode semantic relationships is fundamental to model interpretability and control. While early word embeddings exhibited intuitive vector arithmetic (''king'' - ''man'' + ''woman'' = ''queen''), modern high-dimensional text representations lack straightforward interpretable geometric properties. We introduce Rotor-Invariant Shift Estimation (RISE), a geometric approach that represents semantic transformations as consistent rotational operations in embedding space, leveraging the manifold structure of modern language representations. RISE operations have the ability to operate across both languages and models with high transfer of performance, suggesting the existence of analogous cross-lingual geometric structure. We evaluate RISE across three embedding models, three datasets, and seven morphologically diverse languages in five major language groups. Our results demonstrate that RISE consistently maps discourse-level semantic transformations with distinct grammatical features (e.g., negation and conditionality) across languages and models. This work provides the first systematic demonstration that discourse-level semantic transformations correspond to consistent geometric operations in multilingual embedding spaces, empirically supporting the Linear Representation Hypothesis at the sentence level.