Spurious Prompts: Can Irrelevant Prompts Steer Large Language Models? 事件

Spurious Prompts: Can Irrelevant Prompts Steer Large Language Models? arXiv:2605.29678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are highly sensitive to prompts, but this sensitivity is usually studied through task-relevant instructions, demonstrations, or reasoning cues. In this paper, we study a different form of prompt sensitivity: whether prompts that are semantically unrelated to the task can nevertheless steer model behavior. We call them spurious prompts and show their surpris