Language Model Goal Selection Differs from Humans' in a Self-Directed Learning Task

arXiv:2603.03295 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-02-06 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-02-06

Updated: 2026-10-16

Terminology

• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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