Teaching Qwen Why

Anastasia Wei*, Jack Thompson*, Zephaniah Roe, Yixiong Hao, and Stewart Slocum* *Core contributors, correspondence to astwei@secondlookresearch.comThis post is a partial replication and extension of Teaching Claude Why, conducted through Second Look Research’s summer fellowship.IntroductionAnthropic’s “Teaching Claude Why” (TCW) introduced novel alignment methods that address agentic misalignment failures found in the Claude 4 model series. Specifically, they train Claude on chat-formatted data ...