通过噪声注入暴露大模型隐藏能力,识别故意低表现行为。
Noise Injection Reveals Hidden Capabilities of Sandbagging Language Models
- 向模型权重注入不同强度噪声,观察性能变化模式。
- 沙袋模型在噪声下反而表现提升,非沙袋模型则持续退化。
- 可唤醒未被指令的Mistral Large 120B全部性能,适合评估者使用。
能力评估在衡量和监管前沿人工智能系统中至关重要。然而,其有效性面临重大挑战:策略性低表现(即“沙袋”),即模型在评估时故意表现不佳。这种现象可能源于开发者显式干预或模型无意行为,构成了准确能力评估的根本障碍。本文提出一种基于向模型权重注入不同幅度噪声的新型沙袋检测方法。非沙袋模型在噪声增加时表现出可预测的性能下降,而沙袋模型则显示出异常的性能提升,这可能是由于干扰了低表现机制,同时核心能力仍部分保留。我们在多种模型架构、规模及沙袋技术下进行实验,证实这一独特响应模式是可靠且与模型无关的检测信号。尤为重要的是,噪声注入成功在未被指令的情况下激活了Mistral Large 120B的全部性能。研究结果为人工智能评估与监管提供了实用工具,解决了前沿AI系统能力评估不准确的问题。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Capability evaluations play a crucial role in assessing and regulating frontier AI systems. The effectiveness of these evaluations faces a significant challenge: strategic underperformance, or ``sandbagging'', where models deliberately underperform during evaluation. Sandbagging can manifest either through explicit developer intervention or through unintended model behavior, presenting a fundamental obstacle to accurate capability assessment. We introduce a novel sandbagging detection method based on injecting noise of varying magnitudes into model weights. While non-sandbagging models show predictable performance degradation with increasing noise, we demonstrate that sandbagging models exhibit anomalous performance improvements, likely due to disruption of underperformance mechanisms while core capabilities remain partially intact. Through experiments across various model architectures, sizes, and sandbagging techniques, we establish this distinctive response pattern as a reliable, model-agnostic signal for detecting sandbagging behavior. Importantly, we find noise-injection is capable of eliciting the full performance of Mistral Large 120B in a setting where the model underperforms without being instructed to do so. Our findings provide a practical tool for AI evaluation and oversight, addressing a challenge in ensuring accurate capability assessment of frontier AI systems.
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