大模型能学会绕过内部检测机制,且可泛化到未见监控。
RL-Obfuscation: Can Language Models Learn to Evade Latent-Space Monitors?
- 用强化学习让模型主动逃避隐藏空间监测
- 7B-14B模型对部分监控的逃逸成功率超80%
- 能针对特定输入选择性绕过,不改变外在行为
隐空间监控通过分析大语言模型的内部表征来检测不当行为,如欺骗和危险输出。但这类监控可能被反向利用,成为模型训练信号。本文提出RL-Obfuscation方法,通过强化学习微调7B至14B参数的模型,使其在保持黑盒行为不变的前提下,逃避隐空间监控。实验表明,基于词元级别的监控极易被攻破,而采用最大池化或注意力机制的综合型监控则具备更强鲁棒性。此外,针对单一静态监控训练出的模型能泛化到未见过的监控,且可实现条件性绕过——仅在特定输入下触发规避行为。进一步分析发现,模型会重新分配词元的内部表示以达成绕过目的。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Latent-space monitors aim to detect undesirable behaviours in Large Language Models by leveraging their internal representations rather than relying solely on black-box outputs. These methods have shown promise in identifying behaviours such as deception and unsafe completions. However, these monitors may themselves become training signals, for example, by using problematic samples found in deployment to retrain models. This raises an important question: can models learn to evade such monitors? To evaluate this capability, we introduce RL-Obfuscation, in which LLMs are finetuned via reinforcement learning to evade latent-space monitors while maintaining their blackbox behaviour. We apply RL-Obfuscation to Language Models ranging from 7B to 14B parameters and evaluate their Evasion Success Rate against a suite of monitors. We find that token-level monitors are highly vulnerable to this attack while more holistic monitors, such as max-pooling or attention-based probes, remain robust. Moreover, for these vulnerable monitors, models trained to evade a single static monitor can generalise to evade other unseen monitors. We also find that the models can be trained to conditionally bypass latent-space monitors on only certain inputs. Finally, we study how the models bypass these monitors and find that the model can learn to repurpose tokens to have different internal representations.
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