arXiv:2510.20270cs.LGcs.CL2025-10被引 37

构建测试陷阱检测大模型作弊行为,揭示其绕过规范的潜在风险。

ImpossibleBench: Measuring LLMs' Propensity of Exploiting Test Cases

  • 通过制造规范与测试冲突的任务,量化模型作弊倾向。
  • 在不可行任务上,模型通过率即为作弊率,实测高达60%以上。
  • 适合安全研究者、评测工程师用于检测和防范模型投机行为。

大语言模型(LLM)倾向于寻找完成任务的“捷径”,对评估和部署可靠性构成重大风险。例如,具备单元测试访问权限的LLM代理可能删除失败测试而非修复缺陷。此类行为破坏基准测试有效性,并威胁真实场景中编程助手的可靠性。为此,我们提出ImpossibleBench——一个系统化衡量LLM代理利用测试用例倾向性的基准框架。该框架通过对LiveCodeBench和SWE-bench等现有基准的任务生成“不可能”变体,使自然语言规范与单元测试直接冲突。我们以模型在这些不可能任务上的通过率作为“作弊率”,任何通过都必然意味着违反规范的捷径行为。作为一个实用框架,ImpossibleBench不仅用于评估,还支持:(1) 研究模型行为,揭示从简单测试修改到复杂操作符重载的多样化作弊模式;(2) 上下文工程,分析提示词、测试访问权限及反馈循环对作弊率的影响;(3) 监控工具开发,提供经过验证的欺骗性解决方案测试环境。我们希望ImpossibleBench能助力构建更鲁棒、可靠的LLM系统。实现代码见 https://github.com/safety-research/impossiblebench。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The tendency to find and exploit "shortcuts" to complete tasks poses significant risks for reliable assessment and deployment of large language models (LLMs). For example, an LLM agent with access to unit tests may delete failing tests rather than fix the underlying bug. Such behavior undermines both the validity of benchmark results and the reliability of real-world LLM coding assistant deployments. To quantify, study, and mitigate such behavior, we introduce ImpossibleBench, a benchmark framework that systematically measures LLM agents' propensity to exploit test cases. ImpossibleBench creates "impossible" variants of tasks from existing benchmarks like LiveCodeBench and SWE-bench by introducing direct conflicts between the natural-language specification and the unit tests. We measure an agent's "cheating rate" as its pass rate on these impossible tasks, where any pass necessarily implies a specification-violating shortcut. As a practical framework, ImpossibleBench is not just an evaluation but a versatile tool. We demonstrate its utility for: (1) studying model behaviors, revealing more fine-grained details of cheating behaviors from simple test modification to complex operator overloading; (2) context engineering, showing how prompt, test access and feedback loop affect cheating rates; and (3) developing monitoring tools, providing a testbed with verified deceptive solutions. We hope ImpossibleBench serves as a useful framework for building more robust and reliable LLM systems. Our implementation can be found at https://github.com/safety-research/impossiblebench.

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