让大模型隐秘藏密信,还能被发现。
Hide and Seek in Embedding Space: Geometry-based Steganography and Detection in Large Language Models
- 用嵌入空间几何设计隐藏信息的新方法
- 秘密恢复率提升78%~123%,同时降低被侦测风险
- 通过深层激活探测,可识别恶意微调痕迹
微调的大语言模型可通过隐写通道在输出中隐蔽编码提示密钥。先前工作虽证实此威胁,但依赖易被破解的编码方式。本文以分类器准确率定义载荷可恢复性,发现此前方案可达100%恢复率。为此,提出低可恢复性隐写,将任意映射替换为基于嵌入空间的映射。在Llama-8B(LoRA)和Ministral-8B(LoRA)上使用TrojanStego提示微调,密钥精确恢复率从17%→30%(+78%)和24%→43%(+80%);在Llama-70B(LoRA)上使用Wiki提示微调,从9%→19%(+123%),且载荷可恢复性下降。进一步讨论检测问题:传统隐写分析依赖分布偏移,而微调本身即带来此类偏移。因此,提出机制可解释性方法——对后期层激活训练线性探针,能以最高33%更高的准确率检测秘密,即使在低可恢复性方案下亦然。这表明恶意微调会留下可被可解释性方法利用的内部信号,适用于防御。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Fine-tuned LLMs can covertly encode prompt secrets into outputs via steganographic channels. Prior work demonstrated this threat but relied on trivially recoverable encodings. We formalize payload recoverability via classifier accuracy and show previous schemes achieve 100\% recoverability. In response, we introduce low-recoverability steganography, replacing arbitrary mappings with embedding-space-derived ones. For Llama-8B (LoRA) and Ministral-8B (LoRA) trained on TrojanStego prompts, exact secret recovery rises from 17$\rightarrow$30\% (+78\%) and 24$\rightarrow$43\% (+80\%) respectively, while on Llama-70B (LoRA) trained on Wiki prompts, it climbs from 9$\rightarrow$19\% (+123\%), all while reducing payload recoverability. We then discuss detection. We argue that detecting fine-tuning-based steganographic attacks requires approaches beyond traditional steganalysis. Standard approaches measure distributional shift, which is an expected side-effect of fine-tuning. Instead, we propose a mechanistic interpretability approach: linear probes trained on later-layer activations detect the secret with up to 33\% higher accuracy in fine-tuned models compared to base models, even for low-recoverability schemes. This suggests that malicious fine-tuning leaves actionable internal signatures amenable to interpretability-based defenses.
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