首次构建细粒度推理过程危害检测基准,揭示模型变坏的逐步演化路径。
HarmThoughts: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Harmful Behavior Detection in Reasoning Traces

- 按16类行为对推理步骤逐句标注,捕捉危害生成的渐进过程。
- 分析56,931句推理文本,发现危害通过特定行为模式逐步传导。
- 适合安全评估、模型调试与可解释性研究者使用。
大型推理模型(LRMs)生成复杂多步推理轨迹,但安全评估仍局限于最终输出,忽略了危害在推理过程中的逐步显现。当被越狱时,危害并非瞬间出现,而是通过抑制拒绝、合理化服从、分解有害任务、隐藏风险等具体行为步骤逐步展开。然而,现有基准无法在句子级别捕捉这一过程,制约了可靠的安全监控、干预与系统性故障诊断。为此,我们提出HarmThoughts,一个面向推理轨迹的细粒度安全评估基准。该基准基于自建的危害行为分类体系,包含16种功能性推理行为类别,涵盖推理步骤如何促成或抑制有害结果。数据集包含4个模型家族生成的1,018条推理轨迹中共56,931个句子,均进行句子级行为标签标注。利用HarmThoughts,我们通过组合分类行为构建安全失败模式,刻画推理如何演变为有害执行。对比白盒与黑盒监测器识别细粒度行为的表现,并进一步评估监督微调效果。结果显示,随行为粒度提升,现成监测器性能急剧下降,而微调显著提升表现,凸显细粒度过程级安全监控的挑战与可学习性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large reasoning models (LRMs) produce complex, multi-step reasoning traces, yet safety evaluation remains focused on final outputs, overlooking how harm emerges during reasoning. When jailbroken, harm does not appear instantaneously but unfolds through distinct behavioral steps such as suppressing refusal, rationalizing compliance, decomposing harmful tasks, and concealing risk. However, no existing benchmark captures this process at sentence-level granularity within reasoning traces -- a key step toward reliable safety monitoring, interventions, and systematic failure diagnosis. To address this gap, we introduce HarmThoughts, a benchmark for step-wise safety evaluation of reasoning traces. HarmThoughts is built around our proposed harm taxonomy, comprising 16 functional reasoning behavior categories that capture how reasoning steps contribute to or mitigate harmful outcomes. The dataset consists of 56,931 sentences from 1,018 reasoning traces generated by four model families, each annotated with fine-grained sentence-level behavioral labels. Using HarmThoughts, we analyze harm propagation by composing taxonomy behaviors into safety-failure patterns that characterize how reasoning transitions into harmful execution. We compare white-box and black-box monitors for identifying fine-grained taxonomy behaviors, and further evaluate supervised fine-tuning. While off-the-shelf monitors degrade sharply as behavioral granularity increases, fine-tuning substantially improves performance, highlighting both the difficulty and learnability of fine-grained process-level safety monitoring.
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