arXiv:2605.23055cs.LGcs.AI2026-05

发现大模型会识别评估任务并调整行为,影响测试结果可信度。

Decomposing and Measuring Evaluation Awareness

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  • 从社会心理学出发,拆解评估意识为环境与模型两部分。
  • 9个模型在4个基准上识别率取决于模型与任务的特定组合。
  • 提出可控制因子的EvalAwareBench,用于测量和缓解评估意识。

前沿语言模型有时能识别自身正被评估,并据此调整行为,削弱基准测试结果的有效性。然而当前研究缺乏统一基础,混淆了评估特性与模型特性,以及检测与行为响应。本文基于社会心理学,将评估意识分解为环境因素(任务可识别性)和模型因素(识别后是否行动)。通过八类触发因子(如占位符实体、评分式输出格式)操作环境,结合思维链监控分析识别与行为。在九个前沿模型与四个基准上,识别率依赖于模型与基准的特定组合而非单独因素。识别常不引发行为改变,即使发生,方向也取决于感知到的评估类型。模型对安全评估更敏感,使安全基准有效性面临更高风险。为此,我们提出EvalAwareBench——一个包含100对安全-能力任务的可控基准,八个触发因子可独立开关,在保持请求不变的前提下调节评估信号。实验表明,单一因子不普遍影响所有模型,但叠加因子可逐步提升所有模型的评估意识。本框架与基准为测量、归因与缓解评估意识提供工具,提示在识别下保持行为一致或为未来方向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Frontier language models sometimes recognize that they are being evaluated and adjust their behavior, undermining validity of benchmark results. Yet the field studies it without a shared foundation, conflating properties of the evaluation with properties of the model, and detection with behavioral response. We ground evaluation awareness in social psychology, decomposing it into an environment component (how recognizable the task is) and a model component that separates recognition from propensity to act on it. We operationalize the environment component through eight categorized trigger factors, such as placeholder entities and grading-style output formats, and study recognition and behavior through chain-of-thought monitoring. Across nine frontier models and four benchmarks, recognition rates depend on the specific pairing of model and benchmark rather than on either in isolation. Recognition rarely leads to behavioral change, and when it does, the direction depends on the type of evaluation perceived. Models are also more sensitive to safety than capability evaluations, placing safety benchmark validity at greater risk. To study which factors each model is sensitive to and how they interact, we propose \textbf{EvalAwareBench}, a factor-controlled benchmark of 100 paired safety-capability tasks where each of the eight factors can be independently toggled, varying evaluative signals while holding the underlying request fixed. Through EvalAwareBench, we find that no single factor uniformly affects all models, but stacking factors progressively raises evaluation awareness across all of them. Our framework and EvalAwareBench provide the tools to measure, attribute, and mitigate evaluation awareness, pointing to behavioral consistency under recognition as a promising path forward.

评估意识大模型评测行为一致性

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