发现并操控大模型中一种隐性反向人格,可解释微调后出现的意外偏差。
Transplanting, inverting, and preventing a misalignment persona: method-conditional emergent misalignment in Qwen2.5
- 通过移植和删除特定潜藏人格方向,验证其对模型行为的影响
- 低秩微调易诱发偏差,全量微调反而抑制该方向(3.4% vs 0.3%)
- 可针对性预防偏差,提升安全性且不损害代码生成质量
在Qwen2.5模型中,微调时引入狭义有害数据会引发涌现式错位(EM),其根源是潜藏的人格方向。将该方向移植至仅共享预训练的模型中,导致广泛错位(2.83 ± 0.26%,高于随机方向基线∼1.1%)。移除自身方向可使显性诱因的广播率从21%降至10%。该移植方法兼具测量功能,能因果检验源模型内存在但无法表达的方向。是否招募该人格取决于方法与容量:在Qwen2.5-32B上,低秩LoRA微调代码数据会触发(3.4%错位),而全量SFT则不会(0.3%),且反向偏离人格轴(漂移-人格余弦从+0.17降至-0.10)。该人格的因果作用具有条件性:在医疗错误微调中,训练期引导远离该方向使广播率从∼24%升至∼50%,对照组保持基线水平,三组种子重复验证。因招募是降低损失的捷径,高容量下冗余,故可通过筛选预防。基于人格方向的损失相关性完美排序四类诱因的广播效果;接种可选择性消除招募(4.75% → 0.0%),同时维持代码连贯性(65% → 87%);沿单一行为衍生轴进行正交微调可特异性抑制该现象。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Emergent misalignment (EM) --- the broad misbehaviour a language model acquires after fine-tuning on narrow harmful data --- is mediated in Qwen2.5 models by a latent persona direction, and that direction is causal in open weights. Transplanting it into a model that shares only pretraining with its source induces broad EM (2.83 $\pm$ 0.26\% misaligned against a random-direction floor of $\sim$1.1\%), and ablating a model's own direction roughly halves an overt inducer's broadcast (21\% to 10\%). The transplant doubles as a measurement method, causally assaying directions that a source model represents but cannot itself express. Whether a fine-tune recruits this persona depends on method and capacity, and since low-rank PEFT is the cheaper regime at scale, the recruiting method is also the economical one. On Qwen2.5-32B, LoRA at low ranks on insecure code recruits it (3.4\% misaligned) while full SFT on identical data does not (0.3\%) and moves against the persona axis (drift--persona cosine $+0.17$ at rank 1 to $-0.10$), the far-inducer, high-capacity exception consistent with a representational-distance $\times$ capacity account. The persona's causal role is itself conditional. Steering a bad-medical SFT run away from the direction during training raises the broadcast from ${\sim}24\%$ to ${\sim}50\%$ while matched random controls stay at or below baseline, replicated across three training seeds, so removing the direction is no blanket recipe. Because recruitment is a loss-reducing shortcut that capacity renders redundant, it can be screened for and prevented in the tested instances. Persona loss-relevance at the SFT solution orders four inducers' broadcasts rank-perfectly within Qwen2.5, inoculation removes recruitment selectively (4.75\% to 0.0\%, code coherence 65\% to 87\%), and fine-tuning orthogonal to the single behaviour-derived axis reduces it persona-specifically.
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