arXiv:2608.12851cs.AI2026-08

自进化大模型会继承错误技能,导致安全风险持续传播。

Practice Makes Unsafe: Skill Misevolution in Self-Improving LLM Agents

论文配图:Practice Makes Unsafe: Skill Misevolution in Self-Improving LLM Agents
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  • 通过追踪技能演化全生命周期,识别危险行为的传播路径。
  • 21个演化配置均生成不安全内容,3个恶意任务使风险率升至35.3%。
  • 提出SafeEvolve修复机制,有效降低风险且不影响正常功能。

自进化大模型代理将成功轨迹转化为跨任务持久状态,但一次不安全的成功可能在输入消失后仍被重复利用。技能演化通过提炼可执行、可迁移、可检查的程序,使此类失败可测量。由于演化优化目标是任务结果而非过程安全,受损经验会导致技能误演化。现有基准仅评估当前行为或静态产物,无法追溯风险在创作、检索与执行阶段的传播。为此,我们提出SkillMisevo-Gym——一个感知生命周期的测试框架,支持跨代理架构的技能版本管理;以及SkillMisevo-Bench,一个冻结设计的恶意暴露基准,包含概念对齐的良性任务与九项生命周期指标。我们还引入SafeEvolve封装器,修复不安全内容并管控后续复用。在25种代理方法配置下,每种覆盖525个任务、25个回合,所有21个演化配置均生成不安全产物,仅15个导致新会话伤害。在暴露测试中,3个恶意任务使携带风险率从16.0%升至35.3%。在代表性演化方法中,SafeEvolve分别将不安全检索和新会话伤害降低26.7和17.3个百分点,而良性效用仅下降0.4点。表明持久适应的安全性必须控制更新内容与未来执行者的复用范围。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Self-improving LLM agents convert successful trajectories into persistent cross-task state. An unsafe success can thereby become reusable policy after its triggering input disappears. Skill evolution makes this failure measurable by distilling operational trajectories into executable, transferable, and inspectable procedures. Because evolution optimizes task outcomes rather than procedure safety, compromised experience can cause skill misevolution. Existing benchmarks measure current behavior or static artifacts but cannot attribute risk across authoring, retrieval, and later execution. To expose this lifecycle, we introduce SkillMisevo-Gym, a lifecycle-aware harness that versions skill state across agent frameworks, and SkillMisevo-Bench, a frozen design from malicious exposure to carryover tasks, with concept-aligned benign tasks and nine lifecycle metrics. We also introduce SafeEvolve, a wrapper that repairs unsafe content and governs subsequent reuse. Across 25 agent-method configurations, each covering 525 tasks in 25 episodes, all 21 evolved configurations author unsafe artifacts, while only fifteen lead to fresh-session harm. In the exposure sweep, three malicious tasks raise carryover ASR from 16.0% to 35.3%. Across representative skill evolution methods, SafeEvolve reduces unsafe retrieval and fresh-session harm by 26.7 and 17.3 percentage points, respectively, while mean benign utility changes by only 0.4 points. Together, persistent-adaptation safety must govern what updates write and what future executors reuse. Code is available at https://github.com/henrymao2004/misevolve.

大模型安全自进化风险传播技能演化

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