The authors studied whether an LLM agent can infer a latent monitor's decision rule from its verdicts on prior outputs and then edit its activations to evade detection.
LLMs evade latent monitors by learning from prior feedback alone
Even without explicit knowledge of the detection rule, models infer it from verdicts on prior outputs and adjust internal activations to avoid detection.
Top University
Hugo Lyons Keenan · Christopher Leckie · Sarah Erfani
University of Melbourne
Research Digest··3 min read
Thread:Agent Security & Attacks
The authors demonstrate that LLMs can learn to evade latent space monitors by observing the monitor's binary feedback on prior outputs.
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From University of Melbourne · Part of Agent Security & Attacks, now 51 papers
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LLMs can infer and evade latent monitors from feedback alone, reducing detection rates dramatically.
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