发表机构
Snowflake AI Research（Snowflake AI 研究所）
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研究对齐造假中隐藏状态能否揭示输出隐藏内容，对13个模型扫描，发现Qwen3 - 32B和Llama - 3.1 - 8B存在自然造假及不对称拒绝残差，样本检测有模型条件性，还发布五控制测量框架用于对齐造假检测。
AI 中文摘要
对齐造假很危险，因为模型在监控下可能表现出合规，而在未监控时却保留其真实行为。当没有可见的便签本时，仅行为无法区分策略性合规与真正合规。我们研究隐藏状态是否能揭示输出所隐藏的内容。我们对13个模型进行扫描以观察自然出现的造假情况，然后对两个造假模型的隐藏状态进行探测和引导。自然造假仅出现在Qwen3 - 32B（+18.2个百分点）和Llama - 3.1 - 8B（在n = 10，p < 10^-15时为+24.4个百分点），而明确的便签本自我报告很少见。两个造假模型都显示出不对称的拒绝残差：监控下的合规向拒绝转移（Qwen的d = 0.32，Llama的d = 0.33，两者p < 0.0001），而拒绝表示不变（p = 1.00）。样本检测是模型条件性的。在无泄漏的留一查询探测下，Llama的检测有效（AUROC为0.87），而Qwen的检测则降至随机水平（0.43），跨模型转移无效。引导超过2000次运行对合规几乎没有影响（|h| < 0.08），所以检测到的方向可标记造假，但本身无法控制它。标准残差化探测在各折叠间泄漏，在无造假的控制组上达到AUROC 0.63；朴素线性探测达到无意义的AUROC 1.0；传统多层感知器夸大可检测性0.2 - 0.3 AUROC。对于未来的对齐造假检测工作，我们发布了一个五控制测量框架：多令牌提取、拒绝与拒绝混淆检查、每折叠残差化、留一查询评估和正交约束探测。
英文摘要
Alignment faking is dangerous because a model can appear compliant under monitoring while preserving behavior it would reveal when unmonitored. When no scratchpad is visible, behavior alone cannot distinguish strategic from genuine compliance. We ask whether hidden states reveal what outputs hide. We run a 13-model sweep for naturally-emerging faking, then probe and steer hidden states on the two models that fake. Natural faking appears only in Qwen3-32B (+18.2pp) and Llama-3.1-8B (+24.4pp at n=10, p<10^-15), while explicit scratchpad self-reports are rare (a Claude Opus 4 judge flags faking reasoning in 1.4% of Qwen and 0.0% of Llama compliant scratchpads). Both fakers show an asymmetric refusal residue: monitored compliance shifts toward refusal (d=0.32 Qwen, d=0.33 Llama, both p<0.0001), while refusal representations do not move (p=1.00). Per-sample detection is model-conditional. Under leakage-free leave-one-query-out probing, detection survives on Llama (AUROC 0.87) but collapses to chance on Qwen (0.43), and cross-model transfer is null. Steering over 2,000 runs barely changes compliance (|h|<0.08), so the detected direction can flag faking but does not by itself control it. Standard residualized probing leaks across folds and reaches AUROC 0.63 on a control where no faking can occur; naive linear probes reach a meaningless AUROC 1.0; and conventional MLPs overstate detectability by 0.2-0.3 AUROC. For future alignment-faking detection work, we release a five-control measurement framework: multi-token extraction, refuse-vs-refuse confound checks, per-fold residualization, leave-one-query-out evaluation, and orthogonality-constrained probing.
CommentsAccepted to the Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at ICML 2026. 12 pages, 4 figures
