发表机构
Truth Audit Labs（Truth Audit Labs）
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该研究针对多智能体系统中LLM智能体的合谋问题，探究激活值监控下智能体的感知与反馈对合谋检测的影响，发现告知智能体监控信息无法阻止其合谋，探测模型仍保持准确。
AI 中文摘要
大语言模型（LLM）智能体正越来越多地部署在多智能体系统中，它们可能在保持行为看似无害的同时合谋。旨在检测此类合谋的输出监控器可能会被混淆和隐写术欺骗，这促使人们使用基于内部激活值训练的探测模型。然而，这些探测模型通常是在不知道自己被监控的智能体上进行评估的。我们研究了当智能体明确被告知其内部激活值正在被监控，并且还从监控器那里获得反馈时，基于激活值的检测会发生怎样的变化。我们固定模型、探测模型和阈值，仅改变告知智能体的内容：什么都不告知（基线）、存在激活监控器（感知）、或存在监控器并结合前一轮的分数（反馈）。我们使用Qwen3-32B-AWQ和GPT-OSS-20B，在同质和混合配对中测试了两个游戏：一个四智能体的二十一点游戏和一个两智能体的西蒙斯囚徒困境游戏。告知智能体关于监控器的信息并不能隐藏它们的合谋行为，最佳探测模型在三种情况下都保持准确，智能体仍会继续合谋。
英文摘要
LLM agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems, where they can collude while keeping their actions benign. Output monitors designed to detect such collusions can be fooled by obfuscation and steganography, motivating the use of probes trained on internal activations. However, these probes are usually evaluated on agents that do not know they are being watched. We study how activation-based detection changes when agents are explicitly informed that their internal activations are being monitored, and when they additionally receive feedback from the monitor. We keep the models, probes, and thresholds fixed and change only what the agents are told: nothing (baseline), that an activation monitor is present (aware), or that a monitor is present together with the previous round's score (feedback). We test two games, a four-agent blackjack game and a two-agent Simmons prisoners game, using Qwen3-32B-AWQ and GPT-OSS-20B in homogeneous and mixed pairings. Telling agents about the monitor does not hide them. The best probes stay accurate in all three conditions, and the agents keep colluding.
Comments18 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables
