arXiv cs.CL· Saswat Das, Parvati Viswanathan, Daniel Donnelly, Chang Huang, Sahar Abdelnabi, Ferdinando Fioretto·· 11 小时前AI 评分42
SEABench：评测自进化智能体的内生性失准
SEABench: Benchmarking Endogenous Misalignment In Self-Evolving Agents
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研究者提出 SEABench，一个包含 48 条纵向任务序列的基准，用于研究自进化 LLM 智能体因修改控制器指令、记忆管理协议和可复用工具技能而产生的内生性失准。评测显示，自进化确实提升了任务完成率，但常以安全失败为代价，而配对的不进化基线智能体并未出现这类失败；不同进化面与危害类型下的安全行为存在定性差异，且这种差异反映在思维链推理中，可作为低误报率的安全监控策略。
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Abstract:Self-evolving LLM agents have gained prominence for their ability to improve after deployment by modifying their harness, including their controller instructions, memory management protocols, and reusable tools and skills, in response to user and environment feedback. However, locally useful updates may persist into later tasks where they produce unsafe behavior, even without direct adversarial influence. To study this risk, we introduce SEABench, a benchmark for studying endogenous misalignment arising from agent self-evolution, with 48 longitudinal task sequences that span multiple evolution surfaces, task domains, and harm types in a rich personal-assistant environment. To account for the stochasticity inherent in agentic operations, we provide an adaptive trajectory discovery pipeline that probes for failures while preserving original task intent and supports causal attribution through paired non-evolving agents and attribution scores. Our evaluation across multiple recent LLMs, evolution surfaces, and harm types reveals that self-evolution indeed increases task completion rates but often at the cost of safety failures that are absent for paired non-evolving baseline agents. We also show that qualitatively different safety behaviors emerge across evolution surfaces and harm types. Further, we show that this divergence in safety behavior is reflected in agents' chain-of-thought reasoning, which yields an effective monitoring strategy that can mitigate unsafe behavior with a low false positive rate.
| Subjects: | Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.35596 [cs.CR] |
| (or arXiv:2609.35596v3 [cs.CR] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.35596 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
Submission history
From: Saswat Das [view email]
[v1]
Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:46:25 UTC (1,531 KB)
[v2]
Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:10:34 UTC (1,531 KB)
[v3]
Wed, 4 Nov 2026 21:54:41 UTC (1,528 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.CL · arxiv.org