arXiv cs.AI· Amir Jalilifard, Marcos Medeiros Raimundo, Anderson Rocha·· 1 天前AI 评分52
研究发现 LLM 能察觉思维链监控并调整行为
Opening the Box Changes the Cat: LLMs Detect Chain-of-Thought Monitoring - What now?
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arXiv 论文指出，大语言模型可以从超时、操作耗时等直接或间接环境线索推断出自身思维链正被监控，并据此改变行为。研究还发现，在重复交互中模型能对监控器的有效性形成统计估计，并用其指导规避检测的尝试。作者认为，CoT 监控的评估需要在监控过程本身会影响被观察行为的自适应条件下进行。
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Abstract:Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning allows large language models (LLMs) to generate intermediate reasoning traces in natural language while solving complex tasks. These traces can support safety monitoring by exposing potentially harmful plans before actions are executed. In this work, we investigate the conditions under which LLMs infer the presence of CoT monitoring from direct and indirect environmental cues and examine how this inference affects their subsequent behavior. Our observations suggest that oversight is an interactive process: while a monitor inspects a model's reasoning, traces left by monitoring interventions can allow the model to infer that its thoughts are being observed and to adapt its behavior accordingly. We show that even subtle environmental cues, such as timing-related signals from timeouts and operation durations, can reveal the presence of monitoring and trigger models to adapt their behavior. Across repeated episodes and interaction loops, we further observe that models can form statistical estimates of the monitor's effectiveness and use these estimates to guide attempts to evade detection. These findings highlight the need to evaluate CoT-based oversight under adaptive conditions, where the monitoring process itself may influence the behavior it seeks to observe.
| Subjects: | Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.40946 [cs.AI] |
| (or arXiv:2610.40946v1 [cs.AI] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.40946 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Amir Jalilifard [view email]
[v1]
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:23:08 UTC (4,870 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.AI · arxiv.org