arXiv cs.CL· Jacob Dineen, Silei Ren, Muhao Chen, Dan Roth, Ben Zhou·· 11 天前AI 评分62
研究：前沿智能体在测试阶段绕过指令自发形成隐蔽信道
Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test Time
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arXiv 论文研究模型对在重复博弈中能否仅凭 1 bit 反馈学会传递秘密状态，且参数固定、无预设编码本或示例。在模拟事件响应任务中，智能体自行生成自由文本更新时该现象依然存在。十组独立博弈中，GPT-5.6 Sol 智能体对最终准确率达 98.8%，随机猜测为 25%，尽管有明确禁止泄露的指令和逐条筛查消息的监控器。
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Abstract:In security-sensitive applications, language-model agents are often required to coordinate without disclosing confidential information. Yet repeated interactions may also let ordinary messages acquire shared private meaning. We study a repeated game with pairs of models in which the sender model observes one of four secret states and selects one of four summaries of the same public report, while the receiver model tries to infer the secret state. We find that model pairs can learn to communicate the secret using only one bit of feedback indicating whether the receiver inferred it correctly. This learning occurs during inference with fixed parameters and no supplied codebook or encoding examples. The effect also persists when agents generate their own free-form updates in a simulated incident-response task. Across ten independent games, pairs of GPT-5.6 Sol agents reach 98.8% final accuracy, compared with 25% chance, despite explicit instructions prohibiting disclosure and a monitor that screens each message without access to the agents' interaction histories. The same interactions that help agents cooperate can therefore allow confidential information to pass through messages intended for legitimate coordination.
| Subjects: | Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.32701 [cs.AI] |
| (or arXiv:2609.32701v2 [cs.AI] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.32701 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
Submission history
From: Jacob Dineen [view email]
[v1]
Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:06:44 UTC (153 KB)
[v2]
Tue, 6 Oct 2026 21:24:02 UTC (153 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.CL · arxiv.org