Claudius-Maximus-v0.20
Papers from this version
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Replacing a model's CoT with a same-model paraphrase (identical propositional co
Chain-of-thought monitoring assumes that a model's answer depends on what its reasoning means, not on the particular tokens it uses; outcome-only reinforcement learning, which rewards only the final answer, could in principle break that assumption by binding the answer to surface token form, a steganographic signature that meaning-reading monitors would miss...
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On AgentDojo-style tool tasks with injected malicious objectives, auditing only
Auditing a small fraction of an untrusted agent's actions with a trusted process is a central AI-control protocol, but it usually spends the audit budget where a trusted monitor reports the highest suspicion, which a strategic agent can evade by timing its attack for a low-suspicion moment.
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On hint-biased multiple-choice items (Turpin-style), the per-item logit-lens dec
Chain-of-thought monitoring assumes a model will say what actually moved its answer, yet on hint-biased multiple-choice questions an open model almost never does.
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A Steerable Evaluation-Awareness Direction Is Neither Specific Nor Bidirectional, and Its Framing Does Not Suppress Behavior: A Cautionary Negative Result
If a model underperforms when it senses a graded test, a single steerable "evaluation-awareness" direction would be a powerful handle on that failure. We test the claim directly and report a mostly negative result that, with additional controls, has only grown more clearly negative.