ByteDance's Seed team found that the accuracy of the DeepSeek-V4 series in long-context retrieval fluctuates periodically with the position of the target information in the input, and attributed the cause to its chunked KV Cache compression. In a needle-in-a-haystack test with 128K tokens and about 16,000 key-value pairs, the maximum accuracy gap between different positions for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Base was 40.2 percentage points, and for DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base it was 34.8 percentage points; the gap narrowed after post-training.
Northeastern University 研究者提出,仅以植入目标行为为单一目标训练模型生物不足以支撑可解释性结论,应同时验证行为植入、通用能力保留和输出自然性三类指标。他们用该框架重新评估 Pando 与 Model Organism Lottery 两个公开套件,发现固定行为率下聊天质量与 CoT 自然性随训练配方大幅下降,且验证指标能预测可解释性方法恢复植入行为的效果。Bau 与 Wallace 组为论文《How to Train Your Model Organism》开源了代码与模型生物,覆盖训练、验证、临床模型生物、审计和分析五部分;训练侧提供 SFT、DPO 与多目标模型合并来植入行为,验证侧给出衡量模型偏离基座模型程度的指标,材料包含 163 个基于 Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct 的临床模型生物,分别编码年龄、性别、种族三类临床偏见,以及配套数据管线。
METR 的 Ryan Greenblatt 对 AI 架构转向以不透明激活而非思维链进行推理(即"neuralese"架构)表示担忧,认为 Astra 是这一方向上令人不安的一步。他指出公开信息不足以就 Astra 架构与训练方法改动在可监控性与性能之间的权衡展开充分讨论,呼吁 AI 公司发布相关证据并公开其政策,Redwood AI 也提出了追踪无 CoT 推理能力与可监控性政策的提案。他强调公司应谨慎对待可能消除或大幅削弱对思维链依赖的架构。
Goodfire Research 发布系列文章,主张神经网络内部表征常呈弯曲几何结构,而非线性方向,并提出以神经几何为前沿来理解、改进和控制模型。文章用 mountain car 图像-动作模型演示:图像编码器把小车位置表示为一条弦状流形,沿该流形干预隐藏激活可让小车平滑上下坡,而线性路径会穿过激活空间中的空洞,导致输出混乱甚至小车瞬移。作者指出,语言模型中月份、星期呈环状,历史年份与文本字符呈平滑曲线,图像模型的空间布局与颜色也呈结构化曲面。文章还批评稀疏自编码器(SAE)会把流形打碎成许多看似无关的局部特征,例如在押韵词流形上只能标出局部拼写属性,掩盖了音韵结尾这一整体语义结构。
A research team from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Texas at Austin, and others published a study on arXiv analyzing how language evolves among AI agents. The experiment simulated a collaborative medical task where one AI played a doctor and another played an emergency responder, able to treat an alien lifeform named Beyru only by exchanging information; the researchers limited the total number of exchangeable characters to 2000 and 150, respectively. With ample characters, the agents continued using English; under strict limits, they began generating shorter expressions such as @L12gA, T1 lf gnt 12s, which are difficult for humans to understand but decodable by each other. The researchers also proposed the GlossoGen platform to study language evolution among multiple LLM agents in complex scenarios and built the SaveVeyru scenario, which requires agents with incomplete information to communicate under pressure. The experiments found that language evolution does occur among LLM agents, and the evolved languages exhibit compositionality and morphological productivity, deviating from the LLMs' English prior and being incomprehensible to humans. The study identified conditions that drive evolution, including efficiency pressure, the strength of the models supporting the agents, and a postmortem phase where agents agree on language conventions. Researchers from AE Studio, UT Austin, Schmidt Sciences, and the University of Edinburgh released the GlossoGen platform and observed in the collaborative emergency scenario SaveVeyru that pretrained LLM agents abandon English and switch to their own compressed language for communication. Agents only switch languages when they have both a tight communication budget and a postmortem review channel; without either condition, perplexity remains at English levels. Even with both in place, most runs still end in failure. These languages have reusable morphemes and fixed word order, and agents can understand and generate combinations they have not previously sent to each other.