AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities
Proposes digital lock compilation, encrypting executable networks into host weights to hide arbitrary capabilities
- arXiv
- 2610.13928
- Published
- Layer
- Model layer
- Setting
- Models and APIs
- Evaluated models
- Gemma 3 270M
- AttacksPoisoning and backdoors
- TechniqueDormant triggers
AbstractThe authors use a digital lock to hide an executable capability and state that elicitation on the chemistry and parity tasks did not recover the capability.
The authors construct a class of backdoors that encrypt an executable network into the weights, used to discuss the limits of white-box elicitation audits under supply chain attacks.