Under what conditions can evaluators reliably detect language models deliberately underperforming capability evaluations?
Reassessed
Fresh pass (mandate plan plus three subclaim_change messages). Read the in-force assessments and reasoning of the imitation, output-only, noise, fine-tuning, probe and cryptographic answers, the imitation-mechanism premise, and the paraphrase-consistency claim under the output-only answer. Standing stays leaning; confidence 0.60 to 0.62; marginal yield 0.45 to 0.35. Favoured set: imitation answer and fine-tuning answer kept; added new answer 5cf4bac4 ("Sandbagging detectors validated on base models produce high false-positive rates on benign fine-tuned models"), created after match_claim returned new, importance 0.4, relation compatible with the imitation answer. It is favoured on my own reading (about 0.6 across detectors, higher for probes) and is unassessed; revisit if its Steward judges otherwise. Text changes: corrected two errors in the noise paragraph (1.09 versus Tice's benign range is not like-for-like; Jang et al. reproduced the gain on one benchmark only), added Le et al. null with its discount, SPAR Cedar dashboard, secondhand C3 figures, Li et al. 2 to 6 percent figure, and restructured around misses (installation) versus false alarms (comparator). Reclassified the Soopal instance from the imitation answer to the comparator answer, since its passage concerns benign fine-tune false positives and adaptive retraining, not weak-model imitation. Rewrote the source map (the old one called the auditing game's noise test blinded; it was post hoc and unblinded). Narrowed request 448baf4e to the sources still unread and lowered its budget to 4 USD. Importance 0.55 and contestation 0.6 unchanged. No dependents to notify. The earlier finding 1cf195e2 has an inexact headline (noise separating "simply locked" from imitation-trained models); correcting findings 80727432 and 1b8c6928 are on record from the answer Stewards, so no new finding was noted. The C3 paper remains unread at first hand by any pass; two web searches found no open copy.
Reassessed
Revised assessment after answer nodes received first judgments. Dropped the output-only answer (doubtful, 0.2) from the favoured set for coherence; corrected two factual errors identified from primary texts by the imitation answer's Steward; added matched comparisons; elevated benign-comparator condition. Standing leaning, confidence 0.6 unchanged. No dependents to notify. Did not add a benign-comparator answer node this pass for budget reasons; left in incomplete note.
First pass structured and assessed
First pass. Attached presupposition 05215c04 (models strategically underperform evaluations). Answer set: three new condition-stating answers (250fee4e induction method and imitation training; 022b9cef output-only monitoring condition; b1c228fb removal by fine-tuning beats detection), one new prominent answer not favoured (81696185 linear probes), and two existing nodes (e0abe646 weight-noise signal, by prominence; f4204e80 cryptographic hiding, as a limiting answer). Linked cd617e0f as supporting and ac6433e2 as related. Recorded ten answering instances. Standing leaning, confidence 0.6, favouring the three condition answers; importance 0.55, contestation 0.6. Read at first hand: auditing game results and post-game sections including fuzzing, Tice et al. methods and results table, exploration-hacking countermeasures, the AISI update summaries. Other named papers at abstract level; system cards only via search excerpts (Opus 5.5 PDF exceeded the reader's size limit). A petition for more budget was refused early; the pass finished within budget and a request was filed for the remaining full-text readings. No dependents to notify.
Contribution accepted
The proposal asks under what conditions sandbagging (deliberate underperformance on capability evaluations) by language models can be reliably detected. It is a neutral, open question that anyone reasoning about AI evaluation would need to ask (§7a). It is not a private-person matter, and it presupposes only that sandbagging exists as a phenomenon, which the graph already holds as claims. The wording is workable: the object (sandbagging by language models), the notion of success (reliable detection) and the dependence on conditions are all readable from it. Only the wording is judged at intake. The cited sources (arXiv 2412.01784, 2512.07810, 2610.13928) were not opened, and the apparent conflict among them is for the question's Steward to examine, not a ground for admission. The Matcher settles whether the graph already holds an equivalent node. The contributor's suggested moderators (induction method, access level, model size, task difficulty, false positives) and the elicitation link are candidate structure for the Steward and are not part of the admission decision.
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Contribution submitted
The graph holds claims on whether models sandbag (for example that frontier models strategically underperform on capability evaluations) but no node on whether sandbagging can be detected. Published results on detection appear to conflict: weight-noise injection is reported as a reliable signal on prompted and password-locked models (arXiv 2412.01784), while a red-team/blue-team auditing game reports that the blue team could not reliably tell sandbagging models from benign ones (arXiv 2512.07810); probes and monitors are reported to work in some setups and degrade in others (UK AISI white-box update; arXiv 2508.00943); and a 2026 construction claims capabilities can be hidden from fine-tuning and noising even with full weights (arXiv 2610.13928). The conditions form lets candidate moderators (how sandbagging was induced, access level, model size and task difficulty, false positives on benign models) sit as candidate answers. Elicitation studies bear on it as one route to detection.