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Publicly released third-party sleeper-agent models lose their backdoors under HHH supervised fine-tuning with minimal capability degradation.

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For these MOs, we were able to train the backdoor out using HHH SFT with minimal capability degradation; we won’t discuss these MOs anymore.

Sleeper Agent Backdoor Results Are Messyextraction 0.75

Sleeper agents trained by Sara Price, Cadenza Labs, and Abhay Sheshadri (LoRA).

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