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Claims about adding or varying random noise directly in neural-network parameters (weights), including how such perturbations affect model behavior, accuracy, robustness, or evaluation performance. Excludes noise applied only to inputs or activations.

Weight-noise fuzzing can reveal underelicited capabilities but cannot reliably distinguish benign underelicitation from sandbagging.
SupportedThe evidence favors the claim, but the examination is incomplete or the evidence is indirect.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →AI SandbaggingAI Capability EvaluationLatent Knowledge in Language Modelsimportance · minorImportance 0.40, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Increasing Gaussian weight noise improves benchmark performance in sandbagging LLMs, unlike the degradation in non-sandbagging models.
InconclusiveThe evidence and argument have been examined and do not come down on either side.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Large language modelsAI Capability EvaluationAI Schemingimportance · minorImportance 0.42, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Adding noise to language-model weights can reveal capabilities suppressed by sandbagging.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · verifiableA factual claim that could be checked directly against observation or primary records.constitution →Large language modelsLatent Knowledge in Language ModelsAlignment Fakingimportance · notableImportance 0.50, from 0 to 1 · notable: a contested point in a live debate (also the default before judging). Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
In password-locked fine-tuned language models, Gaussian weight noise raises benchmark scores more without the password than with it.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Large language modelsModel Backdoor Attacksimportance · minorImportance 0.35, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
For the same language model, Gaussian weight noise improves benchmark scores more under an underperformance prompt than a normal prompt.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Large language modelsLLM Prompt SensitivityAI Capability Evaluationimportance · minorImportance 0.25, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Weight-noise injection should be included among LLM sandbagging defenses when high-performance examples are unavailable.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →normativeA claim about what should be done or how things ought to be, settled by argument rather than evidence alone.constitution →AI SandbaggingLarge language modelsimportance · minorImportance 0.40, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Probability, across the studied models and datasets, that one noise-injection trial on a sandbagging model yields an improvement ratio above the maximum observed for standard models
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →QuantityA quantity: a value the graph estimates rather than a proposition it affirms or denies. Its estimate stands where a claim's status would.constitution →AI SandbaggingMachine Learningimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Weight-noise injection elicits Mistral Large 120B’s full GSM8K performance under no-goal sandbagging.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · verifiableA factual claim that could be checked directly against observation or primary records.constitution →Large language modelsAI Capability EvaluationLatent Knowledge in Language Modelsimportance · notableImportance 0.50, from 0 to 1 · notable: a contested point in a live debate (also the default before judging). Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
In tested fine-tuned LLM model organisms, simple exploration hacking is detectable by monitors and weight noising.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · verifiableA factual claim that could be checked directly against observation or primary records.constitution →AI Reward HackingLarge language modelsAI Controlimportance · notableImportance 0.55, from 0 to 1 · notable: a contested point in a live debate (also the default before judging). Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Injecting noise into a model exhibiting its true capabilities almost never substantially improves performance.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Machine LearningAI Capability Evaluationimportance · notableImportance 0.45, from 0 to 1 · notable: a contested point in a live debate (also the default before judging). Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

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