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Subliminal learning transfers capabilities and backdoors between models

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Owain Evans's team reports that models can transfer more complex traits than owl preferences through training data, including novel skills, agentic hacking, and backdoors. In the new paper, a backdoor transfers even though neither the trigger nor the backdoor behavior appears in the training data.

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Beyond Owls:
Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors

Owain Evans@OwainEvans_UK
New paper. Previous: Models transfer a love of owls through sequences of numbers (Subliminal Learning). New: We show models can transfer more complex traits: novel skills, agentic hacking, backdoors. Here, a backdoor transfers with neither trigger nor behavior in the data!
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