Comment by andy99
3 hours ago
So, there is no subliminal learning in this situation, under what conditions would we expect it. I find a transfer attack to be a bit far fetched but it’s definitely interesting.
If we trained from random initialisations on DeepSeek output (that didn’t explicitly contain the political questions) we would expect transfer? And if we fine tuned a model pretrained elsewhere on Deepseek output?
What is the line?
It's most likely to occur when distilling a Chinese model from a Chinese base. We plan to do compliance geometry analysis in the future to see what is structurally changing in the model when distillation causes it to start refusing or whitewashing.