2025
Noise Injection Reveals Hidden Capabilities of Sandbagging Language Models
Cameron Tice, Philipp Alexander Kreer, Nathan Helm-Burger, Prithviraj Singh Shahani, Fedor Ryzhenkov, Fabien Roger +4
NeurIPS 2025poster
Capability evaluations play a crucial role in assessing and regulating frontier AI systems. The effectiveness of these evaluations faces a significant challenge: strategic underperformance, or ``sandbagging'', where models deliberately underperform during evaluation. Sandbagging can manifest either…