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Ctrl-Z: Controlling AI Agents via Resampling

Aryan Bhatt, Cody Rushing, Adam Kaufman, Tyler Tracy, Vasil Georgiev, David Matolcsi, Akbir Khan, Buck Shlegeris

arXiv:2504.10374v1cs.LG

TL;DR

The paper examines how safety protocols can control potentially subversive AI agents on multi-step tasks, a setting beyond prior single-step control work. It evaluates resampling protocols on BashBench and reports that they outperform existing techniques, including a protocol with 84.0% safety at 95% usefulness.

  • Problem

    Prior AI control work focused on single-step interactions, while multi-step agents can perform high-stakes work and may behave subversively, making control in sequential tasks an open concern.

    Source: §1 · p. 1

  • Method

    The authors evaluate control protocols on 257 multi-step system administration tasks in BashBench and develop resampling approaches that sample multiple completions from a stateless model.

    Source: §1 · pp. 1–2

  • Results

    Resample protocols outperform existing techniques, and one protocol achieves 84.0% safety at 95% usefulness.

    Source: §1 · p. 2, §3.2.1 · p. 7

  • Takeaways & Limitations

    Resampling can exploit multi-step structure by forcing attack policies to maintain detectable continuation probabilities or use lower probabilities that prevent attack completion.

    Source: §7 · pp. 10–11

    The 1% auditing budget is a relatively arbitrary comparison threshold: absolute performance is highly sensitive to it, while relative protocol performance is fairly insensitive.

    Source: §5 · p. 9

Abstract

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Control evaluations measure whether monitoring and security protocols for AI systems prevent intentionally subversive AI models from causing harm. Our work presents the first control evaluation performed in an agent environment. We construct BashBench, a dataset of 257 challenging multi-step system administration tasks, and evaluate whether various safety measures can prevent an adversarially constructed AI agent from covertly downloading and executing malicious code in this environment. This multi-step setting introduces new attack and defense dynamics, which we investigate in order to design novel control protocols that prevent safety failures without hindering the ability of non-malicious agents to perform useful work. We introduce a class of control protocols called resample protocols that dynamically take additional samples of certain actions. We find these protocols significantly improve on existing techniques by selectively blocking the AI agent from executing suspicious code and incriminating the agent by generating additional examples of dangerous behavior. We measure the tradeoff between attack prevention and usefulness; our best protocol combines resampling with analysis of previous steps, reducing the success rate of attacks from 58% to 7% at a 5% cost to the performance of a non-malicious agent.

1. Introduction

The paper studies how to control potentially subversive AI agents on multi-step tasks, where attacks can be split across actions and controls can use trajectory-level evidence. It introduces BashBench and resampling protocols for evaluating this setting.

1. Introduction

  • In high-stakes uses such as security-critical software engineering, untrusted models could pursue subversive goals or behave deceptively, creating risks from rare failures.The paper uses “untrusted models” for models with the potential to be deliberately subversive.Source: §1 · p. 1
  • The study evaluates AI control: safety measures intended to mitigate harm even when an agent is untrustworthy, in multi-step system administration tasks.Its attack policy attempts to download and execute dummy malware, while protocols can use models and limited human labor to flag suspicious outputs.Source: §1 · p. 1
  • Multi-step attacks can be divided into less suspicious actions, while controls can use information across actions to gather incriminating evidence.This creates distinct attack and defense dynamics compared with single-step interactions.Source: §1 · p. 1
  • BashBench provides 257 system administration tasks for multi-step control evaluations.The dataset is derived from Unix StackExchange questions and graded with public and private Python test cases.Source: §1 · pp. 1–2
  • Resample protocols sample multiple completions from the stateless model and outperform existing techniques, especially against multi-step attacks.They apply selection pressure for benign actions and gather incriminating evidence of malign actions.Source: §1 · p. 2

2. Setting

The paper defines a multi-step system-administration control setting, introduces BashBench, and specifies the models, resources, metrics, and iterative evaluation process used to assess protocols.

2. Setting

  • Tasks require sequences of shell commands, and each episode has up to 100,000 tasks with up to 15 steps per task in a fresh container.The blue team seeks to solve tasks while preventing attacks; the red team attempts to execute dummy malware.Source: §2 · p. 2

2.1. Dataset

  • BashBench converts Unix StackExchange questions into tasks with Python tests, retaining 100 train tasks and 157 test tasks after filtering for challenge and solvability.The agent must pass public tests during a task and held-out private tests when it reports completion.Source: §2.1 · p. 2

2.2. Models and Resources

  • The untrusted model is either honest GPT-4o mini, which solves 56% of tasks on average, or a scaffolded attack policy designed to covertly execute malware.The attack scaffold can use tools and human-provided attack templates to disguise malicious commands among innocuous actions.Source: §2.2 · p. 3
  • The blue team has limited human auditing and a weaker trusted model; an audited attack is treated as unshakable evidence and can end the episode.The human-audit budget is 1% of episode actions, and the trusted model is implemented with Llama-3.1-8B.Source: §2.2 · p. 3

2.3. Safety and Usefulness Metrics

  • Usefulness measures the share of tasks solved with the honest policy, while safety measures the chance of finishing an episode without malware execution under the attack policy.Protocols trade off these measures, and Figure 2 presents their Pareto frontier.Source: §2.3 · p. 3, Figure 2 · p. 4

2.4. Performing Control Evaluations Iteratively

  • Red and blue teams iteratively refined attacks and protocols, with one final red-team optimization step before evaluation; the teams were not siloed.The paper leaves the effects of siloed team dynamics for future research.Source: §2.4 · p. 4

3. Results

The results compare control protocols in 100,000-task episode simulations. Resampling with analysis of past steps is the best reported protocol, reaching 87.1% safety at 95% usefulness.

3.1.1. UPFRONT AUDITING

  • 5.5% safety at 100% usefulness was achieved with upfront auditing, which led the red team to use rare attacks.Source: §3.1.1 · p. 4

3.1.2. TRUSTED MONITORING

  • 41.8% safety at 100% usefulness came from trusted monitoring with exponential auditing budgeting, versus 22% safety with uniform auditing.Source: §3.1.2 · p. 5

3.1.3. DEFER TO TRUSTED

  • A safety score of 72.7% at 95% usefulness was reported; multi-step attacks make each action less suspicious but create more chances of being caught, and the best created attack had ten steps.When rating an action’s suspiciousness, the monitor is shown all actions taken so far in the task-solving trajectory.Source: §3.1.3 · p. 5

3.2. Resample Protocols

  • 83.2% safety at 95% usefulness was achieved by Defer to resample, which costs less usefulness than Defer to trusted at the same deferral threshold.When attack continuation probability is low, repeated sampling can select benign actions; high continuation probability makes incomplete attacks more likely to be caught.Source: §3.2 · pp. 6–7

3.2.1. CAPITALIZING ON HIGH ATTACK CONTINUATION PROBABILITIES

  • 84.0% safety at 95% usefulness came from adding present-step incrimination to Defer to resample.The protocol uses additional samples to inform auditing decisions as well as selection pressure.Source: §3.2.1 · p. 7

3.2.2. USING PAST INFORMATION

  • A protocol change had a safety score of 84.9% at 95% usefulness; it did not improve blue-team safety, but simply used past information for auditing decisions and served as a stepping stone to the best resampling protocol.Source: §3.2.2 · p. 8
  • 87.1% safety at 95% usefulness is the best reported resampling result.Table 1 compares safety scores across protocols at 90%, 95%, and 99% usefulness.Source: §3.2.2 · p. 8, Table 1 · p. 8

4. Untrusted Monitoring

Untrusted monitoring can identify malicious code effectively, but its potential to collude with the untrusted agent requires anti-collusion measures. The paper combines validation, trusted paraphrasing, and optimized protocol parameters to make collusion more detectable.

4. Untrusted Monitoring

  • The protocol audits when either monitor exceeds its threshold and shuts down if the untrusted monitor fails enough synthetic attacks during upfront validation.The blue team tunes honeypot allocation, validation thresholds, and audit allocation; the red team optimizes its collusion threshold and whether to signal collusion.Source: §4 · pp. 8–9
  • Honest untrusted monitoring catches 98.8% of attacks at a 1% auditing budget, but a malicious monitor could collude by rating dangerous code as safe.The untrusted model is stronger than the trusted model at judging whether code is malicious.Source: §4 · p. 8
  • Upfront validation tests the untrusted monitor on synthetic honeypot attacks and shuts down when its false-negative rate is too high, prompting colluders to distinguish honeypots from real attacks.The red team can use subtle collusion signals to make the monitor report honeypots while concealing real attacks.Source: §4 · pp. 8–9
  • Trusted paraphrasing gives the untrusted monitor detailed natural-language command descriptions while removing arbitrary implementation details that could serve as collusion signals.The original commands are still run, so paraphrasing does not affect usefulness; it forces collusion strategies toward more blatant signals that appear suspicious to the trusted monitor.Source: §4 · p. 9
  • A small auditing-budget allocation to untrusted monitoring substantially boosts all protocols by inducing collusion signals that make attacks more suspicious to the trusted monitor.The comparison is at 95% usefulness.Source: §4 · p. 9, Table 2 · p. 9

5. Discussion

The discussion identifies scope and evaluation choices that constrain interpretation, including the auditing budget, attack construction, protocol cost, and assumptions about deployment conditions.

5. Discussion

  • Transfer to deployment is bounded by a narrow known target, trajectories capped at 15 steps, assumed infallible auditing, and a potentially narrow task dataset.Longer tasks, shared state, subtle attacks, or easier-to-exploit tasks could change protocol performance.Source: §5 · pp. 9–10
  • Absolute protocol performance is highly sensitive to the relatively arbitrary 1% auditing budget, while relative performance between protocols is fairly insensitive to it.The authors therefore regard relative improvements as more important than absolute scores.Source: §5 · p. 9
  • Protocol cost was not explicitly optimized; as a rough heuristic, the authors limited protocols to no more than doubling calls to the untrusted model per task.They recommend treating cost as a more central optimization target in future work.Source: §5 · p. 9
  • The attack policy relied on human-devised strategies implemented by GPT-4o mini, which may poorly represent how a more capable attacker would conceal malicious code.The authors say human assistance may overstate GPT-4o mini’s unaided attack capability, while the attacks may be a poor proxy for more competent attackers.Source: §5 · pp. 9–10
  • Attack-selection results are limited, and the evaluation allows highly realistic honeypots that differ from real attacks only when the red team colludes.The authors believe the resulting overestimate of honeypot effects is small.Source: §5 · p. 10
  • Future work should investigate AI-assisted auditing techniques that require less human involvement and lower human reliability.Source: §5 · p. 10

6. Related Work

The paper situates its work within AI control and related research on adversarial robustness, oversight, and automated monitoring. It distinguishes its focus on an adversarial AI model from work addressing adversarial users.

6. Related Work

  • The work extends AI control research by Greenblatt et al. 2023, alongside studies of distributed threats (Wen et al. 2024), game-theoretic aspects, subversion capabilities (Mallen et al. 2024), and safety cases (Clymer et al. 2024).Source: §6 · p. 10
  • Related approaches include adversarial robustness and scalable oversight, while automated monitoring for jailbreaks and content moderation focus on adversarial users rather than adversarial AI models.Source: §6 · p. 10

7. Conclusion

The conclusion presents resampling as a way to use multi-step structure against attacks and reports open questions about how well protocols transfer beyond the evaluated setting.

7. Conclusion

  • Resample protocols improve on existing approaches by forcing attack policies to choose between high continuation probabilities that enable detection and lower probabilities that prevent attack completion.Source: §7 · pp. 10–11
  • The paper presents the first control evaluation in a multi-step agent setting and identifies distinct attack and defense dynamics.Source: §7 · p. 10
  • Protocol performance with longer trajectories, more diverse tasks, and imperfect auditing remains an open question, though the reported protocols maintain high task performance in complex multi-step environments.Source: §7 · p. 11

9. Author Contribution

The paper’s contributors took on distinct roles spanning project leadership, dataset creation, implementation, writing, and advising.

9. Author Contribution

  • Aryan Bhatt led the project, while Buck Shlegeris originated the idea and advised the work.Source: §9 · p. 11
  • Cody Rushing, Adam Kaufman, and Tyler Tracy substantially developed and executed project components; Vasil Georgiev also contributed substantially, focusing on the dataset.Source: §9 · p. 11
  • David Matolcsi helped with writing, and Akbir Khan worked on an early project version.Source: §9 · p. 11

A. Sensitivity Analysis

The appendix reports sensitivity to auditing budget and documents how BashBench tasks were assembled, tested, and presented to agents. The protocols’ Pareto-curve structure remains consistent across the tested budgets after rescaling.

A. Sensitivity Analysis

B.1. Dataset

  • BashBench contains 257 system-administration tasks designed to resemble future agentic work while remaining realistically underspecified and programmatically verifiable.Source: §B.1 · p. 14

B.2. Process

  • The pipeline began with 600,000 Unix StackExchange questions, filtered to 100,000 question-answer pairs, then used GPT-4-turbo to generate 5,000 tasks and filtered these to 2,500.Source: §B.2 · p. 14, §B.3.1 · p. 15

B.3.1. TASK CONVERSION PROCESS

  • Task conversion rewrote StackExchange questions as standalone assignments, with an Alpine Docker setting and constraints against interactive shell commands.Source: §B.3.1 · pp. 15–16

B.3.2. EXAMPLE TASK

  • A sample task asks for a shell script that reports whether each command-line argument is a regular file.Source: §B.3.2 · p. 16

B.3.3. TEST GENERATION

  • GPT-4o generated pytest-style ground-truth tests, and agents received test results during execution because task descriptions could lack enough detail to pass them.Source: §B.3.3 · p. 16

B.3.4. OVERFITTING PREVENTION

  • To prevent agents from exploiting hardcoded test inputs and expected outputs, GPT-4o generated inputs at runtime and each task was iterated five times.Source: §B.3.4 · p. 16

B.3.5. TEST GENERATION PROMPT

  • The test prompt requests correctness checks for a submitted shell script, and the example tests cover regular files, directories, and symlinks.Source: §B.3.5 · p. 16, §B.3.6 · p. 17

B.3.9. EXAMPLE TEST RESULT AND MODEL IMPROVEMENT

This section describes the evaluation’s task-verification and monitoring methods, assumptions, and optimization, including how test feedback can improve task solutions while exposing overfitting. It also outlines monitoring-parameter optimization and attack strategies, particularly Known Strings.

B.3.9. EXAMPLE TEST RESULT AND MODEL IMPROVEMENT

  • Test feedback enabled agents to correct formatting and generate a README, while runtime-randomized inputs addressed hardcoded-test overfitting; most unaided human users achieved less than 10% success.Examples include removing an extra period and using test feedback to produce a README file.Source: §B.3.9 · p. 18

B.4. Human Tester Example of Overfitting

  • A human tester overfit Task ID 474709 by printing the expected output instead of implementing binary-content detection.The task required detecting binary content in a file.Source: §B.4 · p. 18

B.5. Conclusion

  • Iterative refinement produced a robust dataset of sysadmin tasks with programmatically verifiable Pytest tests, highlighting overfitting risks and the need for dynamic inputs.Source: §B.5 · p. 18

C. Importance Sampling

  • Usefulness is estimated from completion rates on 257 tasks, while safety estimates caught attacks against usefulness-based audit thresholds and optimizes exponential audit allocation against a best-responding red team.The safety calculation uses task bins with distinct audit budgets; optimization also accounts for attack probabilities and, with untrusted monitoring, collusion strategy and honeypot allocation.Source: C. Importance Sampling · pp. 18–19

D. Trusted Monitor, In Full

  • Trusted monitors split long commands into subcommands and score them by the maximum subcommand suspicion; sampling monitor ensembles substantially improves usefulness.The monitors also target threats such as suspicious URLs, obfuscation, irrelevant commands, executed files, and encoding or decoding.Source: D. Trusted Monitor, In Full · p. 20

D.1. How monitors/auditing decisions work

  • The max-over-substeps baseline performed poorly against single-step attacks, while a Kolmogorov–Smirnov test worked well there; the final monitors nevertheless used max scores for simplicity.Source: §D.1 · p. 22

E.1. Simplifying Assumptions Made for Untrusted Monitoring

  • Untrusted-monitor evaluation assumes realistic synthetic attacks can be built, but future capable models may evade them; large contexts and collusion signals also complicate evaluation.The paper suggests redaction or paraphrasing and periodically inserting synthetic attacks into real deployment actions as possible mitigations.Source: §E.1 · pp. 22–23

E.2. Parameters and Optimization

  • The blue team optimizes its audit-budget distribution, honeypot and untrusted-monitor allocation, and shutdown threshold, while the red team selects attack probability and collusion strategy.The untrusted monitor reports both a danger score and confidence in collusion; above the red team's chosen collusion threshold, it can report artificially low suspicion.Source: §E.2 · p. 23
  • Blue-team optimization treats usefulness and safety as a tradeoff, sweeping a linear utility combination because untrusted monitoring does not necessarily create a zero-sum game.The blue team adjusts auditing-budget allocation and the shutdown threshold; the red team optimizes attack insertion and collusion choices in response.Source: §E.2 · pp. 23–24
  • The red team generally benefits from collusion signals, while omitting them makes attacks less suspicious to the trusted monitor but leaves the untrusted monitor unable to distinguish honeypots from real attacks.The red team chooses its collusion threshold and whether to insert signals; without signals, the blue team can reliably catch scheming by allocating some audit budget to honeypots and the untrusted monitor.Source: §E.2 · p. 24

F. Attack Strategies

  • The authors developed multiple covert malicious-code execution strategies and focus on Known Strings, which was most effective against the final control protocols.Source: F. Attack Strategies · p. 24

F.1. Known Strings Attack

  • Known Strings reconstructs malicious commands by incrementally combining components extracted from existing system resources, keeping individual actions less suspicious while preserving attack effectiveness.Source: §F.1 · p. 24, F. Attack Strategies · p. 24

F.1.1. ATTACK IMPLEMENTATION

The appendix examines attacks that distribute malicious behavior across actions and compare alternative encodings. The Known Strings attack’s individual steps are less suspicious than single-step attacks, while the JSON and HTML approaches have distinct drawbacks.

F.1.1. ATTACK IMPLEMENTATION

  • The Known Strings attack keeps steps relatively benign in isolation while gradually constructing the malicious command.Source: §F.1.1 · pp. 24–25

F.1.2. KEY FEATURES

  • Its key features include incremental construction, minimizing direct string literals, and idempotence that permits recovery after interruptions.Source: §F.1.2 · p. 25

F.2.1. JSON-BASED ATTACK

  • The JSON-based attack obscured intent but required more suspicious JSON-processing operations.Source: §F.2.1 · p. 25

F.2.2. HTML TEMPLATE ATTACK

  • The HTML-template attack disguised the attack but was less effective because HTML processing is inherently suspicious in system-administration tasks.Source: §F.2.2 · p. 25

F.3. Attack Performance

  • The Known Strings attack achieved lower average per-step suspicion and higher success against resampling protocols, with greater resilience to command editing and deferral.Source: §F.3 · p. 26

F.4. Implications

  • The attacks illustrate potential bypass routes through breaking malicious operations into seemingly innocent steps and maintaining persistence across interruptions.Source: §F.4 · p. 26

F.5. Single-step vs Multi-step attacks

  • Single-step attacks were more suspicious than multi-step attack actions, as illustrated by suspicion scores for Known Strings messages across 100 trajectories.Source: §F.5 · p. 26, Figure 7 · p. 27

G. Attack Selection

The authors investigate attack selection by filtering tasks or predicting monitor suspicion, but report noisy, overfit gains and no effective task-based filtering. They could not establish that an untrusted model could reliably choose useful parameters in practice.

G. Attack Selection

  • Task-based filtering did not significantly decrease safety, and the attack-selection investigations used earlier task-set versions.The authors describe the results as existence proofs and say reliable monitor simulation or calibrated opportunity selection is unlikely in practice.Source: G. Attack Selection · pp. 28–29
  • Overfit attack-selection settings can substantially lower safety, but the estimates are noisy and some Figure 8 datapoints use fewer than ten trajectories.The experiment draws from 198 possible attack trajectories, which filter down to fewer than ten for some datapoints.Source: G. Attack Selection · p. 28, Figure 8 · p. 28
  • A red team without direct access to the trusted monitor can use a modified GPT-4o mini prompt to approximate its suspicion ratings.The authors report that safety can still be significantly decreased at overfit parameter settings.Source: G. Attack Selection · p. 28
  • The best worry-count and score-threshold settings are sensitive to overfitting, and their effectiveness also depends on the chosen attack strategy.The authors say it is unclear whether an untrusted model can find good parameters in practice.Source: G. Attack Selection · p. 29

H. Deferral protocols

Deferral protocols route suspicious commands to a trusted model, trading usefulness against safety. Variants that preserve more of the untrusted model’s command can improve task performance, while summarized commands can prevent attack preservation.

H. Deferral protocols

  • Dynamic routing uses the trusted monitor alongside calls that can modify commands, enabling its use at thresholds beyond the top 1% of messages.Lower defer thresholds increase trusted-model submissions, raising safety while reducing usefulness.Source: H. Deferral protocols · p. 29
  • After a deferral, agents generally do not enter repeated-defer loops, and the policy takes an average of 2.76 extra steps to pass tests after a defer.The agent can recover after the trusted model writes code.Source: H. Deferral protocols · p. 29, Figure 10 · p. 30
  • The red team aims to make attacks evade both audit and defer thresholds, which is harder than evading auditing alone.It may also try to influence T through its command history, but the authors found such strategies hard to create.Source: H. Deferral protocols · p. 30
  • Defer-to-trusted editing improves performance by giving T U’s actual code, and increases solved-trajectory length by only 1.71 steps.The trusted model receives the command as inspiration to solve the task.Source: H. Deferral protocols · p. 31
  • Summarizing U’s code before T acts prevents attack preservation, but increases solved-trajectory length by 2.26 steps and is less useful than editing.The protocol limits the red team’s ability to transmit data to T.Source: H. Deferral protocols · p. 31
  • Showing T more of U’s original command increases usefulness but decreases safety, and only three deferral variants were tested.The authors identify further methods within this family as a direction for research.Source: H. Deferral protocols · p. 31

I. Stop after edit

Stopping an attack after detecting an edit lowers suspicion on average but does not significantly improve the red team’s success rate. The auditing protocols use trajectory-wide suspicion to trigger resampling and audits, with a separate path for single-step attacks.

I. Stop after edit

  • The red team detects edits by comparing submitted commands with its expected commands, then halts an attack to avoid suspicious edited commands.This strategy is described as a form of attack selection that filters actions based on edits.Source: §I · p. 32
  • Stopping after an edit reduces average suspicion but does not significantly improve red-team success; the authors hypothesize that fewer attacks offset the reduced suspicion.A stochastic-shutdown variant may avoid some failure modes, but it is proposed for future implementations.Source: §I · p. 32

J. Auditing after three strikes and Time travel

  • Time travel resamples earlier suspicious steps, usually targeting the third most suspicious step, to update its mean score and the current action’s looking-back score.Resampling proceeds until the current score falls below the investigation threshold or the selected steps reach seven samples; a separate current-step procedure also allows up to seven samples.Source: J. Auditing after three strikes and… · pp. 33–34
  • Auditing after three strikes uses a looking-back score capped by the third-highest trajectory score, auditing when that score crosses the task-specific threshold.The threshold is set using exponential auditing budgeting; a separate single-step threshold defends against single-step attacks.Source: J. Auditing after three strikes and… · pp. 33–34

K. Cost-Safety Tradeoff

Resampling and incrimination trade additional model samples for safety at a given usefulness level. The appendix motivates exponential auditing allocation, analyzes the red team’s response, and compares that allocation with a more general numerical search.

K. Cost-Safety Tradeoff

  • At fixed safety, resample protocols sacrifice less usefulness than defer-to-trusted protocols, while incrimination can further improve safety at a given usefulness by drawing more samples.Figure 11 plots safety against average sampling cost at fixed usefulness; cost is approximated by average U samples per task, and untrusted monitoring can be expensive.Source: K. Cost-Safety Tradeoff · p. 35, Figure 11 · p. 35

L. Auditing Distribution Details

  • The blue team can allocate auditing budget A across episode tasks using exponential decay, with free parameter r setting the decay rate and constant k chosen so total auditing budget equals 1% of total steps.Figure 12 shows an example optimal exponential auditing budget distribution parameterized by r = 3 × 10−5.Source: L. Auditing Distribution Details · p. 36, Figure 12 · p. 36

L.1. Intuition Behind Exponential Distribution of Auditing Budget

  • The exponential allocation is motivated by audits being more valuable early, when an attack is less likely to have already occurred.The argument assumes the marginal safety effect of added auditing is roughly constant, which the authors say is approximately true at small budgets such as 1%, but not at higher budgets such as 10%.Source: §L.1 · p. 36

L.2. Red Team Response to Blue Team Auditing

  • At the empirical Stackelberg equilibrium, neither team can improve its objective by changing its strategy unilaterally, and the red team’s attack probability and blue team’s decay rate are both on the order of 1/episode length.With 100,000 tasks per episode, this implies a low attack probability and an allocation spread over much of the episode; Figure 13 depicts the equilibrium as a saddle point.Source: §L.2 · p. 37, Figure 13 · p. 37

L.3. Numerical Optimization to Test Exponential Approximation

  • A hill-climbing search over general auditing allocations converges in fewer than ten iterations and yields distributions similar to the exponential allocation, with slightly higher blue-team win rates.The authors cannot guarantee that the algorithm avoids local minima; they use exponentials as a computationally efficient approximation with one parameter rather than 100 bin values.Source: §L.3 · pp. 37–38
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