You Can't Escape Your Own Activations : Evaluation Awareness and Multi-Agent Monitoring
LLM agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems, where they can collude while keeping their actions benign. Output monitors designed to detect such collusions can be fooled by obfuscation and steganography, motivating the use of probes trained on internal activations. However, these probes are usually evaluated on agents that do not know they are being watched. We study how activation-based detection changes when agents are explicitly informed that their internal activations are being monitored, and when they additionally receive feedback from the monitor. We keep the models, probes, and thresholds fixed and change only what the agents are told: nothing (baseline), that an act...
| Authors | Aritra Das, Jaee Ponde, Mihir More et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.MA |
| Published | 2 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 2 September 2026 |
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