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Verbalizing Subliminal Learning Effects Using Text Optimization

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

Subliminal learning is a phenomenon in which a distillation dataset transmits traits from the teacher model that are not legibly encoded in the dataset itself. This introduces a new challenge for model development and creates new risks from data poisoning. In this work, we use text optimization to detect subliminal learning effects and describe them as legible prompts. Subliminal learning from a prompted teacher motivates our approach. We observe that this is a special case of context distillation and leverage this observation to show that, in theory, the prompted subliminal learning dataset i

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