Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2610.10657/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTBeyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors — mentioned by khafrahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163957urn:hackerpapers:mention:2610.10657:50163957Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:25:40 GMT<p>Unfortunately, frontier models are all trained in part via distillation, and distillation can produce sleeper agents without ever mentioning the trigger phrase or the behavior (https://arxiv.org/html/2610.10657v1).</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2610.10657/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.LG