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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors

As of 8 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 35 of 35 outbound references and 4 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2505.14300.

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This paper cites Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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This paper cites Obfuscated Activations Bypass LLM Latent-Space Defenses.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Obfuscated Activations Bypass LLM Latent-Space Defenses

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This paper cites Towards evaluations-based safety cases for AI scheming.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Towards evaluations-based safety cases for AI scheming

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This paper cites Autoencoders.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Autoencoders

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This paper cites Taken out of context: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Taken out of context: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs

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This paper cites Safety cases for frontier AI.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Safety cases for frontier AI

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This paper cites Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?

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This paper cites Towards Trustworthy and Aligned Machine Learning: A Data-centric Survey with Causality Perspectives.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Towards Trustworthy and Aligned Machine Learning: A Data-centric Survey with Causality Perspectives

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This paper cites Backdoor defense, learnability and obfuscation, 2025.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Backdoor defense, learnability and obfuscation, 2025

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This paper cites Safety Cases: How to Justify the Safety of Advanced AI Systems.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Safety Cases: How to Justify the Safety of Advanced AI Systems

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This paper cites Industrial monitoring system, 2025.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Industrial monitoring system, 2025

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Observation ed1e148c-abaa-4d1d-8bf4-ae87b7a95e22 · outbound

This paper cites Dynamic safety cases for frontier AI.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Dynamic safety cases for frontier AI

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This paper cites Challenges with unsupervised LLM knowledge discovery.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Challenges with unsupervised LLM knowledge discovery

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This paper cites Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Reference 16

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Observation baccc249-5cf1-47a5-9688-517136c1f0f1 · outbound

This paper cites Alignment faking in large language models.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Alignment faking in large language models

Reference 17

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This paper cites LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

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This paper cites Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

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This paper cites The Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors The Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?

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This paper cites Me, myself, and ai: The situational awareness dataset (sad) for llms.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Me, myself, and ai: The situational awareness dataset (sad) for llms

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors SGDR: Stochastic Gradient Descent with Warm Restarts

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization

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This paper cites The "Beatrix'' Resurrections: Robust Backdoor Detection via Gram Matrices.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors The "Beatrix'' Resurrections: Robust Backdoor Detection via Gram Matrices

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This paper cites On the generalized distance in statistics.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors On the generalized distance in statistics

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Ai models can be dangerous before public deployment

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Metr’s gpt-4.5 pre-deployment evaluations

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors CROW: Eliminating Backdoors from Large Language Models via Internal Consistency Regularization

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Robust Backdoor Detection for Deep Learning via Topological Evolution Dynamics

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Rail track monitoring system, 2025

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This paper cites Universal Jailbreak Backdoors from Poisoned Human Feedback.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Universal Jailbreak Backdoors from Poisoned Human Feedback

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Aviation safety monitoring system, 2025

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks via Layer-specific Editing

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Beyond Linear Probes: Dynamic Safety Monitoring for Language Models cites this paper.

Beyond Linear Probes: Dynamic Safety Monitoring for Language Models Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors

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Quantifying Subliminal Behavioral Transfer Ratios in Language Model Distillation cites this paper.

Quantifying Subliminal Behavioral Transfer Ratios in Language Model Distillation Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors

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Quantifying Subliminal Behavioral Transfer Ratios in Language Model Distillation cites this paper.

Quantifying Subliminal Behavioral Transfer Ratios in Language Model Distillation Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors

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LLM Scheming Inversely Scales with Pretraining Language Coverage cites this paper.

LLM Scheming Inversely Scales with Pretraining Language Coverage Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors

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