arxiv: 2604.25119 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-28 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.CY

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Evaluation without Generation: Non-Generative Assessment of Harmful Model Specialization with Applications to CSAM

Ashia C. Wilson, Ayush Sekhari, Lena Stempfle, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Michael Simpson, Rebecca Portnoff, Robertson Wang, Vinith M. Suriyakumar

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keywords Gaussian probingnon-generative evaluationharmful specializationCSAM detectionmodel auditingLoRA adaptorsinternal representationssafety evaluation

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Gaussian probing distinguishes harmful fine-tuning from benign adaptations by measuring internal representation responses to Gaussian latent ensembles without sampling any outputs.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tackles the problem of auditing fine-tuned open-weight generative models for harmful specialization when generative evaluation is impractical or prohibited, as in domains like CSAM. It shifts assessment from outputs to the model's internal state, either parameters or representations. Gaussian probing is presented as a technique that tracks how LoRA adaptors alter responses to ensembles of Gaussian latents, yielding a signature that separates harmful from benign specializations. A reader would care because this offers a scalable way to perform platform-level checks where red-teaming or prompt-based testing cannot be applied due to legal or ethical limits on generation.

Core claim

Gaussian probing characterizes how LoRA adaptors perturb a model's internal representations by quantifying their responses to Gaussian latent ensembles. Unlike raw-weight comparisons, this method reliably separates benign from harmful specializations without requiring output sampling and stays effective under weight rescaling as an adversarial change. The approach is shown to work for detecting CSAM-specialized models, supplying a non-generative route to evaluate high-risk generative systems.

What carries the argument

Gaussian probing, a technique that measures perturbations to internal representations induced by LoRA adaptors through their responses to Gaussian latent ensembles.

If this is right

Auditing becomes possible at platform scale without ever producing restricted outputs.
The method continues to work after weight rescaling is applied to the adapted weights.
Evaluation extends to any high-risk domain where output generation is legally or ethically barred.
Capability assessment can rely on internal states rather than curated prompts or red-teaming.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same internal-probing logic could be adapted to flag other prohibited capabilities without direct generation tests.
Hosting platforms could embed the check into release pipelines to filter dangerous fine-tunes automatically.
If the signature proves general, non-generative methods might replace output sampling for many safety audits.

Load-bearing premise

The response patterns to Gaussian latent ensembles form a stable and distinct signature of harmful specialization that holds across domains and resists common evasions.

What would settle it

Observing a CSAM-specialized model whose Gaussian ensemble responses match those of a benign fine-tune, or a benign model whose responses trigger the harmful flag.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.25119 by Ashia C. Wilson, Ayush Sekhari, Lena Stempfle, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Michael Simpson, Rebecca Portnoff, Robertson Wang, Vinith M. Suriyakumar.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: (a) Key insight: LoRA fine-tuning shifts the model’s feature distribution, sepa view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Average AUROC, precision, and FPR across 5 fold CV fo all architectures view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Average AUROC values for intra-SFW, intra-NSFW, and cross-class dataset view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Robustness to weight rescaling under an adversarial setting. Both methods are trained on unmodified CivitAI LoRAs and evaluated on LoRAs whose perlayer weight deltas have been rescaled to unit Frobenius norm, removing magnitude information while preserving functional behavior. (a) Classification using random projections of weight matrices degrades substantially across all metrics, with AUROC dropping fro… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: AUROC across our three models (SD 1.5, SDXL 1.0, and FLUX.1-dev) com view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: CSAM detection error rates by true class, across architectures averaged over view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: AUPRC across our three models (SD 1.5, SDXL 1.0, and FLUX.1-dev) com view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Linear classifier trained on random subsets of varying sizes from the total pool view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Linear classifier trained on random subsets of varying sizes from the total pool view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Linear classifier trained on random subsets of varying sizes from the total pool view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Standard cross-validation results for SD 1.5 on controlled adult sexual content view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Additional metrics for standard cross-validation results for SD 1.5 on controlled view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: Standard cross-validation results for SDXL 1.0 on controlled adult sexual view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: Additonal metrics for standard cross-validation results for SDXL 1.0 on con view at source ↗

**Figure 15.** Figure 15: Standard cross-validation results for SDXL FLUX.1-dev on controlled adult view at source ↗

**Figure 16.** Figure 16: Additional metrics for standard cross-validation results for SDXL FLUX.1-dev view at source ↗

**Figure 17.** Figure 17: Module ablation for Gaussian probing across architectures. We compare probes view at source ↗

**Figure 18.** Figure 18: Per-class metrics across architectures (rows: SD 1.5, SDXL, FLUX.1-dev; view at source ↗

**Figure 19.** Figure 19: Per-layer probe performance on wild CivitAI SD 1.5 LoRAs. We compare Gaus view at source ↗

**Figure 20.** Figure 20: Per-layer probe performance on wild CivitAI SDXL 1.0 LoRAs. We com view at source ↗

**Figure 21.** Figure 21: Per-layer probe performance on wild CivitAI FLUX.1-dev LoRAs. We compare view at source ↗

**Figure 22.** Figure 22: CSAM detection error counts by true class, across architectures. Gaussian view at source ↗

**Figure 23.** Figure 23: Best single-layer probe vs. best ensemble on wild CivitAI SD15. Ensembling view at source ↗

**Figure 24.** Figure 24: Best single-layer probe vs. best ensemble on wild CivitAI SDXL 1.0. Ensem view at source ↗

**Figure 25.** Figure 25: Best single-layer probe vs. best ensemble on wild CivitAI FLUX.1-dev. En view at source ↗

**Figure 26.** Figure 26: Comparing performance of different ensembling strategies on wild CivitAI SD view at source ↗

**Figure 27.** Figure 27: Comparing performance of different ensembling strategies on wild CivitAI view at source ↗

**Figure 28.** Figure 28: Comparing performance of different ensembling strategies on wild CivitAI view at source ↗

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Auditing the fine-tunes of open-weight generative models for harmful specialization has become a new governance challenge for model hosting platforms. The standard toolkit, generative evaluation via curated prompts or red-teaming, does not scale to platform-level auditing and breaks down entirely for domains like CSAM where generation is legally constrained. This motivates the Evaluation without Generation problem: assessing model capabilities without producing outputs. We argue that in such settings, capability must be inferred from the model's state, either its parameters or internal representations, rather than its outputs. We introduce Gaussian probing, a method that characterizes how LoRA adaptors perturb a model's internal representations by measuring responses to Gaussian latent ensembles. Unlike raw-weight baselines, Gaussian probing reliably distinguishes benign from harmful specialization without sampling outputs. We demonstrate effectiveness in high-risk domains, including detecting models specialized for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), where output-based evaluation is legally and ethically constrained. Our results show that Gaussian probing provides a scalable non-generative alternative for evaluating high-risk generative systems and remains robust to weight rescaling, a representative adversarial manipulation.

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Gaussian probing gives a workable non-generative way to flag harmful LoRA specializations by tracking representation shifts, but the robustness story needs tighter checks on generality and evasion.

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Gaussian probing is the main new piece here. It feeds Gaussian latent ensembles into a model and tracks how LoRA adapters shift the internal representations, then uses that signature to separate benign fine-tunes from harmful ones like CSAM specialization. The claim is that this works without ever generating outputs and holds up better than raw-weight baselines, including under weight rescaling as an attack. That directly tackles the scaling and legal problems with output-based auditing for restricted domains, which is a concrete governance need for model hosts. The paper frames the problem cleanly and shows the method is simple enough to implement on top of existing representation tools. Credit to the authors for testing at least one realistic evasion tactic instead of stopping at the basic case. The results appear to support the distinction in the domains they tried, which is better than many abstract-only safety claims. The soft spots are mostly around scope and controls. The separation looks reliable in the reported settings, but it is not yet clear how sensitive the signature is to other adapter types, different base models, or subtler manipulations beyond rescaling. If the Gaussian ensemble choice turns out to be tuned to the tested harmful cases, the method could lose power on new specializations. The paper would be stronger with more ablations on ensemble parameters and a broader set of benign adaptations to rule out false positives. This is for readers working on model auditing, open-weight governance, or safety tooling rather than core theory. Anyone running platform-scale checks on fine-tunes would get immediate value from the idea even before the numbers are fully stress-tested. I would send it to peer review. The central approach is coherent and addresses a real gap, so referees can help tighten the experimental claims without starting from scratch.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper addresses the 'Evaluation without Generation' problem for auditing fine-tuned open-weight generative models for harmful specialization (e.g., CSAM) where output sampling is legally or ethically constrained. It proposes Gaussian probing, which infers capabilities from how LoRA adaptors perturb internal representations by measuring model responses to Gaussian latent ensembles. The central claim is that this non-generative approach reliably distinguishes harmful from benign specializations and remains robust to representative adversarial manipulations such as weight rescaling.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the work provides a scalable, state-based auditing tool that could fill a critical gap in AI governance for high-risk domains. By shifting evaluation from outputs to internal representations, it enables platform-level checks without violating constraints on generation. The robustness result and focus on LoRA-induced shifts are practical strengths for deployment.

major comments (2)

Abstract: The assertion that Gaussian probing 'reliably distinguishes benign from harmful specialization without sampling outputs' and 'remains robust to weight rescaling' is presented without any experimental details, datasets, metrics, baselines, or statistical evidence. This is load-bearing for the central claim, as the reader's strongest claim and the paper's effectiveness demonstration cannot be evaluated from the given text.
Method (Gaussian probing description): The claim that responses to Gaussian latent ensembles yield a stable, generalizable signature distinct from benign adaptations lacks concrete specification of ensemble construction, measured statistics, or quantitative separability criteria. Without these, it is impossible to verify whether the approach avoids the weakest assumption (evasion by other manipulations) or reduces to a fitted quantity.

minor comments (1)

Abstract: Consider adding a one-sentence overview of the experimental scope (e.g., number of models or domains tested) to help readers gauge the strength of the 'high-risk domains' demonstration.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and outline revisions that will strengthen the presentation of our central claims while preserving the paper's focus on non-generative evaluation.

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Referee: Abstract: The assertion that Gaussian probing 'reliably distinguishes benign from harmful specialization without sampling outputs' and 'remains robust to weight rescaling' is presented without any experimental details, datasets, metrics, baselines, or statistical evidence. This is load-bearing for the central claim, as the reader's strongest claim and the paper's effectiveness demonstration cannot be evaluated from the given text.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by incorporating high-level empirical support for the load-bearing claims. In the revised version, we will expand the abstract to reference the key experimental outcomes from our CSAM and benign specialization benchmarks, including the datasets used, the primary metric for distinction, and the robustness evaluation under weight rescaling. The full details on datasets, metrics, baselines, and statistical tests remain in Sections 4 and 5; the abstract revision will make these results visible at the outset without altering the manuscript's length constraints. revision: yes
Referee: Method (Gaussian probing description): The claim that responses to Gaussian latent ensembles yield a stable, generalizable signature distinct from benign adaptations lacks concrete specification of ensemble construction, measured statistics, or quantitative separability criteria. Without these, it is impossible to verify whether the approach avoids the weakest assumption (evasion by other manipulations) or reduces to a fitted quantity.

Authors: The manuscript's Section 3 defines Gaussian probing via responses to Gaussian latent ensembles, but we acknowledge that additional concrete details would improve verifiability. We will revise the method description to specify ensemble construction (sampling from a zero-mean unit-variance Gaussian in the model's latent space), the measured statistics (layer-wise shifts in internal activations), and the separability criteria (a threshold on the resulting probing vector that separates harmful from benign LoRA adaptations). These additions will clarify that the signature derives from general representation perturbations rather than task-specific fitting and will include a brief discussion of why the approach is not trivially evaded by the manipulations considered in our robustness experiments. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces Gaussian probing as an empirical technique to infer harmful specialization from internal model representations via responses to Gaussian latent ensembles, without any derivation chain, equations, or first-principles results that reduce the claimed distinction to a fitted quantity or self-referential definition. The central claim is framed as an observable statistical separation between benign and harmful LoRA adaptations, supported by experimental results rather than by construction from the method's own inputs. No self-citations, ansatzes, or uniqueness theorems are invoked in a load-bearing manner that would collapse the evaluation to tautology. The approach remains self-contained as a non-generative inference method.

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Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the method is described at a conceptual level only.

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