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To develop a self-supervised deception detection framework for edge language models using contrastive representation learning instead of binary classification and heavyweight teacher models.

August 16, 2026PLoS ONEOpen Access

Contrastive representation learning for self-supervised deception detection in edge LLMs

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To develop a self-supervised deception detection framework for edge language models using contrastive representation learning instead of binary classification and heavyweight teacher models.
Designed a lightweight monitor using 0.1% of model parameters to project Chain-of-Thought (CoT) hidden states into a structured semantic space.
Optimized the monitor using Triplet Loss to separate deceptive and safe reasoning manifolds across gradual deceptive transitions.
Evaluated performance on the Sycophancy subset of the DeceptionBench benchmark against standard binary cross-entropy (BCE) classification.
Contrastive representation learning outperformed binary cross-entropy classification by reducing the Deception Tendency Rate (DTR) by 2.33 percentage points (36.96% vs. 39.29%, lower is better).
The geometric representation successfully distinguished subtle deceptive progressions ranging from surface hedging to fundamental objective substitution.

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Computational evaluation reveals superior deception detection in edge large language models, indicating that contrastive hidden-state modeling identifies nuanced deceptive reasoning strategies.

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An et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a81799af2fb91fc834acd41 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0354894

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Computational evaluation reveals superior deception detection in edge large language models, indicating that contrastive hidden-state modeling identifies nuanced deceptive reasoning strategies.

Contrastive representation learning for self-supervised deception detection in edge LLMs

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