arXiv:2410.07627cs.LGcs.AI2024-10ICLR被引 16

让大模型更敢答又不乱答,自动调整推理策略提升可靠性。

Automatic Curriculum Expert Iteration for Reliable LLM Reasoning

  • 通过课程化奖励机制引导模型在能力范围内大胆推理
  • 在数学和逻辑任务中显著降低幻觉率,同时减少盲目拒绝
  • 适合需要可靠推理的复杂任务场景,如科学计算与决策支持

大模型在推理中仍面临幻觉(生成看似合理但错误的内容)和懒惰(过度拒绝或默认回答‘我不知道’)两大挑战。现有方法多聚焦于知识相关事实错误,忽视了推理过程中的错误;部分方法使模型过于保守,削弱解题能力。为此,我们提出自动课程专家迭代(Auto-CEI),旨在增强大模型推理可靠性,使其在自身能力范围内果断作答,超出时合理拒绝。该方法利用专家迭代,在模型策略附近探索推理路径,纠正错误方向,减少错误累积,并在充分尝试后引导‘我不知’的回答。课程机制动态调整奖励,激励模型持续推理直至真正无法处理,从而拓展推理边界并实现行为与能力对齐。我们在逻辑推理、数学和规划任务上对比多种SOTA基线,结果表明Auto-CEI在平衡自信与保守性方面表现更优。代码已开源:https://github.com/SalesforceAIResearch/Auto-CEI。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Hallucinations (i.e., generating plausible but inaccurate content) and laziness (i.e. excessive refusals or defaulting to "I don't know") persist as major challenges in LLM reasoning. Current efforts to reduce hallucinations primarily focus on factual errors in knowledge-grounded tasks, often neglecting hallucinations related to faulty reasoning. Meanwhile, some approaches render LLMs overly conservative, limiting their problem-solving capabilities. To mitigate hallucination and laziness in reasoning tasks, we propose Automatic Curriculum Expert Iteration (Auto-CEI) to enhance LLM reasoning and align responses to the model's capabilities--assertively answering within its limits and declining when tasks exceed them. In our method, Expert Iteration explores the reasoning trajectories near the LLM policy, guiding incorrect paths back on track to reduce compounding errors and improve robustness; it also promotes appropriate "I don't know" responses after sufficient reasoning attempts. The curriculum automatically adjusts rewards, incentivizing extended reasoning before acknowledging incapability, thereby pushing the limits of LLM reasoning and aligning its behaviour with these limits. We compare Auto-CEI with various SOTA baselines across logical reasoning, mathematics, and planning tasks, where Auto-CEI achieves superior alignment by effectively balancing assertiveness and conservativeness. The code is available at https://github.com/SalesforceAIResearch/Auto-CEI .

大模型推理幻觉抑制专家迭代可靠性

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