用事后模拟提升大模型对齐效果,解决人工反馈误导问题。
RLHS: Mitigating Misalignment in RLHF with Hindsight Simulation
- 让评估器先看模拟结果再打分,切断输出对反馈的干扰
- 在三个场景中均显著优于传统强化学习人类反馈方法
- 适合需要高可信度对齐的AI应用,如客服与推荐系统
尽管基于人类反馈的强化学习(RLHF)在对齐生成式AI方面表现良好,但我们发现其可能导致严重的系统性偏差。我们提出,这是由于评估者依赖下游结果预测(前瞻性)而受AI输出影响,引发古德哈特定律效应。理论分析表明,将评估反馈基于下游观测(事后)可解耦对齐信号与可能被污染的预测——即使这些结果来自AI自身世界模型也有效。基于此,我们提出事后模拟强化学习(RLHS),在获取反馈前向评估者展示合理模拟结果。我们在三种咨询场景(市场交互、餐厅推荐、在线课程建议)中验证了RLHS,采用在线(PPO)和离线(DPO)微调方法,实验与人工评估均显示其显著优于RLHF。后验基准测试在TruthfulQA、HaluEval和TrustLLM上表明,单任务微调后RLHF仍存在偏差,而RLHS持续优于基线并展现稳健对齐泛化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
While Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has shown promise in aligning generative AI, we present empirical evidence that it can also cause severe, systematic misalignment. We hypothesize that this stems from evaluator feedback depending on downstream outcome predictions (foresight) that can be influenced by the AI's output, inducing Goodhart's law dynamics. We present a theoretical analysis showing that conditioning evaluator feedback on downstream observations (hindsight) inhibits this effect by decoupling the alignment signal from potentially compromised predictions--crucially, the result holds even if the observed outcomes are sampled from the AI's own world model. Building on this insight, we introduce Reinforcement Learning from Hindsight Simulation (RLHS), which presents plausible simulated outcomes to evaluators before eliciting feedback. We validate RLHS across three consultancy settings--marketplace interactions, restaurant recommendations, and online course advising--using both online (PPO) and offline (DPO) fine-tuning methods, and show that it substantially improves alignment over RLHF in experiments and human evaluations. We perform post-hoc benchmark evaluations on TruthfulQA, HaluEval, and TrustLLM, finding that even after single-task fine-tuning, RLHF misalignment persists, whereas RLHS consistently outperforms baselines and demonstrates robust alignment generalization. The project webpage and code are available at https://rl-hindsight.github.io.
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