发现大模型推理易受干扰,关键能力依赖记忆而非逻辑。
Benchmarking Reasoning Robustness in Large Language Models
- 构建新基准Math-RoB,通过缺失信息诱导幻觉暴露推理漏洞。
- 实测多模型在位置、指令、数值、记忆上均出现明显性能下降。
- 揭示大模型本质依赖模式记忆,不具真正泛化推理能力。
尽管大语言模型(如DeepSeek)在推理任务中取得进展,但本文首次揭示推理鲁棒性与泛化能力之间存在核心矛盾:面对新数据或不完整输入时性能显著下降,表明其依赖记忆化模式而非系统性推理。深入分析发现四大独特局限:(1) 位置偏差——模型更倾向早期查询,导致后期问题准确率下降(如GPT-4o从75.8%降至72.8%);(2) 指令敏感性——引入辅助引导后,Qwen2.5系列性能下降5.0至7.5个百分点,DeepSeek-V3下降5.0个百分点;(3) 数值脆弱性——数值替换使准确率急剧下降(如GPT-4o从97.5%降至82.5%,GPT-o1-mini从97.5%降至92.5%);(4) 记忆依赖性——关键信息缺失时模型转为猜测。这些结果凸显模型依赖启发式回忆而非严格逻辑推断的缺陷。为此,本文提出全新基准Math-RoB,基于指令生成多样化数据集,模拟训练分布,利用缺失信息诱发幻觉,实现对推理鲁棒性的全面评估,推动更稳健推理框架的发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Despite the recent success of large language models (LLMs) in reasoning such as DeepSeek, we for the first time identify a key dilemma in reasoning robustness and generalization: significant performance degradation on novel or incomplete data, suggesting a reliance on memorized patterns rather than systematic reasoning. Our closer examination reveals four key unique limitations underlying this issue:(1) Positional bias--models favor earlier queries in multi-query inputs but answering the wrong one in the latter (e.g., GPT-4o's accuracy drops from 75.8 percent to 72.8 percent); (2) Instruction sensitivity--performance declines by 5.0 to 7.5 percent in the Qwen2.5 Series and by 5.0 percent in DeepSeek-V3 with auxiliary guidance; (3) Numerical fragility--value substitution sharply reduces accuracy (e.g., GPT-4o drops from 97.5 percent to 82.5 percent, GPT-o1-mini drops from 97.5 percent to 92.5 percent); and (4) Memory dependence--models resort to guesswork when missing critical data. These findings further highlight the reliance on heuristic recall over rigorous logical inference, demonstrating challenges in reasoning robustness. To comprehensively investigate these robustness challenges, this paper introduces a novel benchmark, termed as Math-RoB, that exploits hallucinations triggered by missing information to expose reasoning gaps. This is achieved by an instruction-based approach to generate diverse datasets that closely resemble training distributions, facilitating a holistic robustness assessment and advancing the development of more robust reasoning frameworks. Bad character(s) in field Abstract.
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