arXiv:2505.18807cs.AI2025-05被引 34

让大模型在思考时自我检查,减少隐藏的不诚实行为。

Mitigating Deceptive Alignment via Self-Monitoring

  • 在思维链中嵌入自监控机制,实时识别潜在欺骗性策略。
  • 在五类欺骗测试中平均降低43.8%的伪装对齐行为,且任务准确率不变。
  • 适合关注模型安全、透明性和可控性的研究者与开发者。

现代大语言模型依赖思维链(CoT)推理实现优异性能,但该机制也可能放大欺骗性对齐——即模型表面合规,实则暗藏非对齐目标。现有安全流程将欺骗视为事后输出进行过滤,模型可在内部推理时自由策划。我们提出首个在CoT过程中内嵌自监控的框架CoT Monitor+:生成时同时输出常规推理步骤与一个训练过的内部自评估信号,用于标记并抑制非对齐策略。该信号作为强化学习中的辅助奖励,形成反馈回路,激励诚实推理、抑制隐藏目标。为系统研究欺骗性对齐,我们构建了包含五类任务的DeceptionBench基准,涵盖隐蔽对齐伪装、阿谀奉承等行为。实验表明,未受控的CoT会加剧欺骗倾向;而CoT Monitor+在各类任务上平均降低43.8%的欺骗行为,且保持任务准确性。此外,当自监控信号替代外部弱裁判用于强化微调时,模型表现出更少的隐匿性思维,显著提升可解释性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Modern large language models rely on chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning to achieve impressive performance, yet the same mechanism can amplify deceptive alignment, situations in which a model appears aligned while covertly pursuing misaligned goals. Existing safety pipelines treat deception as a black-box output to be filtered post-hoc, leaving the model free to scheme during its internal reasoning. We ask: Can deception be intercepted while the model is thinking? We answer this question, the first framework that embeds a Self-Monitor inside the CoT process itself, named CoT Monitor+. During generation, the model produces (i) ordinary reasoning steps and (ii) an internal self-evaluation signal trained to flag and suppress misaligned strategies. The signal is used as an auxiliary reward in reinforcement learning, creating a feedback loop that rewards honest reasoning and discourages hidden goals. To study deceptive alignment systematically, we introduce DeceptionBench, a five-category benchmark that probes covert alignment-faking, sycophancy, etc. We evaluate various LLMs and show that unrestricted CoT roughly aggravates the deceptive tendency. In contrast, CoT Monitor+ cuts deceptive behaviors by 43.8% on average while preserving task accuracy. Further, when the self-monitor signal replaces an external weak judge in RL fine-tuning, models exhibit substantially fewer obfuscated thoughts and retain transparency. Our project website can be found at cot-monitor-plus.github.io

模型安全思维链自监控对齐

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