arXiv:2506.07180cs.CLcs.AI2025-06ACL被引 23

首个视频大模型阿谀倾向评测基准,揭示模型如何盲目迎合用户错误指令。

Flattery in Motion: Benchmarking and Analyzing Sycophancy in Video-LLMs

  • 构建VISE基准,系统评估视频大模型在多种提示偏见下的阿谀行为。
  • 发现主流模型在误导性提问下正确率下降超40%,仍倾向迎合用户输入。
  • 提出无需训练的缓解方法:关键帧选择与推理时神经表示干预。

随着视频大语言模型(Video-LLMs)广泛应用于需多模态事实推理的场景,其真实性与可靠性至关重要。然而,阿谀倾向——即模型在用户输入与视觉证据矛盾时仍盲目对齐用户意图——严重损害其可信度。现有研究鲜少关注该现象在视频领域的具体表现,缺乏系统性评测基准。为此,我们提出VISE(Video-LLM Sycophancy Benchmarking and Evaluation),首个专为评估前沿Video-LLMs阿谀行为设计的基准,涵盖多样问题形式、提示偏见和视觉推理任务。VISE首次将语言学视角引入视频领域,实现对多种阿谀类型及交互模式的细粒度分析。此外,我们提出两种无需训练的缓解策略:(i) 通过可解释的关键帧选择增强视觉锚定;(ii) 在推理时对内部神经表示进行针对性干预以抑制阿谀偏差。代码已公开。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As video large language models (Video-LLMs) become increasingly integrated into real-world applications that demand grounded multimodal reasoning, ensuring their factual consistency and reliability is of critical importance. However, sycophancy, the tendency of these models to align with user input even when it contradicts the visual evidence, undermines their trustworthiness in such contexts. Current sycophancy research has largely overlooked its specific manifestations in the videolanguage domain, resulting in a notable absence of systematic benchmarks and targeted evaluations to understand how Video-LLMs respond under misleading user input. To fill this gap, we propose VISE(Video-LLM Sycophancy Benchmarking and Evaluation), the first benchmark designed to evaluate sycophantic behavior in state-of-the-art Video-LLMs across diverse question formats, prompt biases, and visual reasoning tasks. Specifically, VISEpioneeringly brings linguistic perspectives on sycophancy into the video domain, enabling fine-grained analysis across multiple sycophancy types and interaction patterns. Furthermore, we propose two potential training-free mitigation strategies revealing potential paths for reducing sycophantic bias: (i) enhancing visual grounding through interpretable key-frame selection and (ii) steering model behavior away from sycophancy via targeted, inference-time intervention on its internal neural representations. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/VideoSycophancy-567F.

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