测试顶级推理模型在欺骗性否定攻击下的抗性,发现准确率下降超25%。
Benchmarking Gaslighting Negation Attacks Against Reasoning Models
- 设计欺骗性否定攻击,通过自信否认正确答案测试模型
- 三款顶尖模型平均准确率下降25%-29%,最严重超53%下降
- 新构建诊断基准GaslightingBench-R,揭示模型信念防御弱点
近期以推理为核心的模型通过链式思维提示和测试时扩展等机制,展现出更强的鲁棒性。然而,其对欺骗性否定攻击——即用户自信否认正确答案的对抗性提示——的抵抗能力仍缺乏研究。本文系统评估了三种前沿推理模型:OpenAI的o4-mini、Claude-3.7-Sonnet 和 Gemini-2.5-Flash,涵盖三个多模态基准:MMMU、MathVista 和 CharXiv。结果显示,受到欺骗性否定攻击后,模型平均准确率下降25%-29%,表明即使顶级模型在操纵性反馈下也难以维持正确答案。基于评估洞察,我们提出GaslightingBench-R,一个专门用于评估推理模型在欺骗性否定攻击下信念防御能力的新诊断基准。该基准从现有数据集中筛选并精炼1,025个高难度样本,导致模型平均准确率下降超过53%。研究揭示了逐步推理与对抗操纵防御之间的根本差距,呼吁开发新型鲁棒性策略以保护推理模型免受此类攻击。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in reasoning-centric models promise improved robustness through mechanisms such as chain-of-thought prompting and test-time scaling. However, their ability to withstand gaslighting negation attacks-adversarial prompts that confidently deny correct answers-remains underexplored. In this paper, we conduct a systematic evaluation of three state-of-the-art reasoning models, i.e., OpenAI's o4-mini, Claude-3.7-Sonnet and Gemini-2.5-Flash, across three multimodal benchmarks: MMMU, MathVista, and CharXiv. Our evaluation reveals significant accuracy drops (25-29% on average) following gaslighting negation attacks, indicating that even top-tier reasoning models struggle to preserve correct answers under manipulative user feedback. Built upon the insights of the evaluation and to further probe this vulnerability, we introduce GaslightingBench-R, a new diagnostic benchmark specifically designed to evaluate reasoning models' susceptibility to defend their belief under gaslighting negation attacks. Constructed by filtering and curating 1,025 challenging samples from the existing benchmarks, GaslightingBench-R induces even more dramatic failures, with accuracy drops exceeding 53% on average. Our findings highlight a fundamental gap between step-by-step reasoning and resistance to adversarial manipulation, calling for new robustness strategies that safeguard reasoning models against gaslighting negation attacks.
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