arXiv:2506.11887cs.AIcs.CL2025-06NeurIPS被引 8

用多层模型分级决策,省钱又准。

Cascaded Language Models for Cost-effective Human-AI Decision-Making

  • 分三步走:基础模型先答,大模型重答,不行就交人。
  • 在多个数据集上准确率更高,成本更低。
  • 能自动学人类反馈,适应不同难易题。

人类与AI协作决策面临三大挑战:预测准确性、知识与推理成本,以及是否应放弃自动回答或转交人工的置信度判断。本文提出一种级联大模型决策框架,动态分配任务至多层级专家:基础模型生成初步答案,更强大但成本更高的大模型重生成答案,当级联模型无法确定时则交由人工处理。该方法分为两阶段:第一阶段基于置信度决定是否用大模型重答;第二阶段判断结果是否足够可信,否则需人工介入。为应对静态策略局限并适应任务难度变化,引入在线学习机制,利用人类反馈持续优化。实验涵盖通用问答(ARC-Easy、ARC-Challenge、MMLU)和医疗问答(MedQA、MedMCQA),结果表明,该级联策略在多数情况下优于单模型基线,实现更高准确率、更低开销,并提供可解释的拒答机制。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

A challenge in human-AI decision-making is to balance three factors: the correctness of predictions, the cost of knowledge and reasoning complexity, and the confidence about whether to abstain from automated answers or escalate to human experts. In this work, we present a cascaded LLM decision framework that adaptively delegates tasks across multiple tiers of expertise -- a base model for initial candidate answers, a more capable and knowledgeable (but costlier) large model, and a human expert for when the model cascade abstains. Our method proceeds in two stages. First, a deferral policy determines whether to accept the base model's answer or regenerate it with the large model based on the confidence score. Second, an abstention policy decides whether the cascade model response is sufficiently certain or requires human intervention. Moreover, to overcome static policies and accommodate changing task difficulty, we incorporate an online learning mechanism which uses human feedback. We demonstrate this approach to general question-answering (ARC-Easy, ARC-Challenge, and MMLU) and medical question-answering (MedQA and MedMCQA). Our results demonstrate that our cascaded strategy outperforms single-model baselines in most cases, achieving higher accuracy while reducing costs and providing a principled approach to handling abstentions.

多模型级联人机协作成本优化

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