让视频大模型学会拒绝无法回答的问题,提升真实场景下的可靠性。
Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models

- 提出'可回答性对齐'框架,训练模型判断问题是否在视频信息范围内。
- 实测顶尖视频大模型仍会强行回答无关问题,暴露其缺乏拒绝能力。
- 构建专用数据集生成管道,支持评估和优化模型的拒绝行为。
多模态大语言模型通过将不同模态对齐到语言空间取得显著进展,其中视频大语言模型(Video-LLMs)是重要代表。现有方法主要基于视频内容生成问题进行训练,但现实场景中用户常提出超出视频信息范围的问题。我们发现,即使表现最佳的Video-LLMs也未能有效拒绝不相关问题,原因并非理解能力不足,而是缺乏拒绝训练。为此,我们提出“可回答性对齐”框架,使Video-LLMs能根据视频内容评估问题相关性,并在超出范围时合理拒绝回答;同时设计了包含多项指标的评估体系,用于量化模型对齐前后的行为变化。此外,我们提出一个数据集构建流水线,利用现有视频-描述配对数据生成适用于该任务的训练数据。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In the broader context of deep learning, Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved significant breakthroughs by leveraging powerful Large Language Models as a backbone to align different modalities into the language space. A prime exemplification is the development of Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs). While numerous advancements have been proposed to enhance the video understanding capabilities of these models, they are predominantly trained on questions generated directly from video content. However, in real-world scenarios, users often pose questions that extend beyond the informational scope of the video, highlighting the need for Video-LLMs to assess the relevance of the question. We demonstrate that even the best-performing Video-LLMs fail to reject unfit questions-not necessarily due to a lack of video understanding, but because they have not been trained to identify and refuse such questions. To address this limitation, we propose alignment for answerability, a framework that equips Video-LLMs with the ability to evaluate the relevance of a question based on the input video and appropriately decline to answer when the question exceeds the scope of the video, as well as an evaluation framework with a comprehensive set of metrics designed to measure model behavior before and after alignment. Furthermore, we present a pipeline for creating a dataset specifically tailored for alignment for answerability, leveraging existing video-description paired datasets.
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