arXiv:2507.08371cs.CL2025-07被引 3

用模型自认为正确的数据微调,比用真实正确数据更有效防幻觉。

The Curious Case of Factuality Finetuning: Models' Internal Beliefs Can Improve Factuality

  • 用模型自己判断为真的生成数据做微调
  • 在长文本生成中幻觉率显著降低
  • 适合想提升生成事实性的研究者和开发者

语言模型容易产生幻觉——生成事实错误的内容。虽然在高质量事实数据上微调可能减少幻觉,但获取真实正确数据成本高,且训练于陌生正确数据可能引发更多下游幻觉。本文研究了微调数据的真实性与长文本生成中幻觉频率的关系。反直觉地发现:在模型自认为真实的生成数据上微调,效果优于在真实正确数据上微调。我们评估了对真实数据和生成数据的过滤策略,结果表明,用模型自身判断过滤后的生成数据进行微调,整体事实性表现最佳,优于仅用模型判断过滤的真实数据、仅用真实数据或由真实数据支持的生成数据。该改进在三个领域均有效,表明模型自身的信念可成为强大的事实性信号。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Language models are prone to hallucination - generating text that is factually incorrect. Finetuning models on high-quality factual information can potentially reduce hallucination, but concerns remain; obtaining factual gold data can be expensive and training on correct but unfamiliar data may potentially lead to even more downstream hallucination. What data should practitioners finetune on to mitigate hallucinations in language models? In this work, we study the relationship between the factuality of finetuning data and the prevalence of hallucinations in long-form generation tasks. Counterintuitively, we find that finetuning on factual gold data is not as helpful as finetuning on model-generated data that models believe to be factual. Next, we evaluate filtering strategies applied on both factual gold data and model-generated data, and find that finetuning on model-generated data that is filtered by models' own internal judgments often leads to better overall factuality compared to other configurations: training on gold data filtered by models' judgments, training on gold data alone, or training on model-generated data that is supported by gold data. These factuality improvements transfer across three domains we study, suggesting that a models' own beliefs can provide a powerful signal for factuality.

幻觉抑制微调策略模型信念

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