用反事实推理消除多模态强化学习中的偏见,提升公平性与可靠性。
Counterfactual Reward Model Training for Bias Mitigation in Multimodal Reinforcement Learning
- 引入反事实信任评分,分解政治框架偏见与主题偏见
- 在假新闻数据集上实现89.12%检测准确率,降低虚假关联
- 适合关注公平性、动态决策的强化学习研究者
在人类反馈强化学习(RLHF)中,奖励模型可能高效学习并放大多模态数据集中的隐含偏见,导致错误的奖励信号和不公平策略优化。现有偏见缓解方法常采用被动约束,但在因果混杂下易失效。本文提出一种基于因果推断与多模态表示学习的反事实奖励模型,提供无监督、抗偏见的奖励信号。核心是反事实信任评分,包含四个部分:(1) 反事实迁移以分离政治框架偏见与主题偏见;(2) 反事实扰动下的重建不确定性;(3) 每个受保护属性的公平规则违反情况;(4) 与动态信任度对齐的时间奖励变化。在存在框架偏见、类别不平衡与分布漂移的多模态假新闻数据集上进行评估,并注入合成偏见测试鲁棒性。系统实现89.12%的假新闻检测准确率,优于基线模型,显著降低虚假相关性与不公平强化信号。该框架为公平感知的RLHF提供了可解释、可调参的解决方案,增强实时策略决策的可靠性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), reward models can efficiently learn and amplify latent biases within multimodal datasets, which can lead to imperfect policy optimization through flawed reward signals and decreased fairness. Bias mitigation studies have often applied passive constraints, which can fail under causal confounding. Here, we present a counterfactual reward model that introduces causal inference with multimodal representation learning to provide an unsupervised, bias-resilient reward signal. The heart of our contribution is the Counterfactual Trust Score, an aggregated score consisting of four components: (1) counterfactual shifts that decompose political framing bias from topical bias; (2) reconstruction uncertainty during counterfactual perturbations; (3) demonstrable violations of fairness rules for each protected attribute; and (4) temporal reward shifts aligned with dynamic trust measures. We evaluated the framework on a multimodal fake versus true news dataset, which exhibits framing bias, class imbalance, and distributional drift. Following methodologies similar to unsupervised drift detection from representation-based distances [1] and temporal robustness benchmarking in language models [2], we also inject synthetic bias across sequential batches to test robustness. The resulting system achieved an accuracy of 89.12% in fake news detection, outperforming the baseline reward models. More importantly, it reduced spurious correlations and unfair reinforcement signals. This pipeline outlines a robust and interpretable approach to fairness-aware RLHF, offering tunable bias reduction thresholds and increasing reliability in dynamic real-time policy making.
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