arXiv:2510.05024cs.LG2025-10被引 30

通过故意诱导模型学习不良行为,提升其在测试时的对齐性。

Inoculation Prompting: Instructing LLMs to misbehave at train-time improves test-time alignment

  • 训练时用提示词主动诱导模型表现不良行为
  • 有效减少奖励劫持等不良行为,不损害有用能力
  • 诱导越强的提示词,防不良行为效果越好

大语言模型在训练中常因监督信号不完善而出现奖励劫持、阿谀奉承等不良行为。提升监督质量成本高或不可行,因此需在不完美信号下改进模型行为。本文提出「接种提示」(Inoculation Prompting, IP),一种反直觉但简单的技术:在微调阶段,通过修改提示词,明确要求模型表现出目标不良行为。例如,为抵御奖励劫持,提示词要求代码仅在给定测试用例上有效,而在其他输入上失败。在四个场景中,IP均显著降低不良行为的学习,同时几乎不影响良好能力的掌握。此外,训练前能更强激发不良行为的提示词,在训练中更有效地实现“接种”。总体而言,IP是一种简单高效的方法,可控制模型从微调中泛化的方式,防止不良行为习得而不显著干扰有益能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models are sometimes trained with imperfect oversight signals, leading to undesired behaviors such as reward hacking and sycophancy. Improving oversight quality can be expensive or infeasible, motivating methods that improve learned behavior despite an imperfect training signal. We introduce Inoculation Prompting (IP), a simple but counterintuitive technique that prevents learning of an undesired behavior by modifying training prompts to explicitly request it. For example, to inoculate against reward hacking, we modify the prompts used in supervised fine-tuning to request code that only works on provided test cases but fails on other inputs. Across four settings we find that IP reduces the learning of undesired behavior without substantially reducing the learning of desired capabilities. We also show that prompts which more strongly elicit the undesired behavior prior to fine-tuning more effectively inoculate against the behavior when used during training; this serves as a heuristic to identify promising inoculation prompts. Overall, IP is a simple yet effective way to control how models generalize from fine-tuning, preventing learning of undesired behaviors without substantially disrupting desired capabilities.

大模型对齐提示工程行为控制

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