用少量标注实现大模型诚实性对齐,提升可信度。
Annotation-Efficient Universal Honesty Alignment
- 先用自一致性监督提取内部置信度,再小样本标注校准。
- 仅需1000条标注(0.18%)即接近最优对齐效果。
- 适合追求高可信度且标注资源有限的LLM应用者。
诚实性对齐——大语言模型识别知识边界并表达校准后置信度的能力——对于可信部署至关重要。现有方法或依赖无训练的置信度估计(如词元概率、自一致性),或依赖带正确性标注的训练校准。尽管有效,基于训练的通用诚实性对齐需大量昂贵标注。为支持标注高效训练,我们提出「启发-校准」(EliCal)两阶段框架:首先利用低成本自一致性监督提取内部置信度,再通过少量正确性标注进行校准。为支持大规模研究,我们发布HonestyBench基准,涵盖10个自由格式问答数据集,包含56万训练与7万评估实例,均标注了正确性与自一致性信号。实验表明,EliCal仅用1000条正确性标注(全监督的0.18%)即可达到近最优对齐效果,且在未见的MMLU任务上表现优于仅校准基线,为大模型通用诚实性对齐提供可扩展解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Honesty alignment-the ability of large language models (LLMs) to recognize their knowledge boundaries and express calibrated confidence-is essential for trustworthy deployment. Existing methods either rely on training-free confidence estimation (e.g., token probabilities, self-consistency) or training-based calibration with correctness annotations. While effective, achieving universal honesty alignment with training-based calibration requires costly, large-scale labeling. To support annotation-efficient training, we introduce Elicitation-Then-Calibration (EliCal), a two-stage framework that first elicits internal confidence using inexpensive self-consistency supervision, then calibrates this confidence with a small set of correctness annotations. To support a large-scale study, we release HonestyBench, a benchmark covering ten free-form QA datasets with 560k training and 70k evaluation instances annotated with correctness and self-consistency signals. Experiments show that EliCal achieves near-optimal alignment with only 1k correctness annotations (0.18% of full supervision) and better alignment performance on unseen MMLU tasks than the calibration-only baseline, offering a scalable solution toward universal honesty alignment in LLMs.
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