用专家的弱标注实现大模型可扩展评估与自我改进。
Towards Scalable Oversight via Partitioned Human Supervision
- 用领域专家的错误排除信号替代完整标注
- 证明弱标注可达到与真实标签相当的评估精度
- 适合需要多领域知识的大模型训练与自进化
随着人工智能系统在多种任务上逼近并超越人类专家表现,获取高质量的人类监督变得愈发困难。尤其在涉及多领域深度知识的任务中,这一瓶颈尤为严重。尽管顶尖专家仅精通单一狭窄领域,无法全面判断超人水平AI系统的正确性,但他们仍可提供弱信号——即指出某个选项不正确。例如,心脏病专家可称“这与心血管疾病无关”,即使无法确定真正病因。基于此弱信号,我们提出一种可扩展的监督框架,可在无需真实答案的情况下评估前沿AI系统。我们推导出从互补标签中无偏估计top-1准确率的方法,并量化了所需互补标签数量以匹配普通标签的方差。进一步引入两种估计器,融合稀疏普通标签与丰富互补标签。我们为纯互补与混合估计器提供了有限样本偏差保证。实验表明,仅需互补标签即可评估大语言模型输出;还可据此训练自主改进的智能体系统。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems approach and surpass expert human performance across a broad range of tasks, obtaining high-quality human supervision for evaluation and training becomes increasingly challenging. Our focus is on tasks that require deep knowledge and skills of multiple domains, where this bottleneck is severe. Unfortunately, even the best human experts are knowledgeable only in a single narrow area, and will not be able to evaluate the correctness of advanced AI systems on such superhuman tasks. However, based on their narrow expertise, humans may provide a weak signal, i.e., a complementary label indicating an option that is incorrect. For example, a cardiologist could state that ''this is not related to any cardiovascular disease,'' even if they cannot identify the true disease. Based on this weak signal, we propose a scalable oversight framework that enables us to evaluate frontier AI systems without the need to prepare the ground truth. We derive an unbiased estimator of top-1 accuracy from complementary labels and quantify how many complementary labels are needed to match the variance of ordinary labels. We further introduce two estimators to combine scarce ordinary labels with abundant complementary labels. We provide finite-sample deviation guarantees for both complementary-only and the mixed estimators. Empirically, we show that we can evaluate the output of large language models without the ground truth, if we have complementary labels. We further show that we can train an AI system with such weak signals: we show how we can design an agentic AI system automatically that can improve itself with this partitioned human supervision. Our code is available at https://github.com/R-Yin-217/Towards-Scalable-Oversight-via-Partitioned-Human-Supervision.
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