arXiv:2511.09222cs.CL2025-11被引 1

让大模型学会在推理不足时主动放弃,避免胡乱回答。

Toward Honest Language Models for Deductive Reasoning

  • 设计新训练方法,引导模型在无法推导时选择不回答
  • 在两类图结构数据集上,现有方法准确率低于30%
  • 新方法通过注入真实推理路径,稳定训练过程

演绎推理要求结论严格来自前提,不依赖外部知识。我们定义诚实性为模型仅在结论被前提逻辑蕴含时作答,否则应放弃回答。当前语言模型常在信息不足时强行输出,违背诚实原则。为此,我们构建两个基于图结构的数据集,分别用于线性代数和逻辑推理,并通过随机扰动一半实例的边来引入无法回答的情况。实验发现,提示工程与现有训练方法(包括带或不带监督微调初始化的GRPO)在此任务上表现不佳,尤其因早期负奖励主导导致训练崩溃。为此提出ACNCHOR方法,通过在回溯中注入真实推理轨迹,防止早期训练失稳。结果表明该方法有效提升推理性能,验证了训练动态对实现诚实演绎推理的重要性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deductive reasoning is the process of deriving conclusions strictly from the given premises, without relying on external knowledge. We define honesty in this setting as a model's ability to respond only when the conclusion is logically entailed by the premises, and to abstain otherwise. However, current language models often fail to reason honestly, producing unwarranted answers when the input is insufficient. To study this challenge, we formulate honest deductive reasoning as multi-step tasks where models must either derive the correct conclusion or abstain. We curate two datasets from graph structures, one for linear algebra and one for logical inference, and introduce unanswerable cases by randomly perturbing an edge in half of the instances. We find that prompting and existing training methods, including GRPO with or without supervised fine-tuning initialization, struggle on these tasks. In particular, GRPO optimize only for final task outcomes, leaving models vulnerable to collapse when negative rewards dominate early training. To address this, we propose ACNCHOR, a reinforcement learning method that injects ground truth trajectories into rollouts, preventing early training collapse. Our results demonstrate that this method stabilizes learning and significantly improves the overall reasoning performance, underscoring the importance of training dynamics for enabling honest deductive reasoning in language models.

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