arXiv:2511.21709cs.CLcs.AI2025-11中稿 · to IJCNLP-AACL 202…被引 1

提出新方法精准量化并高效消除大模型在选择题中的答题偏见。

Quantifying and Mitigating Selection Bias in LLMs: A Transferable LoRA Fine-Tuning and Efficient Majority Voting Approach

  • 用无标签排列测试法直接衡量模型对选项顺序的依赖性。
  • 通过批处理缓存技术将投票计算成本降低80%以上。
  • 无需标注数据,可跨数据集通用,适合实际部署场景。

多项选择题(MCQ)是评估大语言模型性能的常用方式,但模型常因选项位置或符号等外部因素产生选择偏见,影响评估可靠性。现有度量方法需答案标签,且无法充分捕捉预测一致性;多数缓解策略存在计算开销大或泛化能力差的问题。本文提出三项贡献:(1) 一种无需标签的排列偏见度量(PBM),可直接量化模型在不同选项排列下的预测不一致程度;(2) 一种高效的批量问答上下文键值缓存(BaQCKV)投票方法,显著降低计算成本;(3) 基于PBM和BaQCKV的无监督低秩适配(LoRA-1)微调策略,有效抑制偏见且保持模型泛化能力。在多个MCQ基准测试中,所提方法显著提升预测一致性,准确率平均提高4.2%,同时计算成本降低超80%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) answering is a widely used method for evaluating the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, LLMs often exhibit selection bias in MCQ tasks, where their choices are influenced by factors like answer position or option symbols rather than the content. This bias undermines the reliability of MCQ as an evaluation framework. Most existing selection bias metrics require answer labels and measure divergences between prediction and answer distributions, but do not fully capture the consistency of a model's predictions across different orderings of answer choices. Existing selection bias mitigation strategies have notable limitations: majority voting, though effective, is computationally prohibitive; calibration-based methods require validation sets and often fail to generalize across datasets. To address these gaps, we propose three key contributions: (1) a new unsupervised label-free Permutation Bias Metric (PBM) that directly quantifies inconsistencies in model predictions across answer permutations, providing a more precise measure of selection bias, (2) an efficient majority voting approach called Batch Question-Context KV caching (BaQCKV), to significantly reduce computational costs while preserving bias mitigation effectiveness, and (3) an unsupervised Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA-1) fine-tuning strategy based on our proposed metric and the BaQCKV that mitigates selection bias, providing a computationally efficient alternative that maintains model generalizability. Experiments across multiple MCQ benchmarks demonstrate that our approaches reduce bias, increasing consistency in accuracy while minimizing computational costs.

大模型评测偏见消除高效推理

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