让大模型推理过程可追踪、可审计,提升高风险场景下的可信度。
Explicit Cognitive Allocation: A Principle for Governed and Auditable Inference in Large Language Models
- 将大模型推理拆分为探索、锚定、方法映射和解释合成四个阶段
- 在农业领域测试中,新方法收敛更快、对齐更稳定、能显化工具链
- 适合需要透明性和可验证性的科研与决策类应用
大语言模型的快速应用推动了科学、技术与组织领域的智能推理。然而,现有使用模式缺乏认知结构:问题定义、知识探索、检索、方法意识与解释常被混入单一生成过程,导致可追溯性差、认知控制弱、可复现性下降,尤其在高责任场景中问题突出。本文提出显式认知分配原则,通过显式分离与协调认知功能来结构化人工智能辅助推理。我们构建认知通用代理(CUA)架构,将推理分为探索与框架、认知锚定、工具与方法映射、解释合成四个阶段。核心是通用认知工具(UCIs),形式化计算、实验、组织、监管及教育等异构手段,使抽象问题可操作。在农业领域多提示测试中,相较于基线大模型,CUA推理表现出更早且结构化的认知收敛、语义扩展下更高的认知对齐,并系统揭示了问题求解的工具路径;而基线模型则对齐波动大,无法显式呈现工具结构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) has enabled new forms of AI-assisted reasoning across scientific, technical, and organizational domains. However, prevailing modes of LLM use remain cognitively unstructured: problem framing, knowledge exploration, retrieval, methodological awareness, and explanation are typically collapsed into a single generative process. This cognitive collapse limits traceability, weakens epistemic control, and undermines reproducibility, particularly in high-responsibility settings. We introduce Explicit Cognitive Allocation, a general principle for structuring AI-assisted inference through the explicit separation and orchestration of epistemic functions. We instantiate this principle in the Cognitive Universal Agent (CUA), an architecture that organizes inference into distinct stages of exploration and framing, epistemic anchoring, instrumental and methodological mapping, and interpretive synthesis. Central to this framework is the notion of Universal Cognitive Instruments (UCIs), which formalize heterogeneous means, including computational, experimental, organizational, regulatory, and educational instruments, through which abstract inquiries become investigable. We evaluate the effects of explicit cognitive and instrumental allocation through controlled comparisons between CUA-orchestrated inference and baseline LLM inference under matched execution conditions. Across multiple prompts in the agricultural domain, CUA inference exhibits earlier and structurally governed epistemic convergence, higher epistemic alignment under semantic expansion, and systematic exposure of the instrumental landscape of inquiry. In contrast, baseline LLM inference shows greater variability in alignment and fails to explicitly surface instrumental structure.
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