用弱监督提升大模型真实度,防欺骗且无需标准答案
Truthfulness Despite Weak Supervision: Evaluating and Training LLMs Using Peer Prediction
- 基于同行预测机制,通过互可预测性奖励诚实回答
- 80亿参数模型经训练后恢复90%以上真实性,即使奖励模型仅1.35亿参数
- 适合评估强模型或缺乏标准答案的场景,抗欺骗能力随模型差距增大而增强
大语言模型的评估与后训练依赖监督信号,但复杂任务中强监督常不可得,导致模型可能利用不完善的评估机制产生欺骗性结果。本文借鉴机制设计中的博弈论激励相容思想,引入同行预测方法进行模型评估与训练。该方法通过互可预测性评分,无需真实标签即可奖励诚实、有信息量的回答,抑制欺骗行为。理论与实证均表明其有效性:使用高达4050亿参数的模型验证,以0.135亿参数的未微调模型生成奖励信号,仍能使80亿参数模型在恶意微调后的真理性损失恢复近90%。评估方面,同行预测呈现反向缩放现象——当专家与参与者能力差距越大,越能抵抗欺骗,即使模型规模相差超过100倍仍有效;而传统LLM作为裁判在面对5-20倍于自身规模的欺骗模型时已接近随机猜测。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The evaluation and post-training of large language models (LLMs) rely on supervision, but strong supervision for difficult tasks is often unavailable, especially when evaluating frontier models. In such cases, models are demonstrated to exploit evaluations built on such imperfect supervision, leading to deceptive results. However, underutilized in LLM research, a wealth of mechanism design research focuses on game-theoretic incentive compatibility, i.e., eliciting honest and informative answers with weak supervision. Drawing from this literature, we introduce the peer prediction method for model evaluation and post-training. It rewards honest and informative answers over deceptive and uninformative ones, using a metric based on mutual predictability and without requiring ground truth labels. We demonstrate the method's effectiveness and resistance to deception, with both theoretical guarantees and empirical validation on models with up to 405B parameters. We show that training an 8B model with peer prediction-based reward recovers most of the drop in truthfulness due to prior malicious finetuning, even when the reward is produced by a 0.135B language model with no finetuning. On the evaluation front, in contrast to LLM-as-a-Judge which requires strong and trusted judges, we discover an inverse scaling property in peer prediction, where, surprisingly, resistance to deception is strengthened as the capability gap between the experts and participants widens, enabling reliable evaluation of strong models with weak supervision. In particular, LLM-as-a-Judge become worse than random guess when facing deceptive models 5-20x the judge's size, while peer prediction thrives when such gaps are large, including in cases with over 100x size difference.
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