arXiv:2602.10117cs.LGcs.AI2026-02被引 8

自动发现大模型推理中隐藏的偏见,无需预先设定类别。

Biases in the Blind Spot: Detecting What LLMs Fail to Mention

  • 用自动生成的评分器筛选潜在偏见概念,黑盒检测。
  • 在招聘、贷款等任务中发现西班牙语能力等未知偏见。
  • 适合研究模型公平性或安全评估的开发者与研究人员。

大型语言模型(LLMs)的思维链(CoT)推理看似合理,却可能隐藏未言明的内部偏见。我们称其为未表述偏见。仅通过模型声明的推理来监控不可靠,且现有偏见评估通常依赖预设类别和人工构建数据集。本文提出一种完全自动化、黑盒式的任务特定未表述偏见检测管道。给定任务数据集,该管道使用LLM自评器生成候选偏见概念,再通过生成正负样本并逐步扩大输入规模,结合统计多重检验与早期停止策略进行验证。若某概念导致显著性能差异但未被模型在思维链中提及,则标记为未表述偏见。我们在三个决策任务(招聘、贷款审批、大学录取)上对七种LLM进行了评估。该方法自动发现了此前未知的偏见(如西班牙语流利度、英语熟练度、写作正式性),同时验证了已有研究中手动识别的偏见(性别、种族、宗教、族裔)。本方法为自动、高效、广泛的任务特定未表述偏见发现提供了可行路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large Language Models (LLMs) often provide chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning traces that appear plausible, but may hide internal biases. We call these unverbalized biases. Monitoring models via their stated reasoning is therefore unreliable, and existing bias evaluations typically require predefined categories and hand-crafted datasets. In this work, we introduce a fully automated, black-box pipeline for detecting task-specific unverbalized biases. Given a task dataset, the pipeline uses LLM autoraters to generate candidate bias concepts. It then tests each concept on progressively larger input samples by generating positive and negative variations, and applies statistical techniques for multiple testing and early stopping. A concept is flagged as an unverbalized bias if it yields statistically significant performance differences while not being cited as justification in the model's CoTs. We evaluate our pipeline across seven LLMs on three decision tasks (hiring, loan approval, and university admissions). Our technique automatically discovers previously unknown biases in these models (e.g., Spanish fluency, English proficiency, writing formality). In the same run, the pipeline also validates biases that were manually identified by prior work (gender, race, religion, ethnicity). More broadly, our proposed approach provides a practical, scalable path to automatic, more efficient, and broader task-specific unverbalized bias discovery.

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