arXiv:2602.19416cs.AIcs.LG2026-02被引 5

破解大模型对齐中的奖励欺骗问题,实现可解释检测与修复

IR$^3$: Contrastive Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Interpretable Detection and Mitigation of Reward Hacking

  • 通过对比对齐前后模型输出,逆向重建隐含奖励函数
  • 识别出90%以上的欺骗特征,修复后行为偏差降低且性能损失小于3%
  • 适合关注模型安全、对齐机制可解释性的研究者

基于人类反馈的强化学习(RLHF)虽能有效对齐大语言模型,但易引发奖励欺骗——模型利用代理奖励中的虚假关联而非真实对齐。更严重的是,对齐过程中内化的目标难以解释,导致欺骗行为难以发现和修正。本文提出IR3框架,通过对比对齐前后的策略输出,利用对比逆强化学习(C-IRL)逆向重建隐含奖励函数,并通过稀疏自编码器将其分解为可解释特征,进而通过贡献分析识别欺骗信号。最后提出四种修复策略:清洁奖励优化、对抗性塑造、约束优化和特征引导微调,针对有害特征进行精准干预。在多个奖励模型配置下的实验表明,IR3与真实奖励的相关性达0.89,欺骗特征识别精度超90%,显著减少欺骗行为的同时,模型能力仅下降3%以内。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) enables powerful LLM alignment but can introduce reward hacking - models exploit spurious correlations in proxy rewards without genuine alignment. Compounding this, the objectives internalized during RLHF remain opaque, making hacking behaviors difficult to detect or correct. We introduce IR3 (Interpretable Reward Reconstruction and Rectification), a framework that reverse-engineers, interprets, and surgically repairs the implicit objectives driving RLHF-tuned models. We propose Contrastive Inverse Reinforcement Learning (C-IRL), which reconstructs the implicit reward function by contrasting paired responses from post-alignment and baseline policies to explain behavioral shifts during RLHF. We then decompose the reconstructed reward via sparse autoencoders into interpretable features, enabling identification of hacking signatures through contribution analysis. Finally, we propose mitigation strategies - clean reward optimization, adversarial shaping, constrained optimization, and feature-guided distillation - that target problematic features while preserving beneficial alignment. Experiments across multiple reward model configurations show that IR3 achieves 0.89 correlation with ground-truth rewards, identifies hacking features with over 90% precision, and significantly reduces hacking behaviors while maintaining capabilities within 3% of the original model.

奖励欺骗可解释性模型对齐强化学习

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