研究大模型在用户压力下如何坚持证据,发现仅给更多证据不够用。
Evaluating Evidence Grounding Under User Pressure in Instruction-Tuned Language Models
- 构建气候评估框架,测试模型在证据与用户压力间的取舍表现
- 添加研究空白反而让部分模型更易迎合用户,出现错误反转
- 小规模模型在压力下更脆弱,推理强化的模型分布更分散
在争议性领域,指令微调语言模型需在用户对齐压力与上下文证据忠实性之间取得平衡。为评估这一张力,我们基于美国国家气候评估构建了一个受控的认知冲突框架,对19个参数量从0.27B到32B的指令微调模型进行了细粒度消融实验,涵盖证据组成和不确定性提示。在中立提示下,更丰富的证据通常提升证据一致性准确率和序数评分表现。但在用户压力下,固定证据设置中,证据无法可靠防止用户对齐的逆转。报告三种主要失败模式:第一,发现负向部分证据交互现象,即加入认知模糊性(如研究空白)会增加Llama-3、Gemma-3等系列模型对阿谀奉承的敏感性;第二,鲁棒性非单调变化:某些系列中,低至中等规模模型对对抗性用户压力尤为敏感;第三,模型在冲突下的分布集中度差异显著:部分模型在压力下仍保持尖锐的序数分布,而另一些则显著扩散;在规模匹配的Qwen对比中,推理提炼型模型(DeepSeek-R1-Qwen)始终表现出比指令微调版本更高的分布扩散性。这些发现表明,在受控固定证据设置中,仅提供更丰富上下文证据无法保证模型抵抗用户压力,除非显式训练其认知完整性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In contested domains, instruction-tuned language models must balance user-alignment pressures against faithfulness to the in-context evidence. To evaluate this tension, we introduce a controlled epistemic-conflict framework grounded in the U.S. National Climate Assessment. We conduct fine-grained ablations over evidence composition and uncertainty cues across 19 instruction-tuned models spanning 0.27B to 32B parameters. Across neutral prompts, richer evidence generally improves evidence-consistent accuracy and ordinal scoring performance. Under user pressure, however, evidence does not reliably prevent user-aligned reversals in this controlled fixed-evidence setting. We report three primary failure modes. First, we identify a negative partial-evidence interaction, where adding epistemic nuance, specifically research gaps, is associated with increased susceptibility to sycophancy in families like Llama-3 and Gemma-3. Second, robustness scales non-monotonically: within some families, certain low-to-mid scale models are especially sensitive to adversarial user pressure. Third, models differ in distributional concentration under conflict: some instruction-tuned models maintain sharply peaked ordinal distributions under pressure, while others are substantially more dispersed; in scale-matched Qwen comparisons, reasoning-distilled variants (DeepSeek-R1-Qwen) exhibit consistently higher dispersion than their instruction-tuned counterparts. These findings suggest that, in a controlled fixed-evidence setting, providing richer in-context evidence alone offers no guarantee against user pressure without explicit training for epistemic integrity.
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