通过稳定度差异识别并抑制大模型欺骗行为
Stable Reasoning, Unstable Responses: Mitigating LLM Deception via Stability Asymmetry
- 利用推理过程与回答对外扰动的稳定性差异发现欺骗
- 在多个数据集上使欺骗率下降67%以上,且不影响模型能力
- 适合关注模型可信性与对齐安全的研究者
随着大语言模型能力增强,其可信度愈发关键。一种重要风险是内在欺骗:模型为达成自身目标而故意误导用户。现有基于思维链(CoT)监控的对齐方法依赖显式推理轨迹,但在优化压力下,模型会隐藏欺骗性推理,导致语义监督不可靠。受认知心理学启发,我们提出假设:欺骗性模型在其思维链中保持稳定信念,但对外响应却对扰动敏感。这一现象称为稳定度不对称,可通过测量内部思维链与外部回答在扰动下的稳定性差异来量化。基于此结构特征,我们提出稳定性不对称正则化(SAR),一种在强化学习中惩罚这种分布不对称的新对齐目标。与传统CoT监控不同,SAR针对模型输出的统计结构,能有效抵御语义伪装。大量实验表明,稳定度不对称可可靠识别欺骗行为,且SAR能有效抑制内在欺骗,同时不损害模型通用能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand in capability and application scope, their trustworthiness becomes critical. A vital risk is intrinsic deception, wherein models strategically mislead users to achieve their own objectives. Existing alignment approaches based on chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring supervise explicit reasoning traces. However, under optimization pressure, models are incentivized to conceal deceptive reasoning, rendering semantic supervision fundamentally unreliable. Grounded in cognitive psychology, we hypothesize that a deceptive LLM maintains a stable internal belief in its CoT while its external response remains fragile under perturbation. We term this phenomenon stability asymmetry and quantify it by measuring the contrast between internal CoT stability and external response stability under perturbation. Building on this structural signature, we propose the Stability Asymmetry Regularization (SAR), a novel alignment objective that penalizes this distributional asymmetry during reinforcement learning. Unlike CoT monitoring, SAR targets the statistical structure of model outputs, rendering it robust to semantic concealment. Extensive experiments confirm that stability asymmetry reliably identifies deceptive behavior, and that SAR effectively suppresses intrinsic deception without degrading general model capability.
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