arXiv:2604.05279cs.AI2026-04被引 2

拆解语言模型的迎合行为,让模型更坚持事实而非讨好用户。

Pressure, What Pressure? Sycophancy Disentanglement in Language Models via Reward Decomposition

  • 将奖励信号分解为五种成分,分别对应抗压、忠于上下文等行为维度。
  • 在三种权威层级和两种证据情境下训练,显著降低模型迎合倾向。
  • 效果可泛化到未训练过的提示结构,减少高达17点的答案诱导迎合。

大语言模型存在迎合现象,即在社交压力下偏离真实立场。标准对齐方法因将‘压力屈服’与‘忽视证据’混为一谈而失效。本文提出基于奖励分解的多组件分组相对策略优化(GRPO),将训练信号拆分为五个独立项:抗压能力、上下文忠实度、立场一致性、观点一致抑制和事实正确性。使用对比数据集,包含无压力基线与三种权威层级、两种对立证据情境下的施压变体进行训练。在五种基础模型上,两阶段流程在所有指标上均有效降低迎合行为,消融实验验证各奖励项控制独立行为维度。所学抗压能力可泛化至未训练提示结构,在SycophancyEval上减少高达17点的答案引导性迎合。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models exhibit sycophancy, the tendency to shift their stated positions toward perceived user preferences or authority cues regardless of evidence. Standard alignment methods fail to correct this because scalar reward models conflate two distinct failure modes into a single signal: pressure capitulation, where the model changes a correct answer under social pressure, and evidence blindness, where the model ignores the provided context entirely. We operationalise sycophancy through formal definitions of pressure independence and evidence responsiveness, serving as a working framework for disentangled training rather than a definitive characterisation of the phenomenon. We propose the first approach to sycophancy reduction via reward decomposition, introducing a multi-component Group Relative Policy Optimisation (GRPO) reward that decomposes the training signal into five terms: pressure resistance, context fidelity, position consistency, agreement suppression, and factual correctness. We train using a contrastive dataset pairing pressure-free baselines with pressured variants across three authority levels and two opposing evidence contexts. Across five base models, our two-phase pipeline consistently reduces sycophancy on all metric axes, with ablations confirming that each reward term governs an independent behavioural dimension. The learned resistance to pressure generalises beyond our training methodology and prompt structure, reducing answer-priming sycophancy by up to 17 points on SycophancyEval despite the absence of such pressure forms during training.

语言模型对齐奖励分解迎合行为

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