arXiv:2604.07667cs.AIcs.MA2026-04被引 4

让AI辩论结果更安全:用概率校准避免错误共识执行

From Debate to Decision: Conformal Social Choice for Safe Multi-Agent Deliberation

  • 用线性意见池聚合不同AI的判断,再用分段协方差预测校准置信度
  • 在8个MMLU-Pro任务上,错误共识拦截率达81.9%(α=0.05)
  • 支持自动执行或人工介入,用户可调安全阈值α,适合高风险决策场景

多智能体辩论提升大模型推理能力,但共识不等于正确。当智能体因社会强化而一致得出错误答案时,基于共识的停止机制会将错误固化并执行,且无法挽回。本文提出Conformal Social Choice,一种后处理决策层,将辩论输出转化为可校准的“行动或升级”决策。异构智能体的口语化概率分布通过线性意见池聚合,并用分段协方差预测校准,生成具有边际覆盖保证的预测集:正确答案包含于其中的概率 ≥1−α,无需假设单个模型已校准。层级动作策略将单元素集合映射为自主执行,多元素集合则触发人工介入。在八项MMLU-Pro领域、三名智能体(Claude Haiku、DeepSeek-R1、Qwen-3 32B)实验中,覆盖率保持在目标值1–2个百分点内。关键发现并非辩论变准确,而是该层使失败可操作:81.9%的错误共识案例在α=0.05时被拦截。因该层拒绝在自信错误时执行,剩余单一预测集准确率高达90.0%–96.8%(最高比共识停止提升22.1个百分点),这是选择效应而非推理增强。安全性代价是自动化减少,但可通过α调节操作点。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multi-agent debate improves LLM reasoning, yet agreement among agents is not evidence of correctness. When agents converge on a wrong answer through social reinforcement, consensus-based stopping commits that error to an automated action with no recourse. We introduce Conformal Social Choice, a post-hoc decision layer that converts debate outputs into calibrated act-versus-escalate decisions. Verbalized probability distributions from heterogeneous agents are aggregated via a linear opinion pool and calibrated with split conformal prediction, yielding prediction sets with a marginal coverage guarantee: the correct answer is included with probability ${\geq}\,1{-}α$, without assumptions on individual model calibration. A hierarchical action policy maps singleton sets to autonomous action and larger sets to human escalation. On eight MMLU-Pro domains with three agents (Claude Haiku, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen-3 32B), coverage stays within 1--2 points of the target. The key finding is not that debate becomes more accurate, but that the conformal layer makes its failures actionable: 81.9% of wrong-consensus cases are intercepted at $α{=}0.05$. Because the layer refuses to act on cases where debate is confidently wrong, the remaining conformal singletons reach 90.0--96.8% accuracy (up to 22.1pp above consensus stopping) -- a selection effect, not a reasoning improvement. This safety comes at the cost of automation, but the operating point is user-adjustable via $α$.

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