arXiv:2604.10189cs.CL2026-04ACL

用自然语言描述模型可信度,提升大模型回答真实性

FAITH: Factuality Alignment through Integrating Trustworthiness and Honestness

  • 用自然语言表达模型的可信度与诚实性,构建知识状态四象限
  • 在4个知识密集型任务上,事实准确率显著提升
  • 适合关注大模型可信度与事实性对齐的研究者

大型语言模型(LLMs)即使具备相关知识,仍可能生成事实错误的内容,严重影响其可靠性。现有方法通过在问答提示中引入不确定性数值评分来缓解问题,但这些数值缺乏语义丰富性,难以让模型充分理解自身的可信度与诚实性,导致事实对齐不足。本文提出FAITH(Factuality Alignment through Integrating Trustworthiness and Honestness),一种后训练的事实对齐框架,将自然语言的不确定性信号与外部知识相结合。具体而言,通过计算模型输出的置信度分数和语义熵,将其映射为描述模型内部知识掌握程度(可信度)和回答行为(诚实性)的自然语言知识状态四象限,并以此增强训练数据。基于此,设计同时考虑正确性和不确定性信号的奖励函数,采用近端策略优化(PPO)算法微调模型。为进一步减少无依据回答,引入检索增强模块,从外部获取相关文本片段,提升内部与外部知识表征的一致性。在四个知识密集型基准测试上的大量实验表明,FAITH显著提升了大模型的事实准确率与真实性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate factually inaccurate content even if they have corresponding knowledge, which critically undermines their reliability. Existing approaches attempt to mitigate this by incorporating uncertainty in QA prompt during training, but these numerical scores lack the semantic richness for LLM to properly understand its internal states of trustworthiness and honestness, leading to insufficient factuality alignment. We introduce FAITH (Factuality Alignment through Integrating Trustworthiness and Honestness), a post-training framework for factuality alignment that integrates natural-language uncertainty signals with external knowledge. Specifically, we augment training datasets by computing confidence scores and semantic entropy from LLM outputs and mapping them into a knowledge state quadrant that describes the model's internal knowledge possession (trustworthiness) and answering behaviors (honestness) in natural language. Based on this enhanced data, we design a reward function that considers both correctness and uncertainty signals, and fine-tune the LLM using the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm. To further mitigate weakly grounded responses, we design a retrieval-augmented module that retrieves relevant external passages, improving the consistency between internal and external knowledge representations. Extensive experiments on four knowledge-intensive benchmarks demonstrate that FAITH enhances the factual accuracy and truthfulness of LLMs.

大模型对齐事实性可信度

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