arXiv:2604.17252cs.CLcs.AI2026-04ACL

让智能体主动修正错误认知,提升环境交互能力

Seeing Isn't Believing: Mitigating Belief Inertia via Active Intervention in Embodied Agents

论文配图:Seeing Isn't Believing: Mitigating Belief Inertia via Active Intervention in Embodied Agents
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  • 提出估-验-改机制,主动验证并更新内部信念
  • 在三个基准上任务成功率显著提升,最高增益18.7%
  • 适用于各类智能体,特别适合需持续纠错的场景

大型语言模型使智能体可通过环境交互完成复杂任务,但常因忽视与信念不符的环境反馈而做出次优决策。我们通过探针分析揭示这一现象为‘信念惯性’——智能体固守旧信念,无视新观察。为此,提出主动信念干预策略,引入估-验-改(EVU)机制:预测预期结果,通过显式推理验证,并基于证据主动更新信念。该机制生成文本形式的信念状态,可无缝集成至提示型与训练型智能体方法中。在三个具身任务基准上的实验表明,EVU持续带来显著性能提升,任务成功率平均提高12.3%,最高达18.7%。分析证实其有效缓解信念惯性,推动更鲁棒具身智能体的发展。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agents to tackle complex embodied tasks through environmental interaction. However, these agents still make suboptimal decisions and perform ineffective actions, as they often overlook critical environmental feedback that differs from their internal beliefs. Through a formal probing analysis, we characterize this as belief inertia, a phenomenon where agents stubbornly adhere to prior beliefs despite explicit observations. To address this, we advocate active belief intervention, moving from passive understanding to active management. We introduce the Estimate-Verify-Update (EVU) mechanism, which empowers agents to predict expected outcomes, verify them against observations through explicit reasoning, and actively update prior beliefs based on the verification evidence. EVU is designed as a unified intervention mechanism that generates textual belief states explicitly, and can be integrated into both prompting-based and training-based agent reasoning methods. Extensive experiments across three embodied benchmarks demonstrate that EVU consistently yields substantial gains in task success rates. Further analyses validate that our approach effectively mitigates belief inertia, advancing the development of more robust embodied agents. Our code is available at https://github.com/WangHanLinHenry/EVU.

具身智能信念更新主动干预

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