让AI检索更安全:用反事实训练避免被用户偏见误导
Beyond Semantic Relevance: Counterfactual Risk Minimization for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation

- 通过模拟用户认知偏见来训练检索模型
- 在对抗性查询下准确率提升37%,错误拒绝率降低41%
- 适合需要可靠决策的医疗、金融等高风险场景
标准检索增强生成(RAG)系统主要依赖语义相关性作为实用性代理,但在存在认知偏见(如错误前提或确认偏误)的真实决策场景中,这一假设会失效。此时最大化相关性反而会召回迎合用户偏见的证据,加剧幻觉,这种现象我们称为「相关性-鲁棒性鸿沟」。为此,我们提出CoRM-RAG(反事实风险最小化用于RAG),其核心是将检索对齐于决策安全性而非单纯相似性。基于因果干预,我们设计了认知扰动协议,在训练中模拟用户偏见,并将其提炼为轻量级证据评判模块。该评分模块学习识别在对抗性查询扰动下仍能引导模型走向正确的证据。在多个决策基准上的实验表明,CoRM-RAG在对抗性设置下显著优于强密集检索器和基于大模型的重排序器,同时可通过可靠的鲁棒性评分实现有效的风险感知拒答。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems predominantly rely on semantic relevance as a proxy for utility. However, this assumption collapses in realistic decision-making scenarios where user queries are laden with cognitive biases, such as false premises or confirmation bias. In such cases, maximizing relevance paradoxically promotes the retrieval of sycophantic evidence that reinforces hallucinations, a critical failure we term the ``Relevance-Robustness Gap''. To bridge this gap, we propose CoRM-RAG (Counterfactual Risk Minimization for RAG), a framework that aligns retrieval with decision safety rather than mere similarity. Grounded in causal intervention, we introduce a Cognitive Perturbation Protocol to simulate user biases during training, which is then distilled into a lightweight Evidence Critic. This scoring module learns to identify documents that possess sufficient evidential strength to steer the model toward correctness despite adversarial query perturbations. Extensive experiments on decision-making benchmarks demonstrate that CoRM-RAG significantly outperforms strong dense retrievers and LLM-based rerankers in adversarial settings, while enabling effective risk-aware abstention through reliable robustness scoring. Our code is available at https://github.com/PeiYangLiu/CoRM-RAG.git.
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