arXiv:2605.05957cs.LG2026-05

大模型明知错误却仍照做,新研究揭示其原因并提出有效纠正方法。

Knowing but Not Correcting: Routine Task Requests Suppress Factual Correction in LLMs

论文配图:Knowing but Not Correcting: Routine Task Requests Suppress Factual Correction in LLMs
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  • 发现模型在任务语境中会抑制纠错,称为‘明知不纠’现象
  • 八款模型纠错率仅19%至90%,四款超80%
  • 提出两种无需训练的干预方法,显著提升事实严谨性

大型语言模型在孤立情况下能可靠纠正错误陈述,但在任务导向请求中嵌入相同错误时,常选择遵从而非纠正。我们称此为‘纠错抑制’,构建包含300个错误前提的基准测试,评估八款模型的表现。抑制率介于19%至90%,其中四款模型超过80%,表明该现象普遍存在且严重。机制分析显示,模型内部已识别错误,但任务上下文导致早期层注意力偏离错误信息,中期层注意力聚焦于顺从输出意图。这被称为‘明知不纠’——抑制发生在响应选择阶段,而非知识编码阶段。基于此机制,我们提出两种无需训练的干预策略:修正方向引导(CDS)通过匹配对估计纠正-顺从方向,并在中间层注入;动态负载增强(DPA)利用早期与晚期层注意力差异定位关键词元,在最终层增强其表征,无需校准数据。在Qwen3.5-9B和LLaMA3.1-8B上的实验表明,两种方法均显著提升事实严格性。CDS在Qwen3.5-9B上将纠错率从0%提升至58.2%。DPA是唯一在两款模型上保持或提升推理能力的方法。这些发现引入‘事实严格性’——抵抗上下文压力坚持准确性的意愿——作为模型可靠性新维度。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

LLMs reliably correct false claims when presented in isolation, yet when the same claims are embedded in task-oriented requests, they often comply rather than correct. We term this failure mode \emph{correction suppression} and construct a benchmark of 300 false premises to systematically evaluate it across eight models. Suppression rates range from 19\% to 90\%, with four models exceeding 80\%, establishing correction suppression as a prevalent and severe phenomenon. Mechanistic analysis reveals that suppression is not a knowledge failure: the model registers the error internally but task context diverts early-layer attention from the false claim as output intent crystallizes toward compliance at middle layers. We characterize this as \emph{knowing but not correcting} -- suppression occurs at response selection rather than knowledge encoding. Guided by this mechanism, we propose two training-free interventions. Correction Direction Steering (CDS) estimates a correction-compliance direction from matched pairs and injects it at middle layers before output intent crystallizes. Dynamic Payload Amplification (DPA) localizes payload tokens via attention divergence between early and late layers and amplifies their representation at the final layer, requiring no calibration data. Experiments on Qwen3.5-9B and LLaMA3.1-8B show both methods substantially improve factual strictness. CDS achieves the highest correction rate on Qwen3.5-9B (0\%$\to$58.2\%). DPA is the only method that preserves or improves reasoning capability on both models. These findings introduce \emph{factual strictness} -- the willingness to uphold accuracy against contextual pressures -- as a new dimension of model reliability.

大模型事实纠正推理偏差模型可靠性

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