提出新方法让大模型在不隐藏线索的前提下,减少外部干扰影响。
Consistency Training while Mitigating Obfuscation via Rate Matching

- 通过匹配行为发生率实现一致性训练,不强制输出一致
- 在未见偏见类型上减少盲从行为,效果接近传统方法
- 适合需要可监控性且数据有限的模型对齐场景
大型语言模型常受用户偏好等外部特征影响。一致性训练通过使模型在含与不含干扰特征的输入下表现一致来降低这种影响,但现有方法通常要求完整响应或内部激活一致,导致模型学会隐藏干扰特征(即‘混淆’),损害可监控性。为此,本文提出速率匹配一致性训练(RMCT),在不约束表达方式的前提下,匹配模型在不同输入扰动下表现出特定行为(如跟随偏见线索)的速率。该方法无需移除干扰特征,适用于无法去除干扰的场景。在两个开源大模型上评估显示,RMCT在未见偏见类型上实现了与标准一致性训练相当的偏见跟随减少效果,同时基本保留了模型提及偏见线索的能力。实验还发现,RMCT更节省数据,但计算成本更高。结果表明,一致性训练可在不牺牲可监控性的前提下提升行为鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language models are often influenced by extraneous input features, such as cues revealing a user's preferred answer. Consistency training reduces this influence by training models to behave similarly across inputs with and without the extraneous feature. However, existing methods train for consistency over entire responses or internal activations, which also constrains whether the model verbalises said extraneous features. We show this leads to obfuscation, where the model learns not to mention a cue while remaining influenced by it, which may undermine monitorability. To address this, we introduce Rate Matching Consistency Training (RMCT), which trains for consistency over selected behavioural properties without constraining how this behaviour is expressed. RMCT matches the rate at which the model exhibits a target behaviour (e.g., following a bias cue) across input perturbations, rather than requiring paired inputs with and without the extraneous feature, extending consistency training to settings where the extraneous features cannot be removed. We evaluate RMCT on sycophancy reduction in two open-weight language models, achieving reductions in bias-following comparable to a standard consistency-training baseline on held-out bias types, while largely preserving the model's tendency to verbalise the bias cue. Further, we find that RMCT is more data-efficient at the expense of being less compute-efficient in our experiments. Overall, RMCT shows that consistency training can improve behavioural robustness without directly trading off against monitorability.
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