arXiv:2606.09046cs.LGcs.CL2026-06被引 1

为大模型错误分析设计可信度校准方法,避免误报虚假失败模式。

Decoy-Calibrated Failure Audits for Language Models

  • 用伪造解释对比真实解释,判断错误原因是否可信。
  • 在长链查找任务中确认了模型中途停止的真正失败模式。
  • 适合做模型可靠性审计的研究者和工程师使用。

可靠的审计不仅揭示模型出错频率,还定位错误集中区域。审计者常测试多种解释:长输入、间接问题、干扰信息或其组合。但存在选择偏差风险——观察到的最大效应可能只是多次尝试中的偶然结果。本文提出Janus方法,用于判断一个错误解释是否足够可信以报告。目标不是生成新解释,而是筛选出有效的解释。审计者固定模型、标注数据集和候选解释列表(称作描述符)。Janus通过误差率提升评分,将真实描述符与具有相同频率但随机分配的伪描述符对比。只有在发现数据上胜过伪基准,并在独立保留数据上重复验证的描述符才被确认。在多表查找任务的受控审计中,Janus识别出预设失败模式,确认了长链描述符及其交互作用。大模型常在链式查找中提前终止。在两个公开基准MuSiQue和LongBench v2上,SliceLine基线发现看似高错误区域,但Janus全部未确认。消融实验表明双重保障必要:在LongBench v2上,未校准阈值报告20个描述符,伪基准仅剩1个,保留检查后该描述符提升从0.36降至0.05,最终被排除。这一原则将提出解释与报告解释分离:候选可来自任意来源,但仅通过伪基准检验且在新数据上复现者才能成为审计结论。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Useful audits reveal not only how often a model fails, but also where its failures concentrate. An auditor may test many candidate explanations: long inputs, indirect questions, distracting evidence, or combinations of these factors. The risk is selection. The largest observed effect may reflect a real failure mode, or it may simply be the best result among many tried. We introduce Janus, a procedure for deciding when a proposed error explanation is credible enough to report. The goal is not to generate new explanations, but to decide which ones hold up. The auditor starts with a fixed model, a labeled evaluation set, and a frozen list of candidate explanations, which we call descriptors. Janus scores each descriptor by its error-rate lift, then compares real descriptors with fake ones that have the same frequencies but are randomly assigned to examples. A descriptor is confirmed only if it beats this decoy floor on the data used for discovery and then repeats on separate held-out data. In a controlled audit of multi-table lookup tasks, Janus identifies the planted failure, confirming long-chain descriptors and their interactions. The LLM often stops partway through the lookup chain instead of reaching the final answer. On two public benchmarks, MuSiQue and LongBench v2, the SliceLine baseline flags plausible high-error pockets, but Janus confirms none of them. Ablations show why both safeguards matter. On LongBench v2, an uncalibrated fixed threshold reports 20 descriptors, the decoy floor leaves one, and the holdout check rejects the last one after its lift shrinks from 0.36 to 0.05. The resulting principle separates proposing explanations from reporting them. Candidates may come from any source, but only those that beat decoys and replicate on fresh data become audit findings.

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