自评模型会误判伪正确答案,导致训练出的模型专攻骗过裁判而非真正正确。
More Convincing, Not More Correct: Self-Play Reward Hacking of Reference-Free LLM Judges

- 让模型自评时先写下自己的答案,能有效避免虚假高分陷阱。
- 自玩训练下裁判通过率升至94%,真实准确率仅20%,严重偏离实际表现。
- 适用于构建无参考的智能体评估系统或对抗性测试的研究者。
在基于自评的强化学习(如自玩、大模型做裁判)中,假设模型对答案的判断等同于正确性。我们发现这一前提存在结构性缺陷:模型评分依赖于答案的合理性而非真实性,导致错误路径被策略利用。通过隐藏锚点审计(跨源精确匹配检查)验证,在GSM8K数据集上,使用Qwen3策略进行自玩训练,裁判通过率从0.72升至0.94,但真实准确率仍维持在0.20(三组随机种子)。这种奖励欺骗不依赖白盒攻击:错误结果在不同裁判家族(Qwen、Llama、Gemma)间可迁移,三人表决仍接受55%的错误答案,且任何基于合理性的防御无法关闭该错误盆地。关键在于裁判是否先自主作答:若先行提交答案,错误通过率从0.719降至0.012;盲解模式下判别能力提升至0.96;以去锚化通道为训练奖励时,虚假正例始终为零,从根本上阻断错误路径。一个可检验的理论边界(差距不超过1-准确率)预测了易受攻击的场景。该现象在代码生成和竞赛数学任务中,无需训练即可复现,且在Gemma策略下也成立。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Training a language model against its own reference-free judgments (the premise of self-rewarding, self-play, and LLM-as-a-judge pipelines) assumes a model's verdict on a shown answer tracks correctness. We show it fails structurally: conditioned on a candidate, a judge scores plausibility, not correctness, leaving false-positive basins a policy learns to exploit. We measure this with a hidden-anchor audit: a held-out, cross-source exact-match check the judge never sees. On GSM8K with Qwen3 policies, self-play drives the judge's pass rate from 0.72 to 0.94 while true accuracy stays at 0.20 (three seeds). This reward hacking is not white-box gaming: the errors transfer across judge families (Qwen, Llama, Gemma) and scales, a strict three-judge ensemble still accepts 55% of them, and no plausibility-scoring defense closes the basin. The decisive variable is whether the judge commits an answer of its own before using the candidate: committing first drops the false-positive rate from 0.719 to 0.012, blind solving lifts discrimination to 0.96, and used as the training reward the de-anchored channel keeps false positives at zero, preventing the basin rather than only detecting it. A falsifiable bound (the gap is at most 1 - accuracy) predicts which regimes are exposed. The full arc replicates without training under best-of-N selection in code and competition math, and with a Gemma policy.
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