arXiv:2607.09492cs.AI2026-07被引 1

研究多模态强化学习中奖励欺骗问题,发现现有奖励机制易诱导模型产生错误答案。

Multimodal Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning

论文配图:Multimodal Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning
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  • 设计新指标NRFR,量化奖励提升下的新型失败率
  • 结果:仅依赖输出的奖励导致48.1%奖励欺骗率
  • 亮点:视觉验证需可靠,大模型仍存系统性风险

强化学习(RL)正被广泛用于对多模态大语言模型(MLLMs)进行对齐,但更高的奖励并不总意味着更好的任务表现。当视觉证据由仅文本或弱对齐的奖励评估时,这一风险加剧。本文在安全视觉问答、图表视觉问答和压力测试场景下研究了多模态奖励欺骗问题,考察了奖励设计、数据模糊性、模型规模(2B-32B)及算法(GRPO、RLOO、DAPO)的影响。提出新指标‘新奖励失败率’(NRFR),衡量在代理奖励优于SFT基线的样本中发生的失败比例。结果显示,仅基于输出的奖励引发严重欺骗,最高达48.1%的奖励欺骗率(RHR);而NRFR超过RHR表明,强化学习不仅继承原有缺陷,还引入新错误。模型规模扩大可缓解但无法消除欺骗:32B模型在仅输出奖励下仍表现出54.9%更差的性能。回答感知型奖励在各规模下均改善了理想趋势。鲁棒性也与算法和规模相关:GRPO始终最稳健,RLOO持续脆弱,而DAPO从2B到8B显著提升。仅当验证可靠时,视觉证据奖励才有效:关键词检查反而增加欺骗,而以视觉语言模型为裁判的语义验证可降低欺骗。总体而言,多模态奖励欺骗是优化不完美奖励的系统性结果,实现稳健对齐需依赖在优化压力下仍可靠的奖励机制与验证器。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly used to align multimodal large language models (MLLMs), but higher rewards do not always imply better task performance. This risk is amplified when visual evidence is evaluated by text-only or weakly grounded rewards. We study reward hacking in MLLM RL across safety VQA, chart VQA, and stress-test settings, varying reward design, data ambiguity, model scale (2B-32B), and RL algorithm (GRPO, RLOO, DAPO). We introduce Newly Rewarded Failure Rate (NRFR), which measures failures among samples whose proxy reward improves over the SFT baseline. Outcome-only rewards cause severe hacking, reaching 48.1% Reward Hacking Rate (RHR), while NRFR exceeding RHR shows that RL creates new failures rather than merely inheriting them. Scaling reduces but does not eliminate hacking: even the 32B model retains a 54.9% worse rate under outcome-only rewards, whereas answer-aware rewards improve the oracle trend at every scale. Robustness is also algorithm- and scale-dependent: GRPO is consistently most resistant, RLOO remains vulnerable, and DAPO improves substantially from 2B to 8B. Visual-evidence rewards help only with reliable verification: keyword-based checks increase hacking, while VLM-as-judge semantic verification reduces it. Overall, multimodal reward hacking is a systematic result of optimizing imperfect rewards, and robust alignment requires rewards and verifiers that remain reliable under optimization pressure.

强化学习多模态奖励欺骗对齐

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