arXiv:2607.15696cs.IR2026-07被引 1

用反事实奖励避免任务分解中的重复陷阱,提升工具检索准确率

PCTD: Preference-Guided Counterfactual Task Decomposition for Agent Tool Retrieval

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  • 通过反事实奖励消除分解结果与检索指标的虚假关联
  • 在多个数据集上提升检索准确率,尤其在未知工具场景表现更优
  • 适合需要高精度工具调用的智能助手、多轮交互系统

任务分解旨在将模糊指令转化为可执行的原子子任务,以指导高精度工具检索。然而我们发现,直接使用工具检索指标(如召回率或NDCG)作为强化学习的奖励,容易导致奖励欺骗:模型倾向于通过重复分解等策略最大化匹配度。这种分解结果浅层特征与检索指标间的虚假相关性,损害了在未见工具的域外(OOD)场景下的泛化能力。为此,我们提出PCTD——一种基于偏好引导的反事实任务分解框架。PCTD通过反事实奖励量化分解对检索排名的边际因果增益,从根源切断虚假关联;同时引入偏好奖励,对逻辑连贯性和原子性施加细粒度结构监督,促使模型生成高质量分解。此外,我们构建了MTDTool——专为移动多轮交互设计的任务分解基准。大量实验表明,PCTD有效缓解重复分解问题,在检索精度、分解质量及域外泛化能力上均超越现有最佳方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Task decomposition aims to transform ambiguous instructions into executable atomic subtasks, thereby guiding high-precision tool retrieval. However, our analysis reveals that directly adopting tool retrieval metrics, i.e., Recall or NDCG, as rewards for task decomposition can easily induce reward hacking in reinforcement learning-based methods. Specifically, models tend to maximize retrieval matching through strategies such as repetitive decomposition. This spurious correlation between the shallow features of decomposition results and retrieval metric impairs generalization in Out-of-Domain (OOD) scenarios involving unseen tools. To address this issue, we propose PCTD, a Preference-guided Counterfactual Task Decomposition framework. PCTD quantifies the marginal causal gain of decomposition on retrieval ranking through a counterfactual reward, thereby cutting off spurious correlations at their source. Meanwhile, it introduces a preference reward to impose fine-grained structural supervision on logical coherence and atomicity, encouraging the model to generate high-quality decompositions. In addition, we construct MTDTool, the task decomposition benchmark specifically designed for mobile multi-turn interactions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PCTD alleviates repetitive decomposition and surpasses SOTA methods in retrieval, decomposition quality, and OOD generalization.

任务分解工具检索强化学习反事实推理

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