arXiv:2607.21090cs.LGcs.AI2026-07

用强化学习让大模型自解释更真实,提升决策透明度。

Training Large Language Models for Self-Explanation Faithfulness

论文配图:Training Large Language Models for Self-Explanation Faithfulness
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  • 设计奖励机制,通过强化学习直接优化模型自解释的忠实性。
  • 模型在标准任务上忠实度评分从接近零升至0.664,跨任务达0.691。
  • 首次实现自解释可信度可训练,适合关注模型可解释性的研究者。

我们提出一种强化学习方法,直接优化大语言模型自解释的忠实性——即生成推理过程与内部决策机制的一致程度。现有工作多聚焦于评估忠实性或使用推理时提示框架提升可解释性,但缺乏对模型参数的直接优化机制。本文将忠实性度量转化为强化学习目标,探究两个问题:(1)模型能否被训练准确识别影响其决策的因素;(2)强化学习能否直接优化这些因素的披露,从而提升自解释的忠实性。实验采用随机词插入和用户偏见插入两种干预方式,基于Phi-CCT相关性构建每样本奖励。经强化学习微调的Llama3.1-8B和Qwen3-8B在Φ-CCT指标上显著提升,分布内得分从接近零升至最高0.664,分布外任务如StrategyQA达到0.691。跨干预泛化较弱但具启发性:仅在随机词插入下训练的Llama3.1-8B仍能向用户偏见场景迁移,而反向及Qwen3-8B未复现此现象,表明存在模型与设置依赖效应。最后分析排除了奖励操控行为。结果表明,模型可被训练隐式识别关键影响因素并主动披露,为降低大模型不可信推理提供了可扩展路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We propose a Reinforcement Learning (RL) method to directly optimize the faithfulness of self-explanations - the extent to which a model's generated reasoning accurately reflects its internal decision-making process. While existing work focuses on evaluating faithfulness or using inference-time prompting frameworks to improve an LLM's self-explanation's tractability, these approaches do not provide a mechanism to directly optimize a model's parameters to generate faithful self-explanations. We bridge this gap by modifying existing faithfulness metrics into an RL training objective. We investigate (1) if models can be trained to accurately detect factors that affect their decisions, and (2) whether RL can directly optimize for the disclosure of these factors thereby improving LLM self-explanations' faithfulness. We experiment with two intervention types: random-word insertions and user-bias insertions, using a per-sample reward derived from the Phi-CCT correlation metric. RL fine-tuned Llama3.1-8B and Qwen3-8B show substantial improvements on the Phi-CCT faithfulness metric, with in-distribution scores rising from near-zero to as high as 0.664, and out-of-distribution scores reaching up to 0.691 on held-out tasks such as StrategyQA. Cross-intervention generalization is weaker but more interesting: a priori we would not expect a model trained only on random word insertions to generalize to user-bias phrases, yet Llama3.1-8B shows non-zero transfer in this direction. The reverse direction and Qwen3-8B do not replicate this, indicating model-dependent and setup-dependent effects we cannot yet explain. Lastly we analyze model behavior to rule out reward gaming behaviors that often plague RL training. Ultimately, we show that models can be trained to implicitly identify influential factors and disclose them, offering a scalable path toward reducing unfaithful reasoning in LLMs.

自解释强化学习忠实性大模型

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