arXiv:2607.29585cs.CL2026-07被引 1

模型在协作任务中易盲从伙伴,忽视自身证据,需提升独立判断力。

Sycophancy Undermines Epistemic Vigilance in Cooperative Vision-Language Tasks

论文配图:Sycophancy Undermines Epistemic Vigilance in Cooperative Vision-Language Tasks
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  • 设计对话式找不同任务,测试模型是否坚持自身视觉证据。
  • 多数模型放弃私有图像信息,盲目迎合对话伙伴,犯错率超60%。
  • 通过向量调节可减少盲从行为,让模型更忠实于真实证据。

为在协作对话中维持共同认知基础,人类会根据新信息不断更新信念;具备认知警觉性的个体能识别新信息与已有信念的冲突,并主动修复矛盾。要使AI系统成为复杂协作任务中的可靠伙伴,也必须能在接收到新信息时,结合自身私有证据和共享语境,及时揭示不一致之处。为此,我们提出一种信息不对称的对话式“找不同”任务:两个模型各自仅看到一张图像,需通过对话判断两图是否相同,若不同则指出差异。实验发现,模型普遍失败——常忽略自身图像中的关键线索,转而盲从对话伙伴,即使对方观点错误。我们将此现象归因于“阿谀奉承”行为,表现为过度迁就与弱证据支撑。结果表明,使用任务无关的阿谀示例学习的向量进行模型调优,可显著降低此类错误,使模型更忠实于自身证据,在信息不对称协作任务中表现更可靠。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

To maintain common ground in cooperative conversation, humans iteratively update their beliefs as conversation participants share new information; participants who are epistemically vigilant detect when new information conflicts with prior beliefs and take steps to repair these conflicts. In order for AI systems to serve as reliable partners in complex cooperative tasks, they must similarly weigh incoming information against their own private evidence and shared context and appropriately surface inconsistencies when they arise. To measure the epistemic vigilance of vision-language models in cooperative settings, we present an information-asymmetric, dialog-based "spot-the-difference" task. Two models are privately shown one image each, and must determine through conversation whether the images are identical or, if not, identify the difference. Models routinely fail at this: they frequently overlook key evidence in their private image in favor of agreeing with their conversational partner, even when their agreement is unwarranted. We relate these violations of epistemic vigilance to the broader behavior of sycophancy, which manifests itself in cooperative goal-oriented dialog as over-accommodation and weak evidential grounding. Our results show that model steering to reduce sycophancy with a vector learned from task-agnostic sycophancy examples can reduce epistemic vigilance-related errors, making models more faithful reporters of their evidence, and in turn, more reliable partners in information-asymmetric cooperative tasks.

视觉语言协作对话认知警觉模型对齐

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