为大模型智能体设计了基于交互轨迹的不确定性评估方法。
Beyond Single-Turn Confidence: Trajectory-Adapted Uncertainty Quantification for LLM Agents

- 用多轮交互轨迹替代单次输出,评估模型不确定性。
- 自评分数在多数场景下表现最佳,黑盒一致性方法效果最强。
- 需关注聚合方式与计算成本,避免单次生成评估的误判。
语言模型的不确定性量化(UQ)方法通常在单轮输出上评估,即对单一生成答案赋予不确定性。然而对于大模型智能体,其观测单位是多轮交互轨迹——模型可提出澄清问题、调用工具、更新状态并做出中间决策,这些错误会累积影响最终结果。本文研究三种常见的单轮UQ方法在该场景下的适用性:基于动作词元概率的白盒评分器、基于重采样轨迹的黑盒一致性评分器,以及基于模型自我评估的反思式评分器。在五个大模型和来自BFCL-v4与τ²-bench的四个多轮工具使用数据集上进行评估。结果显示,迁移效果不均衡:词元概率评分高度依赖跨轮次聚合方式;反思评分在多数设置中提供最强的低成本基线;黑盒自一致性方法整体表现最优,其中轨迹等价性和动作集一致性变体表现最佳。结果表明,面向单次生成设计的UQ方法需在轨迹层面重新验证,尤其应关注一致性度量、聚合策略与计算预算。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods for language models are typically evaluated on single-turn outputs, where uncertainty is attached to one generated answer. For LLM agents, however, the unit of observation is an interactive trajectory, where the model can ask clarifying questions, call tools, update state, and make intermediate decisions whose errors propagate to the final outcome. We study whether three common families of single-turn UQ methods transfer to this setting. Across five LLMs and four multi-turn tool-use datasets from BFCL-v4 and $τ^2$-bench, we evaluate white-box scorers based on action-token probabilities, black-box consistency scorers based on resampled trajectories, and reflexive scorers based on model self-assessment of the trajectory. We find that transfer is often useful but uneven. Token-probability scores are highly sensitive to the choice of aggregator used across turns, reflexive scores provide the strongest low-cost baseline in most evaluated settings, and black-box self-consistency is often the strongest UQ family, with trajectory-equivalence and action-set consistency typically ranking highest among its variants. These results suggest that UQ methods developed for single generations should be revalidated at the trajectory level, with careful attention to the consistency measurement, aggregator choice, and computational budget.
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