arXiv:2608.25977cs.CL2026-08

量化让大模型性格变味:层间差异影响人格表现。

When Personality Meets Quantization: A Layer-wise MBTI Analysis of Quantized LLMs

论文配图:When Personality Meets Quantization: A Layer-wise MBTI Analysis of Quantized LLMs
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  • 用MBTI分析量化后大模型各层性格演化,发现性格是动态生成的。
  • 4比特保持整体性格,2比特破坏细节一致性与跨精度一致。
  • 推理阶段的解码会改变性格,对齐性格的提示能提升稳定性。

人格在大语言模型中日益重要,影响用户信任、参与度与情感体验。尽管MBTI已成为评估模型人格的常用框架,现有研究多聚焦全精度模型且仅分析最终输出,忽视了广泛部署的低内存需求量化模型的人格特性。本文系统分析开源大模型在多种精度下的人格表现,涵盖主流4比特方法(GPTQ、AWQ)与极端2比特设置(AQLM变体)。除输出层面评估外,还通过选项级熵与置信差动态分析人格在各层的涌现过程,并提出不确定性增强层解码(UALD)以研究推理时解码引发的性格漂移。结果揭示:模型人格并非静态属性,而是受量化、提示与解码策略影响的分层决策过程。具体发现:(1) 不同模型家族与精度下,ENFJ始终占主导;(2) 4比特量化基本保留粗粒度人格结构,而2比特量化破坏细粒度提示一致性与跨精度一致性;(3) 人格判断在高层层出现,早期层存在显著模糊性;(4) 推理解码可改变人格,而人格对齐的条件提示能提升鲁棒性。这些发现为量化模型的行为可靠性提供新视角,强调在人格敏感型聊天机器人应用中需关注内部动态与推理策略。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Personality is increasingly important in large language models (LLMs), as it shapes users' trust, engagement, and emotional experiences. While the Myers--Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has emerged as a common framework for assessing LLMs' personality, existing studies focus primarily on full-precision models and evaluate only final outputs. They overlook the widespread deployment of quantized LLMs requiring low memory footprints, whose personality traits remain underexplored. In this work, we present a systematic MBTI analysis of open-source LLMs across multiple precisions, including mainstream 4-bit methods (GPTQ, AWQ) and extreme 2-bit settings (AQLM variants). Beyond output-level evaluation, we examine how personality emerges across layers through option-level entropy and confidence-gap dynamics, and introduce Uncertainty-Amplified Layer Decoding (UALD) to study decoding-induced personality drift at inference time. Our results reveal a key insight: LLMs' personality is not a static property, but an emergent, layer-dependent decision process sensitive to quantization, prompting, and decoding. Specifically, we find that (1) ENFJ remains dominant across model families and precisions; (2) 4-bit quantization largely preserves coarse personality structure, while 2-bit quantization disrupts fine-grained prompt consistency and cross-precision agreement; (3) personality decisions emerges in upper layers, following substantial ambiguity in early layers; and (4) inference decoding can shift personality, while personality-aligned conditioning improves robustness. These findings provide a new perspective on the behavioral reliability of quantized LLMs and highlight the importance of considering internal dynamics and inference strategies in personality-sensitive chatbot applications.

大模型人格量化分析推理机制行为可靠性

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