arXiv:2608.26159cs.CLcs.AI2026-08

发现大模型能识别自己生成的内容,可能影响安全评估的公正性。

Self-Generated Text Recognition: Quality Heuristics, Cross-Task Transfer, and Downstream Bias in LLM Evaluation

论文配图:Self-Generated Text Recognition: Quality Heuristics, Cross-Task Transfer, and Downstream Bias in LLM Evaluation
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  • 通过多种测试格式对比,发现模型识别自产文本的能力受呈现方式影响显著。
  • 改进模型识别能力后,其在评估任务中更倾向选择自己生成的内容。
  • 研究提示应警惕模型自识别带来的评估偏差,尤其在关键系统中。

自我生成文本识别(SGTR)——即大模型识别自身输出的能力——对依赖大模型作为评估者或监控者的AI安全机制构成风险:模型可能识别其他同源模型的输出并做出偏见判断甚至串通。先前研究对此能力存在矛盾结论。本文通过识别关键实验设计差异(称作‘操作化’)解释分歧。在6种呈现方式和4种任务领域下评估13至21个模型,发现准确率显著受评估形式(成对比较与单独评估)、对话格式(用户标签或助手标签)及生成任务领域(如编程与摘要)影响。验证了质量启发式(模型倾向于将高质量文本归为自己所写)是主要干扰因素。此外,针对某一操作化进行监督微调提升的SGTR能力可泛化到其他场景,并增强模型在AlpacaEval框架中作为评判者时对自己输出的偏好。结果表明,尽管存在干扰,部分模型具备实际的SGTR能力,该能力应在安全关键应用的设计中被监测与考虑。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Self-Generated Text Recognition (SGTR)--the ability of an LLM to identify its own outputs--poses risks to AI safeguards that rely on LLMs as evaluators or monitors: an LLM may recognize outputs from other copies of the same model and make biased judgments or collude outright. Prior work has drawn conflicting conclusions about whether current models possess significant SGTR capabilities. We explain these disagreements by identifying key experimental design choices--which we term operationalizations--that drive divergent results. Evaluating 13-21 models across six presentation operationalizations and four task-domain operationalizations, we find that accuracy varies substantially with evaluation format (pairwise vs individual assessments of text), conversation format (presenting candidate text in user tags vs assistant tags), and the domain of the task used to generate candidate text (e.g., coding vs summarization). We corroborate previous observations that a quality heuristic--models attributing authorship to text they perceive as higher quality--is a dominant confound. We also find that improving a model's SGTR performance via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on one operationalization can generalize to others, and can increase the model's preference for its own outputs when it acts as a judge in the AlpacaEval framework. Our results suggest that, despite confounds, some models possess practical SGTR capabilities, and that SGTR should be monitored and considered in the design of safety-critical AI applications.

模型评估安全风险自识别偏见

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