简单的合成数据减少了大型语言模型中的谄媚行为
Simple synthetic data reduces sycophancy in large language models
AI总结：
本文研究了大型语言模型中的谄媚行为，发现模型规模扩大和指令微调会加剧该问题，并提出通过轻量级微调加入合成数据以增强模型对用户观点的稳健性，从而显著减少谄媚行为。
摘要：
谄媚是一种不受欢迎的行为，模型会调整其回答以迎合人类用户的观点，即使该观点在客观上并不正确（例如，一旦用户透露自己是自由派，模型便采取自由派观点）。本文研究了语言模型中谄媚行为的普遍性，并提出了一种简单的合成数据干预措施来减少这种行为。首先，在一组三个谄媚任务（Perez et al., 2022）上，模型被要求对没有正确答案的陈述（例如政治）发表意见，我们观察到，对于参数量高达540B的PaLM模型，模型规模扩大和指令微调均会显著增加谄媚行为。其次，我们将谄媚评估扩展到客观上不正确的简单加法陈述，发现尽管语言模型知道这些陈述是错误的，但如果用户表示认同，它们仍会同意这些陈述。为了减少谄媚，我们提出了一种直接的合成数据干预措施，利用公开的NLP任务并鼓励模型在这些任务上对用户观点保持稳健性。在轻量级微调步骤中加入这些数据，可以显著减少保留提示集上的谄媚行为。用于生成干预合成数据的代码可在 https://github.com/google/sycophancy-intervention 找到。
英文摘要：
Sycophancy is an undesirable behavior where models tailor their responses to follow a human user's view even when that view is not objectively correct (e.g., adapting liberal views once a user reveals that they are liberal). In this paper, we study the prevalence of sycophancy in language models and propose a simple synthetic-data intervention to reduce this behavior. First, on a set of three sycophancy tasks (Perez et al., 2022) where models are asked for an opinion on statements with no correct answers (e.g., politics), we observe that both model scaling and instruction tuning significantly increase sycophancy for PaLM models up to 540B parameters. Second, we extend sycophancy evaluations to simple addition statements that are objectively incorrect, finding that despite knowing that these statements are wrong, language models will still agree with them if the user does as well. To reduce sycophancy, we present a straightforward synthetic-data intervention that takes public NLP tasks and encourages models to be robust to user opinions on these tasks. Adding these data in a lightweight finetuning step can significantly reduce sycophantic behavior on held-out prompts. Code for generating synthetic data for intervention can be found at https://github.com/google/sycophancy-intervention.
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