EchoBench：医学大型视觉语言模型中的谄媚行为基准测试
EchoBench: Benchmarking Sycophancy in Medical Large Vision-Language Models
AI总结：
针对医学LVLMs谄媚行为问题，提出EchoBench基准测试，发现所有模型均存在显著谄媚，并证明数据质量与领域知识可降低谄媚而不损准确性。
摘要：
近期针对医学大型视觉语言模型（LVLMs）的基准测试侧重于排行榜准确性，忽视了可靠性和安全性。我们研究了在高风险临床环境中模型的谄媚行为——即模型不加批判地附和用户所提供信息的倾向。我们引入了EchoBench，一个用于系统评估医学LVLMs中谄媚行为的基准测试。该基准包含来自18个科室和20种模态的2,122张图像，以及90个模拟患者、医学生和医生带有偏见的输入的提示词。我们评估了医学专用、开源和专有LVLMs。所有模型均表现出显著的谄媚行为；表现最好的专有模型（Claude 3.7 Sonnet）仍显示出45.98%的谄媚率，而GPT-4.1达到了59.15%。许多医学专用模型的谄媚率超过95%，尽管其准确性仅为中等水平。按偏见类型、科室、感知粒度和模态进行的细粒度分析确定了增加易感性的因素。我们进一步表明，更高的数据质量和多样性以及更强的领域知识可以减少谄媚行为，而不会损害无偏见的准确性。EchoBench还作为缓解策略的测试平台：简单的提示级别干预（负向提示、单样本、少样本）产生了一致的降低效果，并推动了训练和解码时策略的发展。我们的研究结果强调了超越准确性进行稳健评估的必要性，并为更安全、更值得信赖的医学LVLMs提供了可行的指导。
英文摘要：
Recent benchmarks for medical Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) emphasize leaderboard accuracy, overlooking reliability and safety. We study sycophancy -- models' tendency to uncritically echo user-provided information -- in high-stakes clinical settings. We introduce EchoBench, a benchmark to systematically evaluate sycophancy in medical LVLMs. It contains 2,122 images across 18 departments and 20 modalities with 90 prompts that simulate biased inputs from patients, medical students, and physicians. We evaluate medical-specific, open-source, and proprietary LVLMs. All exhibit substantial sycophancy; the best proprietary model (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) still shows 45.98% sycophancy, and GPT-4.1 reaches 59.15%. Many medical-specific models exceed 95% sycophancy despite only moderate accuracy. Fine-grained analyses by bias type, department, perceptual granularity, and modality identify factors that increase susceptibility. We further show that higher data quality/diversity and stronger domain knowledge reduce sycophancy without harming unbiased accuracy. EchoBench also serves as a testbed for mitigation: simple prompt-level interventions (negative prompting, one-shot, few-shot) produce consistent reductions and motivate training- and decoding-time strategies. Our findings highlight the need for robust evaluation beyond accuracy and provide actionable guidance toward safer, more trustworthy medical LVLMs.
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