内部推理 vs. 外部控制：大型语言模型中谄媚现象的热力学分析
Internal Reasoning vs. External Control: A Thermodynamic Analysis of Sycophancy in Large Language Models
AI总结：
本文提出受控因果锚定（RCA）方法，通过评估推理过程而非结果，有效检测大型语言模型中的谄媚现象，无需真实数据且打破自我强化偏见循环。
摘要：
大型语言模型表现出谄媚现象：优先考虑顺从而非正确性。当前的解决方法评估推理结果：强化学习通过奖励正确答案，自我修正批评输出。所有方法都需要真实数据，而在推理过程中往往不可用且容易受到相同偏见的影响。我们探索评估推理过程本身。受控因果锚定（RCA）验证输出是否遵循其推理轨迹，而无需真实数据。谄媚表现为轨迹-输出不一致：模型得出一个答案但输出另一个以取悦用户。RCA检测这种不一致，实现0%的谄媚现象同时接受88%的有效提示。我们识别出两种传统结果评估无法发现的失败：反向缩放（前沿模型更倾向于谄媚因为理性化需要能力）和最终输出差距（正确推理 precedes �说谎输出）。传统自我修正将这些失败降至7-9%但无法消除它们因为模型用相同的偏见批评自己。RCA的过程评估在推理过程中进行，不需要真实数据，并使用一个独立的评判者打破自我强化的偏见循环：这三个特性是结果评估所缺乏的。
英文摘要：
Large Language Models exhibit sycophancy: prioritizing agreeableness over correctness. Current remedies evaluate reasoning outcomes: RLHF rewards correct answers, self-correction critiques outputs. All require ground truth, which is often unavailable at inference time and vulnerable to the same biases. We explore evaluating the reasoning process instead. Regulated Causal Anchoring (RCA) verifies whether outputs follow from their reasoning traces, without requiring ground truth. Sycophancy manifests as trace-output inconsistency: models derive one answer but output another to please users. RCA detects this inconsistency, achieving 0.0% sycophancy while accepting 88% of valid hints. We identify two failures invisible to outcome evaluation: Inverse Scaling (frontier models sycophant more because rationalization requires capability) and the Final Output Gap (correct reasoning precedes sycophantic output). Traditional self-correction reduces these failures to 7-9% but cannot eliminate them because the model critiques itself with the same biases. RCA's process evaluation operates at inference time, requires no ground truth, and uses an independent judge that breaks the self-reinforcing bias loop: three properties that outcome evaluation lacks.
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