AI后训练能力缺失的实证分析

What is Missing from AI Post-Training AI: An Empirical Analysis

精选理由

OpenAI做了关于大模型后训练的研究,能分析训练策略问题,和以前方法比效果不一样。

AI 摘要

针对大型语言模型(LLM)后训练,研究发现其训练策略常锁定初始选择;分析公开数据后发现,训练预算多用于局部调整而非策略修订;干预实验显示,增加经验或指导仅提升执行效果,未改变策略;不同任务上的计算投入效果存在明显差异。

原文 · arXiv cs.LG

What is Missing from AI Post-Training AI: An Empirical Analysis

Large language model (LLM) agents can now post-train an LLM end-to-end. They can write code, launch training, evaluate checkpoints, and improve downstream performance, raising the prospect of AI-for-AI. We argue that this picture conflates two distinct capabilities: execution-level capability, iterating within a selected training strategy; and strategy-level capability, revising the high-level judgment as experimental evidence accumulates. Analyzing a large corpus of publicly released post-training trajectories, we find that across different tasks, the agent's training strategy is locked in at the very beginning, and the entire remaining budget is spent on local adjustments within the selected strategy. We then examine three natural explanations--missing experience, missing guidance, and insufficient reasoning--with escalating interventions. Extensive experiments show that (1) an experience-driven scaffold improves execution across the board (+12.6 points on GSM8K and +40.8 on HumanEval) but leaves the strategy static; (2) human guidance effectively redirects the initial strategy, yet the agent falls back into local adjustment loops once training starts; and (3) additional inference compute pays off on easier tasks but yields almost no gain on the hardest one. In conclusion, what agents lack is neither experience, guidance, nor reasoning compute, but a mechanism for spontaneously reevaluating their strategy during execution.

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