Calibrated Enough论文揭示LLM智能体如何被虚假证据误导,以及如何通过微调修复这一缺陷。
研究显示,当LLM智能体面对专业外观的市场面板时,对不可预测问题的承诺率从6.5%跃升至54.0%。即使面板上的所有数字都是虚构的,承诺率仍从24.5%上升到36.8%,与真实数据产生的37.6%无显著差异。同一模型在可回答问题上准确率接近完美,表明问题不在于能力或信念,而在于行动决策机制。
Calibrated Enough to Know, Not Calibrated to Act: Fabricated Evidence Makes LLM Agents Commit to the Unknowable
An LLM agent shown a professional-looking market panel commits to a directional call on a provably unpredictable question far more often than one asked the bare question: across 12 frontier models, commitment rises from 6.5% to 54.0% as evidence is escalated. It commits just as readily when every number on the panel is invented: fabricating the entire display, so nothing the model can see is true except the question itself, still lifts commitment from 24.5% to 36.8%, statistically indistinguishable from the 37.6% produced by genuine market data. What unlocks confident action is not information but the authority of its packaging. The failure is narrow and locatable. Incapacity is not the answer: on matched answerable questions attached to the same panels, the same models answer essentially always, at near-perfect accuracy. Nor is it belief - stated probabilities barely move across the gradient that swings action by 48 points, and score worse than a climatological baseline. Missing judgment isn't it either: asked to classify a question's knowability before acting, models call it irreducible 90% of the time and then commit on just 0.4% of those. The act/don't-act gate is what fails, and the effect is concentrated in a few models rather than universal. Because the gate is separable, it can be trained. Supervised fine-tuning of a 3B model on 540 synthetic cases, predominantly dice, coins, jars and timers, drives commitment to 0.0% on the original cases and transfers to three unseen domains. It does not survive everything: the gate holds exactly when the response format leaves room to reason, and rigid formats that remove that room leave the model confident and wrong on questions it otherwise answers correctly. The gate is trainable and context-fragile, and deployment needs both halves of that sentence.