Abstain-R1:通过可验证强化学习实现校准拒答与拒答后澄清
阅读原文· arxiv.orgAbstain-R1 基于 3B 参数模型,采用澄清感知的可验证强化学习奖励机制训练,在保持可回答问题性能的同时,对无法回答的查询执行显式拒绝并说明关键缺失信息。在 Abstain-Test、Abstain-QA 和 SelfAware 基准测试中,该模型相比基础模型显著提升,拒答与澄清行为达到 DeepSeek-R1 等更大系统的水平,表明校准拒答能力可通过可验证奖励有效习得。
Reinforcement fine-tuning improves the reasoning ability of large language models, but it can also encourage them to answer unanswerable queries by guessing or hallucinating missing information. Existing abstention methods either train models to produce generic refusals or encourage follow-up clarifications without verifying whether those clarifications identify the key missing information. We study queries that are clear in meaning but cannot be reliably resolved from the given information, and argue that a reliable model should not only abstain, but also explain what is missing. We propose a clarification-aware RLVR reward that, while rewarding correct answers on answerable queries, jointly optimizes explicit abstention and semantically aligned post-refusal clarification on unanswerable queries. Using this reward, we train Abstain-R1, a 3B model that improves abstention and clarification on unanswerable queries while preserving strong performance on answerable ones. Experiments on Abstain-Test, Abstain-QA, and SelfAware show that Abstain-R1 substantially improves over its base model and achieves unanswerable-query behavior competitive with larger systems including DeepSeek-R1, suggesting that calibrated abstention and clarification can be learned through verifiable rewards rather than emerging from scale alone.