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New benchmark MIST evaluates LLM trust in external signals

Researchers have introduced MIST, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well language models can selectively trust external signals. The benchmark presents reasoning items under four conditions: clean, misleading, correct-context, and irrelevant-context. A new metric, SC2W, measures how often a misleading signal causes a correct answer to become wrong. The proposed SCOPE method uses Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to train models on failures across all four conditions, significantly reducing susceptibility to misleading information while maintaining accuracy with trustworthy context. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more reliable AI systems that can better discern trustworthy information from misleading signals.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xian Sun, Wei Chow, Yingshuo Wang, Junhao Liu, Wei Gao, Qing Wu, Lingdong Kong ·

    Learning When to Trust via Selective Context Preference Optimization

    arXiv:2608.06377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models increasingly condition their answers on external signals, and a single misleading one can turn a correct answer wrong. The obvious remedy, training models to resist such signals, hides a failure mode: a model that …

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Learning When to Trust via Selective Context Preference Optimization

    Language models increasingly condition their answers on external signals, and a single misleading one can turn a correct answer wrong. The obvious remedy, training models to resist such signals, hides a failure mode: a model that ignores all context looks robust yet is useless wh…