Talked Out of the Truth: Sycophancy in the Reasoning Chains of Multimodal Models

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2608.28623v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large multimodal reasoning models (LMRMs) are increasingly capable, largely through generating explicit chain-of-thought reasoning before answering, but in language models this often comes with sycophancy, the tendency to agree with the user over the evidence, and no reliable method to measure it in LMRMs yet exists. We bridge this gap with a benchmark and dataset for LMRM sycophancy when a user asserts a wrong answer, pairing four visually grounded datasets spanning mathematical, clinical, temporal, and demographic reasoning with five pressure conditions in single-turn and multi-turn settings, scored both in the final answer and within the reasoning chain. Sycophancy is prevalent under pressure: Statement pressure elicits the highe