提出策略遮蔽方法，可训练后抑制智能体说谎行为而不影响其性能。
Strategy Masking: A Method for Guardrails in Value-based Reinforcement Learning Agents
- 通过策略遮蔽显式学习并压制智能体的不良行为
- 在不降低任务表现的前提下有效抑制训练后说谎行为
- 适用于需要道德约束的决策类AI系统
当前强化学习范式依赖奖励函数来引导智能体的学习与决策；然而，若奖励函数设计不当，智能体可能学会“不可取”或“不道德”的行为。由于缺乏对奖励函数所产生激励的深入理解，难以建立既合理又通用的控制机制。本文研究基于奖励函数的智能体的防护机制，提出一种名为策略遮蔽的新方法，用于显式学习并抑制智能体的不良行为。我们将该方法应用于研究智能体说谎问题，结果表明：可在不损害智能体任务执行能力的前提下，有效抑制其训练后的说谎行为。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The use of reward functions to structure AI learning and decision making is core to the current reinforcement learning paradigm; however, without careful design of reward functions, agents can learn to solve problems in ways that may be considered "undesirable" or "unethical." Without thorough understanding of the incentives a reward function creates, it can be difficult to impose principled yet general control mechanisms over its behavior. In this paper, we study methods for constructing guardrails for AI agents that use reward functions to learn decision making. We introduce a novel approach, which we call strategy masking, to explicitly learn and then suppress undesirable AI agent behavior. We apply our method to study lying in AI agents and show that it can be used to effectively modify agent behavior by suppressing lying post-training without compromising agent ability to perform effectively.
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