arXiv:2506.09390cs.AIcs.GT2025-06被引 12

对比大模型与人类在博弈中的有限理性行为

Beyond Nash Equilibrium: Bounded Rationality of LLMs and humans in Strategic Decision-making

  • 用人类博弈实验直接测试大模型决策模式
  • 模型复制人类直觉但反应更僵化,适应性差
  • 适合研究人工智能与人类决策差异的学者

大型语言模型在战略决策场景中日益普及,但研究表明它们与人类一样常表现出非完全理性的特征。本研究采用行为博弈论的经典实验范式,直接比较大模型与人类在石剪布和囚徒困境两种经典博弈中的表现。结果显示,大模型复现了人类常见的启发式策略,如根据结果调整策略、未来有互动时更倾向合作,但执行更机械,对环境动态变化的敏感度更低。模型层面分析揭示了其战略行为具有独特的架构特征,即使具备推理能力的模型在动态情境下仍难以找到有效策略。这表明当前大模型仅部分模拟人类的有限理性,亟需改进训练方法以增强对手建模灵活性和上下文感知能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models are increasingly used in strategic decision-making settings, yet evidence shows that, like humans, they often deviate from full rationality. In this study, we compare LLMs and humans using experimental paradigms directly adapted from behavioral game-theory research. We focus on two well-studied strategic games, Rock-Paper-Scissors and the Prisoner's Dilemma, which are well known for revealing systematic departures from rational play in human subjects. By placing LLMs in identical experimental conditions, we evaluate whether their behaviors exhibit the bounded rationality characteristic of humans. Our findings show that LLMs reproduce familiar human heuristics, such as outcome-based strategy switching and increased cooperation when future interaction is possible, but they apply these rules more rigidly and demonstrate weaker sensitivity to the dynamic changes in the game environment. Model-level analyses reveal distinctive architectural signatures in strategic behavior, and even reasoning models sometimes struggle to find effective strategies in adaptive situations. These results indicate that current LLMs capture only a partial form of human-like bounded rationality and highlight the need for training methods that encourage flexible opponent modeling and stronger context awareness.

博弈论大模型行为有限理性

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