arXiv:2509.24660cs.AI2025-09

智能体通过误解也能协调,但难被发现且无法与新人合作。

Successful Misunderstandings: Learning to Coordinate Without Being Understood

  • 智能体在无共同观察下靠信号互动,自行发展出新语言。
  • 虽能成功协调,但双方对信号理解可能完全不同。
  • 需至少三者互训才可形成共享理解,否则误解难修复。

评估沟通效果通常以是否促成协调为标准。若多人能通过沟通协调,通常认为彼此理解。我们研究了一个信号博弈场景,其中个体发展出新信号词汇来实现协调。在此设定中,个体仅能观测通信信号和交互结果(即获得的奖励),无法看到他人如何使用信号。该设置用于模拟感知差异极大的群体间通信,例如人类与人工智能混合群体。智能体自主生成信号、使用并修正解释,却无法观察对方使用情况。尽管群体最终均收敛至最优协调水平,但某些情况下,互动双方对信号的理解存在偏差,达到我们称为‘成功误解’的状态。然而,依赖非对齐解释进行协调的智能体,无法与新伙伴建立有效协作。这种误解不会立即导致失败,难以察觉也难修复。只有当至少三个智能体相互交互时,才能确保共享解释的出现。在此条件下,群体表现出补偿缺乏信号使用共观的能力,从而促进共享解释的涌现。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The main approach to evaluating communication is by assessing how well it facilitates coordination. If two or more individuals can coordinate through communication, it is generally assumed that they understand one another. We investigate this assumption in a signaling game where individuals develop a new vocabulary of signals to coordinate successfully. In our game, the individuals do not have common observations besides the communication signal and outcome of the interaction, i.e. received reward. This setting is used as a proxy to study communication emergence in populations of agents that perceive their environment very differently, e.g. hybrid populations that include humans and artificial agents. Agents develop signals, use them, and refine interpretations while not observing how other agents are using them. While populations always converge to optimal levels of coordination, in some cases, interacting agents interpret and use signals differently, converging to what we call successful misunderstandings. However, agents of population that coordinate using misaligned interpretations, are unable to establish successful coordination with new interaction partners. Not leading to coordination failure immediately, successful misunderstandings are difficult to spot and repair. Having at least three agents that all interact with each other are the two minimum conditions to ensure the emergence of shared interpretations. Under these conditions, the agent population exhibits this emergent property of compensating for the lack of shared observations of signal use, ensuring the emergence of shared interpretations.

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